They are not, nor did I imply that. Nostalrius should've been absorbed under Blizzard's umbrella and made completely legitimate as it was very much different from all other private servers. Reasonable and professional staff. Non-profit. There was no mal intent.
I remember an identical case with Lineage 2. NCSoft is no apartment company either. A private server sprang up in my hometown many years ago. They were so good at what they were doing and so professional that they were eventually licensed by NCSoft and offered support.
Oh boy. That's the whole point. We are on equal footing. I'm not claiming we are morally superior.
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Reading this thread, I am genuinely interested:
Where are Blizzard fanboys getting the idea from that everyone who plays on a private server only does so because it is free? Everyone I ever met playing on Nostalrius or on the Arena-Tournament realm played live WoW for years. I myself had a subscription for 8 years. I didn't stop playing live WoW because it cost me too much money, I stopped playing it because it was no longer the game I loved. I would pay more than a normal subscription to play a Blizzard hosted Vanilla or Wotlk server because those two periods where the best in the game.
Think about it, if it was only about playing for free, why are all the popular private servers past iterations of the game? Why aren't there popular WoD private servers? Or even MoP servers? But no, nearly all servers are Vanilla, TBC or Wotlk. You have to be really delusional to believe people play on private servers because they are free.
This is where you lose me. Its just nonsense.
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When you can point me to the part where all of us said all people play on them because they are free I'll give you your credit.
Some people like free shit. Some people liked vanilla too! Perfect, both together!
Also keep throwing shit like fanboy. I'm not the one claiming the Majesty or magic of vanilla wow.
ALone the headline shows its a piece of crap
"Blizzard Erases Gaming History By Axing a Fan-Made 'World of Warcraft' Server"
#1 blizzard is crashing someone abusing their ip
#2 the server was NOT fan made as it used blizzards software
#3 Blizzard didnt axed the server but the pussy leadership decided to close it down.
#1 proves that every idiot can write an article and publish it on the internetOriginally Posted by some shit website
#2 nice how the nost teamnow acts like they are the VICTIMS while they did the CRIME
Okay thats it, from today on I tell everyone I have email correspondence with that I built spaceshipsOriginally Posted by some shit website
lead designer in his dreams maybe - he didnt design anything.....
fixed that paragraph.Originally Posted by some shit website
Everyone else except that live is evolving and so are MMOs....
ofc Blizzard did the smart thing and split the population by region - something nost didnt do and players compalined on the forum about.Originally Posted by some shit website
made up....Originally Posted by some shit website
At which point Morhaime will just laugh at him and point out that EQ is FREE to play.Originally Posted by some shit website
Overall a biased piece of crap.Originally Posted by some shit website
One reason why people prefered Nost over retail
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It is fanmade software, you can't simply steal server software...
If they could steal this, then there would be perfect WoD Servers running... instead they are all bugged af
The conditions are wildly different. Everquest fizzled in playerbase years ago. Like I said to someone earlier, sure when wow isn't about to release an expansion its been working years on, and when the demand for vanilla>retail players they MIGHT do something like this.
Everquest had incentive. Blizzard, instead of offering a job, offered a cease and desist letter.