No, it can't.
A never evolving PvE game cannot become popular.
Esp not if you ask a monthly fee for it. Look at all the complaints about content drought right now. Do you honestly believe it would look different on one of these classic servers after 2 years?
If so, I have a nice bridge to sell you.
So much this ^^. People have the right to talk about things they like, but when there have been so many posters on this forum & sometimes even on retail's trade chat about how the game has become horrible and vanilla was so glorious time after time again it gets really old after awhile. Thus, as a result, I take some humor in seeing the doomsayers' dreams of vanilla glory dashed. It would have been more tolerable if they weren't spouting as often as they did.
Doesn't matter what they have, the people gave it to them, for the product they offered. When that product stopped offering them what they wanted in a game they quit playing. Success is hard to grasp I know, but you didn't give them the swimming pool full of money, millions of people did, and millions of people still do.
You play during vanilla? Let me guess day 1 alpha right? even if you played since launch to the release of TBC you have paid them like 400 dollars? Lol, smallest swimming pool ever!
you mean like this?: https://www.worldofcorecraft.com/con...out-nostalrius
I'm fairly sure that the "General population" are simply more interested in the official retail than privately run servers. Or will we soon be seeing people making claims how Classic, aside from taking "TRUE SKILL" to master classes and raids, also takes "TRUE SKILL" to setup...
What WoD private servers? How could people prefer to go play something that doesn't exist? You're making shit up to justify your belief that Blizzard is some super arrogant and vain company that's holding vanilla servers back out of spite.
There's still no evidence that a significant amount of people are out there that are willing to pay to play for a classic server. Sorry. If Nost had charged even a dollar a month, its numbers would have plummeted.
The numbers are inflated, because we are in the US. There are 5.4 million subs, but not in the US alone. That is counting ALL regions. KR/EU/CH/BZ/US/RU that is counting every region, there are 5.4 million sub.
ALSO. They count sub, based on criteria like gametime card, banned accounts with game time, free month accounts when you buy the base game or battle chest. It's inflated. Sorry, but there are surely ways to inflate many things, and still not lie about it. Entirely different things.
This is exactly what happened with Runescape. They kept shutting down private legacy servers until finally they polled the players and enough people voted for them to open legacy servers. Now the RS2007 servers have more people than the current ones.
This is what Blizzard should do.
As I said before, Blizzard isn't going to be much interested in supporting something of this scale for a theoretical audience of a few hundred thousand. And that number is up to question if it costs extra to access it. I'm not saying that Nost wasn't successful. It was. That's probably why it got closed. And even given 800K registered accounts, after a year, the number of active accounts had dropped to 150K, a little under 20% retention over the course of a year for a free and reportedly well-run server. Blizzard will absolutely think that's not worth bothering about.
"...money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it."
To you and all of the folks with your mindset which is "how dare blizzard" "greedy blizzard"...."they are scared a little operation could do so good without them that's why they closed it down"....and all that nonsense..
First - I get it you have lots of fun and that fun was ended so you are all very emotional and upset. Ok fine we are all humans we know how that is. But in some cases people have written very nasty about this issue (I think one loooooong write up even stated people that don't understand are "virgin morons")....I mean some people are breathing fire over this which is so outside of anything logical I can't understand the thought. Anyway because of how nasty and irrational some are being over this I therefore make the educated guess a lot of you are young folks, that would explain the immature reaction for one, second it would explain your complete ignorance of business law which leads to second point....
Second - Blizzard is fully justified 100% and is not even slightly in the wrong for shutting down Nostralius. They own the IP (Intellectual Property) of World of Warcraft, its their property. How does that alone not explain everything to the people raging? Well because of what I mentioned in the First part above -- emotional,immaturity and illogical thought.
Someone said "how was theft committed Nostralius didn't make money off it"..... That comment scared me....scared me that there's people so uneducated on an issue that they think theft is only when there is a financial loss from one party off of another.. Theft is , in very simple terms "I own THIS, you took IT without my permission...." Legally that is theft. Note the example had NOTHING to do with you making money off of it at all.. simply it wasn't yours and you took it.
Anyone who holds this in a negative light against blizzard -- I'm sorry but those people are mindless, uneducated, immature idiots.
And that's all I have to say on the Nostralius issue.
PS. You folks do know that every single private server of WoW is illegal right? I mean do you at least understand that blizzard has never licensed, authorized or endorsed the use of their IP to be used by an independent entity to run WoW servers? Technically Blizzard could go through the internet tonight and have legal cause to shut down every private server in existence and they would be fully justified.
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Why is this topic over 200 pages long when in other threads, any sort of mention of private server would result in it being locked?
Yeah that is what I find amusing about people who think Vanilla WoW servers like Nost would sell. A CRAPLOAD of people complain about content drought, which I find justifiable, so why would a game with no updates to anything new have much success? Sure, these servers could expand to include TBC, Wotlk, and onward, but that still isn't new, thus the plague of no new content would still be overarching.
This also brings me to my next point about why Blizzard was smart about shutting this server down. Technically if a group of people running a private server were motivated and skilled enough they could thereotically extend private Vanillra servers to include other older expansions just right up to whatever expac was currently running. In essence private servers could have a free version of the game that only excluded the current expansion that was running, possibly even allowing characters from a private Vanilla to transfer to a private TBC, to a privite Wrath... you get the idea. Why would anyone think that Blizzard would keep even a particle of something like this happening in the near, or far, future. A free version of their game's expansions full of a community that doesn't officially support their own product?