At this point Blizzard is in the position where they have to either open vanilla servers or just admit forever they are nothing but money hungry corporate sellouts that give absolutely zero fuks about their fans.
Good vid, well done. A major company sighing off on a project is like an astrological event, all the planets have to be in proper order before things can proceed. Meaning a lot of people have to review it and approve it in accordance to corporate politics. Hopefully things will continue to go well with such a project.
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Even if Mike may agree it does not mean that these servers are going to happen. It is obvious that they are open to the idea but between agreeing to meet and actually doing it is such a huge gap and companies like these do have concerns no private server operator is going to face.
There were quite a few people that seem to think that the Nostalrius had some upper hand owning the code and such but I think these were really not the concerns that Mike had and his real problem is not the private server people at all. In the end Blizzard will if they decide to do this probably go their own people and cannibalize some ideas and work off what archives which they must have in some dusty warehouse.
The one thing I agree with is when he talked about the quality of the product they put out. That I think is a question of pride. I mean look at Overwatch everything Blizzard does has that mark of quality and no way are they going to do this unless they can assure that. This is non negotiable. It is fine and dandy to put out crap stuff when you're running a private server but Blizzard "no way Jose".
I can see where people will say well to hell with quality when your core game has deteriorated so much that the levelling experience is but a shadow of what it once was and hardly challenging at all. This is what they should be changing and granted this should be their focus but they will never put out a sub par product and even if the concept is something they wholeheartedly agree with they will never do this half ass.
Thanks for posting that vid. Blizzard does have a lot on their plate, but I don't think they should let this pot simmer too long.
Also, pretty sure they did get Blizzard's attention. Maybe it wasn't the sigs that did it, but like Mark said, Mike already knows about the vanila movement. There's enough there to talk about it. I'm not sure why people care to debate that point when the CEO is at least mulling it over.
i think they are scared players will enjoy vanilla more than live , well obviously thats already the case unless you started around cata + and are oblivious to how awesome sauce classic wow was
i think they are scared players will enjoy vanilla more than live , well obviously thats already the case unless you started around cata + and are oblivious to how awesome sauce classic wow was
First of all, if they're making money, why would they be worried?
That being said, this petition probably got more signatures than the majority of game petitions I've seen. I think it managed to get, probably, 100 times the signatures of any SWG petition. Plus they had like nearly 1 million accounts, and 150k active players. Put that on a sanctioned server? Shoot, you might get 1 or 2 million active players.
Nothing scary about that except the fact that they're throwing away money, lol.
At this point Blizzard is in the position where they have to either open vanilla servers or just admit forever they are nothing but money hungry corporate sellouts that give absolutely zero fuks about their fans.
Or that they care more about the people currently playing WoW than the ones no longer playing.
Time spent implementing these servers is time spent not working on the current game.
Its funny how you accuse them of being money hungry by not participating on what has shown in EQ to be an effective cash grab.
Vanilla servers are a waste of time. UNLESS they do something more revolutionary, like re-imagine post vanilla WoW. A WoW 2 of sorts, with vanilla WoW being the start point. I like stories where I don't know what happens the next chapter far more than ones I do.
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Signatures mean nothing, should of setup a kickstarter and gave that money to blizzard to make it. Then they would of listened.
If people won't put their money where their mouth is then Blizzard are correct in that they don't really want it.
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There were quite a few people that seem to think that the Nostalrius had some upper hand owning the code and such but I think these were really not the concerns that Mike had and his real problem is not the private server people at all. In the end Blizzard will if they decide to do this probably go their own people and cannibalize some ideas and work off what archives which they must have in some dusty warehouse.
The one thing I agree with is when he talked about the quality of the product they put out. That I think is a question of pride. I mean look at Overwatch everything Blizzard does has that mark of quality and no way are they going to do this unless they can assure that. This is non negotiable. It is fine and dandy to put out crap stuff when you're running a private server but Blizzard "no way Jose".
I can see where people will say well to hell with quality when your core game has deteriorated so much that the levelling experience is but a shadow of what it once was and hardly challenging at all. This is what they should be changing and granted this should be their focus but they will never put out a sub par product and even if the concept is something they wholeheartedly agree with they will never do this half ass.
Anyone can sign the petition. People with no intention of ever playing a WoW legacy server or WoW at all could sign the petition.
You won't get Blizzard's attention with an online petition just lip service.
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Also, pretty sure they did get Blizzard's attention. Maybe it wasn't the sigs that did it, but like Mark said, Mike already knows about the vanila movement. There's enough there to talk about it. I'm not sure why people care to debate that point when the CEO is at least mulling it over.
First of all, if they're making money, why would they be worried?
That being said, this petition probably got more signatures than the majority of game petitions I've seen. I think it managed to get, probably, 100 times the signatures of any SWG petition. Plus they had like nearly 1 million accounts, and 150k active players. Put that on a sanctioned server? Shoot, you might get 1 or 2 million active players.
Nothing scary about that except the fact that they're throwing away money, lol.
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Time spent implementing these servers is time spent not working on the current game.
Its funny how you accuse them of being money hungry by not participating on what has shown in EQ to be an effective cash grab.
Vanilla servers are a waste of time. UNLESS they do something more revolutionary, like re-imagine post vanilla WoW. A WoW 2 of sorts, with vanilla WoW being the start point. I like stories where I don't know what happens the next chapter far more than ones I do.
1. Can make a profit that will be worth talking about at the quartly.
2. Wont, so no go.