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Everquest 2 made a Time lock server for nostalga
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If World of Warcraft were reputable they would do the same. Nine million players are waiting to come back for nostalgia.
Why not ?......I feel is if I should say it again, why not ?
Greed maybe ?.......Not a good business discussion Maybe ?
What ever happened to, being for the players ?
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This isn't for you or the next 10 posters, it's about nine million others.
I would definitely play a time bound server. Now I have experienced most of the content so probably will burn out quite quickly though...
i loved levelling in vanilla wow, I would roll a horde for the first time and play that. I definitely won't be raiding or doing the insane pvp grind cause those were for no lifers back in vanilla.
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Where the hell are you even getting this "nine million" number from? You have zero credibility with that statement.
I am.
Along with 6 other co workers last winter. This winter we have 14 of us lined up to play together.
The game is very populated, and everyone is having fun
It's a made up number, just like EVERYONE ELSES GUESS.
No one is even close to knowing true populations.....That's where nine million is coming from.
And yes, millions quit !
The only drawback I can see is it would split the player base having the game live on two different patches. I would assume at the very least you would have people making fixes on the nostalgia server(s) and at the most actually have a team dedicated to possibly releasing new additions for it.
I'm not sure WoW is down far enough yet for them to make alternate server types.
There always seems to be technical reasons why they can't just like SWG.
I don't think they are doing it for greed , if as you suggest, nine million people would play.
My guess is that a lot of people would come back for a few months. . that makes it likely not worth their time to figure out what patch, server code etc. to run with and set up the server.
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There are a lot of people playing on 1.12 vanilla servers and 3.3.5 wotlk private servers.
There used to not be many options for 1.12 vanilla, but I just looked into it a few days ago and apparently there a a few large pop vanilla servers now.
I never really got into wow myself... I started playing for about a year and a half before cata launched then quit a few weeks after cata.
After cata came out I played on a Wotlk server for a few months then tried a 1.12 vanilla server for about a month.
I feel like there would be a lot of people playing if blizzard made a vanilla server.
They could even make a f2p/b2p vanilla server with a cash shop.
I personally have zero interest in WOW these days, or any mmorpg really. If i was going to play wow it would be vanilla or BC though.
Vanilla with RDF would be nice.
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I hope they use some software for software versioning and revision control (also for 3rd party software they use(d)). There can be quite some dependencies when trying to get code running from a year ago.
Well, you can do it the professional way or the ignorant way.
If a geek in a basement like myself can keep files and data from my DOS days intact and well kept... I think a big company like that could do too.
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It would be cool. But currently and in the near future I wouldn't play it.
I'd only be interested in modifiying the NPCs (AI behaviour) and game mechanics (including adding races and classes). It'd be sure fun to change things to D&D, GURPS or the Shadowrun system.
This request for vanilla servers has been around for a while. Blizzard have categorically stated that they don't have the code. They replace all existing data when they develop a new patch. There have been like a dozen official statements on this. The only way for them to run a genuine vanilla server is to do a lot of work on it. It's probably on the same level of work as making a new expansion.
Sadly at the moment no one has the original vanilla code. You can easily get hold of player clients for almost every wow version but the client side of the code is gone now. Those private servers worked on a lot of work a rounds and reverse engineering. This is why even vanilla servers are still full of bugs 10 years after wows launch.
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