theres always 2 sides to theses stories. and we normally hear the story of the little guy. Im sure blizzard had good reasons for shutting it down. Brings AM2R to mind and how Nintendo announced the new metro 2 last month shortly after AM2R was killed. IDK this is always tough.
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Blizzard shuts down legacy WoW server hours after launch
- Thread starter LordOfLore
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I mean, Blizz has made the story pretty well known. They're literally running the game right now still. Free versions of the game (and usually ones that charge money since that's how they stay afloat, these 'free' servers have all sorts of scammery going on), even an older version of it, is not something that you want running alongside your legitimate version of the game.
Because russia doesn't give a fuck about American companies rights.
I mean sad for the guy that build
but at this point i am asking myself, if its not nostalgia as people are arguing, and blizzard is not making legacy servers despite there been a considrible ammount of a market, is there a reason why nobody is making a mmo in the spirit of vanilla wow?
but at this point i am asking myself, if its not nostalgia as people are arguing, and blizzard is not making legacy servers despite there been a considrible ammount of a market, is there a reason why nobody is making a mmo in the spirit of vanilla wow?
Azure Dream
Member
What if Blizzard required you had an active WoW subscription to play the fan server?
PrinnyBomb
Member
The question you all should be asking is, why WOULDNT Blizzard do anything about it?
Sax Russel
Banned
lol
Chuck Norris
Banned
Oh you want to play vanillla WoW but there is no way to do it? Ohhh that sucks
Shadowhaxor
Member
Yeah. They don't want you to do it!
WaterAstro
Member
So fucking high on their horses.
Yes, I do want to spam LFG instead of pushing a button. It's called community interaction. The LFG and LFR system killed it.
Kite
Member
I remember reading that Wildstar supposed to be sorta in the spirit of vanilla WoW, or WoW done right. I never played old WoW, but Wildstar didn't really impress me.
Blizzard's position is that they can't allow these private servers because it weakens their IP rights. They won't do official legacy servers because they don't think its worth the opportunity cost. They seem more interested in finding out exactly what these people loved about vanilla and doing what they can to recreate it in the modern game.
Lancelot
Member
This is an easy task, just delete all content made after TBC was released.
I think the issue is that there are a non-zero number of people currently playing Legion and paying for WoW that would love to have legacy servers, but still play current WoW regardless. As such, if a private server goes up, (especially if it is free) these players might stop playing live WoW and instead go there. It isn't like the only people who would play legacy servers are people who want no other WoW experience. So leaving legacy servers up does cost blizz money and hurts their current product, regardless of whether they have their own legacy servers or not.
Do I wish they would just say fuck the money and allow the servers to stay up regardless of potential losses? Definitely, players wanting legacy stuff deserve something to play. But I don't pretend to know the full legal implications of something like that, nor am I a business that has to consider things like investor opinions on the matter.
At the same time, as a current WoW player I can't say that I want blizzard to spend any time or resources on their own legacy servers, since it would directly compete with resources towards what I enjoy (current live WoW), and blizz has proved in the past that they already have issues delivering content at an appropriate pace without worrying about legacy stuff. In addition, I've said before but I think the number of players that play on legacy servers that are free because of nostalgia is far from 100% of the players that would play on legacy servers for a price because of nostalgia.
franklyshankly
Member
To be honest I don't. I know i'm in a minority here, but I really want servers that start at vanilla and progress through the expansions, but I want all the quality of life improvements from over the years.
People hate on things like map markers, but all we used to do was look up on thottbot and go to exact coords with a mod anyway. Other things like the tooltip showing if a mob was one you needed to kill was something that came from mods in the past. LFG is much maligned but I honestly wouldn't want to go back to waiting in ironforge for an hour for a group, then trying to run all the way to SM only to have someone quit right as you start and then starting all over.
There are so many other little things too, like quest items being used from the tracker, mounts not being tied to physical items forever, etc.
I'd love if Blizz made servers that were vanilla but kept all those changes, but again I know everyone else here doesn't want that.