No Vanilla Servers to be Announced at Blizzcon

SBFord

No Vanilla Servers to be Announced at Blizzcon

World of Warcraft News - After not so subtly hinting around by the Nostalrius "Private Server" group that Blizzard may be getting ready to announce World of Warcraft classic, or vanilla, servers at this year's Blizzcon, J. Allen Brack has taken to the official forums to squash that rumor.

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SBFord

To the surprise of no one. If the Nostalrius people ever want to play any further part in the implementation of vanilla servers, threatening Blizzard with releasing the server code is a goofy way to go about it. *facepalm*

Scorchien

Ne news here, this was already known , Like i said before when this topic got heated here , Blizz would first release Legion and gather data for a year before they ever even consider, Vanilla , French-Vanilla , Vanilla-Swirled or any other flavor of Vanilla your mind can concoct.

DarLorkar

Did or does anyone really expect them to? Adding servers that they need to run a completely different game, and bug fix, update, and patch and expand... I just do not see that happening.

Nixeska

We've got decent content coming in decent time for once and the WoW team is already taking more hits, I don't see why anyone currently playing would want to risk that by having members shifted to tend to legacy servers.

Xingbairong

Tbh I think that Blizzard is quite happy at the moment with how Legion is developing and they probably decided, for now at least that they don't need the Vanilla servers. I imagine they will wait few more months before they can make a firm decision if they have to venture that road or not.
I'm 99% confident that if they released Vanilla servers they will get at least 1-2 mil more subs right away. I personally have at least 10 friends who don't play WoW anymore, but are more than willing to start playing on an official Vanilla/TBC servers.

SBFord

Scorchien said:

Ne news here, this was already known , Like i said before when this topic got heated here , Blizz would first release Legion and gather data for a year before they ever even consider, Vanilla , French-Vanilla , Vanilla-Swirled or any other flavor of Vanilla your mind can concoct.

Yep but the new "fly in the ointment" is the threat by the Nostalrius team that they'll release the code. It worked once. I don't think it'll work again. Bad play on their part, I think.

Like all big businesses, Blizzard moves slowly and to think that they would get going on a project the complexity that the vanilla servers represents in the same year as an expansion is wishful thinking.

SBFord

DMKano said:

"To the surprise of no one" -SBFord



Perfect comment

It's because of the Bee Gees thing the other day, isn't it?

Kunai_Vax

Kind of saw this coming. Nostalrius shouldnt have made that threat to be honest. If blizzard was going to to start some kind of legacy server then it would have already been in the works so threatening them a month before blizcon was never going change anything.
I love the idea of a legacy server, but 12years of playing warcraft has taught me that blizzard always doubles down on any bad decisions they make. Always.
Threatening them has probably ensured they will never look at legacy servers simply because of their own hubris.

Lawlmonster

Not a huge problem. I can still play vanilla on about half a dozen servers with varying populations, I'm sure there are more that are less popular, so this doesn't effect me. Really only effects Blizzard.

Forgrimm

SBFord said:

To the surprise of no one. If the Nostalrius people ever want to play any further part in the implementation of vanilla servers, threatening Blizzard with releasing the server code is a goofy way to go about it. *facepalm*

Yeah that was pretty dumb. And if Nos does try to open shop again, I'm pretty sure that Blizz won't be so cordial about it this time.

kitarad

Nostalrius were dumb if they truly cared about vanilla servers they should have handed Blizzard the code. Dumb move by selfish thieves.

kitarad

Lawlmonster said:

Not a huge problem. I can still play vanilla on about half a dozen servers with varying populations, I'm sure there are more that are less popular, so this doesn't effect me. Really only effects Blizzard.

They'll just shut your server down and all the time and effort you spent playing and building your characters will go down the drain.... good for you.

waynejr2

Are they giving everyone a new car?  They didn't announce they are not going to do that.  What other things they are not going to do are they going to announce? 

Kunai_Vax

kitarad said:

Nostalrius were dumb if they truly cared about vanilla servers they should have handed Blizzard the code. Dumb move by selfish thieves.

Dont really follow..
How would giving blizzard the code have helped? Any reasons involved in blizzards decisions on this matter would have all been financial. 

Kunai_Vax

waynejr2 said:

Are they giving everyone a new car?  They didn't announce they are not going to do that.  What other things they are not going to do are they going to announce? 

They made this statement because there has been a lot of talk about it on the official forums. 
They asked players on the official forum what questions they would want answering in the Q&A during blizcon and the biggest request by far on the forums was regarding legacy servers. 

waynejr2

dies0mnium said:

waynejr2 said:

Are they giving everyone a new car?  They didn't announce they are not going to do that.  What other things they are not going to do are they going to announce? 

They made this statement because there has been a lot of talk about it on the official forums. 
They asked players on the official forum what questions they would want answering in the Q&A during blizcon and the biggest request by far on the forums was regarding legacy servers. 

