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  • Blizzard is suing Nostalrius


    Not surprised but I don't expect much to come from this besides a new pop up server and history to repeat. This will only exist when Blizzard will do it themselves sadly.

    Open letter on Nostalrius's website is as followed:

    Dear community,

    For over a year, you have been part of an extraordinary journey. A journey back in the early days of our beloved game. A journey in which hundreds of thousands of people took part in together. Something that we had never seen before, either on retail or private servers. Together, we built a strong community, sharing values and a commun genuine interest for this wonderful game created by Blizzard.
    Yesterday, we received a letter of formal notice from US and french lawyers, acting on behalf of Blizzard Entertainment, preparing to stand trial against our hosting company OVH and ourselves in less than a week now. This means the de facto end of Nostalrius under its current form.
    As soon as we received this letter, we decided to inform the team and players about the future of Nostalrius, where we have all passionately committed our time and energy as volunteers.
    Nostalrius Begins PvP, Nostalrius Begins PvE & Nostalrius TBC and all related servers will be definitively shutdown at 23:00 server time on the 10th of April 2016, if our hosting company keeps the server online for that long. It feels kind of unreal, but we want to continue to serve our players as we did, and the best we can in the remaining time.
    What will happen next? This time, we have no plan for the future, and will have to rely entirely on our community and/or the private server scene.
    We know the time you spent here, the guilds you were part of, and these people with whom you have shared experiences with. We know the strength of these links, and we also know that they do not need a special WoW realm to survive. However, we will still be publicly providing everything needed in order to setup your own “Nostalrius” if you are willing to.
    Today is also the day where Nostalrius will start being community-driven in the truest sense of the word, as we will be releasing the source code, and anonymized players data (encrypting personal account data), so the community as a whole will decide the form of the future of Nostalrius. We will still be there in the background if you want us to, but will no longer take the lead.
    We also initiated an open letter addressed to Blizzard, that you can read and forward if you want. It won’t bring Nostalrius back, but it is a way to express ourselves as a community.
    Nostalrius was all about the nostalgia and memories of the glorious vanilla days. We don’t know if you truly felt like it was the glory days while playing here, but we hope that you will keep good memories of the time spent here. Once again, we can all be proud to have been part of the Nostalrius journey, no matter how much time was actually spent “in-game”.
    With our best regards,
    The whole Nostalrius team.
    Administrators, Daemon & Viper.
    Developers, Joan, Chakor, Etiakor & Cursive
    GM Team, Tyrael, Abuthar, Akasso, Benevael, Cabotage, Eragon, Ithlien, Nalorious, Nathrizyr, Pottu, Quietist, Roffeal, Same, Seshinriyu, Vaelanor & Voltog. Testing team, Nano, Fenrir, Link, Stryg, Shahkar, Clank
    Syrah in the communication team and all the other contributors who helped us during all this time, officially or unofficially.
    Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
    Albert Einstein.

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  • #2
    yea you'd think people would get the hint blizzard WILL NOT allow this, it is their intellectual property, that being said I wish they would just do it since there is a market for it
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    • #3
      they wont do it though because it will cut into expansions in the future.

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      • #4
        they could hire the team from Nos, their was a big mega thread and AMA that was very insightful on r/wow
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        • #5
          See the problem is, they make 50x1 person each expansion give or take. Having a vanilla server would possibly cut into that. Now I know you're thinking subscriptions would make up for it but the reality is they have a lot who do it via gold that isn't marketed on the quarter releases and people who always come back for new expansions. The start of expansions are always their biggest money earnings.

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          • #6
            Some more input/rant from JonTronShow about this.

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            • #7
              true kari but remember for every token bought with gold its also bought with real money so its not like the sub numbers are affected
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              • #8
                Belluar, Crendor, Boogie, and Asmongold all made videos as well
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