I prefer retail over private servers (Classic) for a few reasons that are not limited to:
- They're illegal.
- I don't want my retail accounts banned.
- The communities on the private servers are shit. (Just look at the posters in this thread, on reddit, and on Facebook for your evidence.)
WoD may not be a good expansion (it's as bad as TBC), but playing with the retail community has to be way better than playing with any of the Nosdrones and Vanilladrones that I've seen on here, reddit, and Facebook.
Be it sooner or later, they WILL get there. Of this I am certain. It happened to Everquest, it happened to Runescape, it happened to Lineage.
If it's gonna happen at some point, then why not now? There was the perfect opportunity. They wouldn't have lost face, nor provoked any rage.
You're obfuscated that someone has a different opinion than yours and are valiantly defending their beliefs. We could be as petty and refer to your community as shit. But we're not, at least I'm not. You cannot generalize. Also, Nost community, on the pvp server at least, was awesome. Even the goddamn barrens chat was the same as legends go. I met opposing faction members that helped me kill quest mobs, I had some camp me. All in all, I loved the people, even though I had some bad experiences. My experience was more than positive overall.
Last edited by Legion; 2016-04-10 at 07:46 PM.
What gives with the closed mindedness of some users here? I understand if you prefer the current state of WoW to vanilla. I even understand if you think a private server is illegal and underhanded. But, you cannot ignore the fact that a business case can absolutely be made for Blizzard to create legacy servers.
Everything else is irrelevant, really. A corporation like Blizzard doesn't, (and shouldn't), give a crap about intangible arguments like... "Vanilla WoW was perfect, please bring it back!" "WoD sucks! Vanilla was better!" "The golden age of WoW was vanilla!" But, it absolutely should give credence to an argument that there is potentially an untapped revenue stream. If there is a product or service that the market is willing to pay for, and your organization is well suited and able to bring that product/service to market while keeping a healthy margin, it would be asinine not to do your due diligence on the possibility of bringing that product/service to market.
Blizzard already did it once with DOTA 2, and you can be sure that the high-level executives that chose not to pursue a DOTA spin-off got their asses reamed by their superiors. That was a stupid and prideful oversight by Blizzard, and it cost them a healthy amount of revenue, (something like $200m+ in 2015 alone).
((Disclaimer: I played Nostalrius for a whopping 7 hours, got to level 10, and never played again.))
Yeah. I love the fact that I could choose where to go level first. I of course headed to Val'sharah... Druid lore... duh! Will probably head to Highmountain after I finish that.
Not bothering to stream any of it on Twitch/Youtube because truth be told, I'm not all that interesting and there are so many others doing it already lol.
With that argument they could counter sue for the amount of effort and time all the volunteers put into the private server. Not to mention there is no intellectual property if it doesn't currently exsist. If Blizzard had vanilla, bc, wrath, cata, mop server then it would be intellectual property. What they did was copyright infringement, not theft of intellectual property.
(Emphasis mine.)
That is the problem. No one but Blizzard knows whether it would be possible to provide official Vanilla WoW servers that fit Blizzard's standards. We can make very rough estimates, but it's just raw speculation. If Blizzard has repeatedly stated they have no plans for Vanilla servers yet, it stands to reason they do not predict they would be able to bring those to market while keeping said healthy margin. Anyone saying they know whether that's true or not is plain and simply pulling that knowledge out of their backsides.
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"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
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