Lighten up Francis.

Kunai_Vax

waynejr2 said:

dies0mnium said:

waynejr2 said:

Are they giving everyone a new car?  They didn't announce they are not going to do that.  What other things they are not going to do are they going to announce? 

They made this statement because there has been a lot of talk about it on the official forums. 
They asked players on the official forum what questions they would want answering in the Q&A during blizcon and the biggest request by far on the forums was regarding legacy servers. 

Lighten up Francis.

Right back at you. 

Thupli

SBFord said:

To the surprise of no one. If the Nostalrius people ever want to play any further part in the implementation of vanilla servers, threatening Blizzard with releasing the server code is a goofy way to go about it. *facepalm*

They have not threatened to release the code since they took it down. They threatened to talk about what they discussed with blizzard recently. Read their post on their website, avoid your own bias when reporting: profit.

SBFord

Thupli said:

SBFord said:

To the surprise of no one. If the Nostalrius people ever want to play any further part in the implementation of vanilla servers, threatening Blizzard with releasing the server code is a goofy way to go about it. *facepalm*

They have not threatened to release the code since they took it down. They threatened to talk about what they discussed with blizzard recently. Read their post on their website, avoid your own bias when reporting: profit.

*shrug* The language of the letter they posted to the forum was purposely obtuse and wide open to a number of interpretations. I guess we'll see what happens during and shortly after Blizzcon.

Lawlmonster

kitarad said:

Lawlmonster said:

Not a huge problem. I can still play vanilla on about half a dozen servers with varying populations, I'm sure there are more that are less popular, so this doesn't effect me. Really only effects Blizzard.

They'll just shut your server down and all the time and effort you spent playing and building your characters will go down the drain.... good for you.

Not really a huge concern. They're pretty slow going forward, if what they're actually trying to do is shut these places down. Some of them have been up since before Nostralius was closed, some are newer, and I don't have a problem with starting over again.

sedatedkarma

Thupli said:

SBFord said:

To the surprise of no one. If the Nostalrius people ever want to play any further part in the implementation of vanilla servers, threatening Blizzard with releasing the server code is a goofy way to go about it. *facepalm*

They have not threatened to release the code since they took it down. They threatened to talk about what they discussed with blizzard recently. Read their post on their website, avoid your own bias when reporting: profit.

Agreed. I find it quite offensive that this is taken out of context.

Letter threatening to release code - Before the meeting with Blizzard


WTF MMORPG.COM!!

Nanfoodle

Not until Blizzard can figure out how to make money from this at a level that would make a profit. Why would they move forward. I think they are asking to much.

SBFord

sedatedkarma said:

Thupli said:

SBFord said:

To the surprise of no one. If the Nostalrius people ever want to play any further part in the implementation of vanilla servers, threatening Blizzard with releasing the server code is a goofy way to go about it. *facepalm*

They have not threatened to release the code since they took it down. They threatened to talk about what they discussed with blizzard recently. Read their post on their website, avoid your own bias when reporting: profit.

Agreed. I find it quite offensive that this is taken out of context.
Letter threatening to release code - Before the meeting with Blizzard
WTF MMORPG.COM!!

The quotation was placed into the full article exactly as it was written in the linked forum post. It was not taken out of context and it is purposely ambiguous with no further clarification about what their intentions are.

Thupli

SBFord said:

sedatedkarma said:

Thupli said:

SBFord said:

To the surprise of no one. If the Nostalrius people ever want to play any further part in the implementation of vanilla servers, threatening Blizzard with releasing the server code is a goofy way to go about it. *facepalm*

They have not threatened to release the code since they took it down. They threatened to talk about what they discussed with blizzard recently. Read their post on their website, avoid your own bias when reporting: profit.

Agreed. I find it quite offensive that this is taken out of context.
Letter threatening to release code - Before the meeting with Blizzard
WTF MMORPG.COM!!

The quotation was placed into the full article exactly as it was written in the linked forum post. It was not taken out of context and it is purposely ambiguous with no further clarification about what their intentions are.

No, you went back to the original Nostalrius post before they ever had met with Blizzard, pulling it extremely out of context.  It is misleading journalism and smacks of complete bias and inability to clearly relate the truth of the story.

There have been multiple posts on the Nostalrius website since that clearly convey they are NOT releasing the code, but talking about how Blizzard is now able to get past some of the issues that held them up.

The story is because people are wondering if they will learn more about this development and legacy servers, yet you try to spin it as a "Blizzard wont give in to threats".  Talk about a mix of stories to make your point; SHEESH!

Thupli

SBFord said:

To the surprise of no one. If the Nostalrius people ever want to play any further part in the implementation of vanilla servers, threatening Blizzard with releasing the server code is a goofy way to go about it. *facepalm*

Quoting this to make sure no editing.  You are very clear on your point about making this somehow link to first time that they threaten to release the code... doing your best to conflate this announcement to some new threat to release the code.