It was discussed to death in this thread, where does it stop, a pve realm ? a pvp one ? what about RP and what about all the regions, Australians wouldnt want to pay 15/month so they can play with 500ms.
So its not 1-2 servers than but a couple of dozen, can NA alone fill a legacy server so that its profitable ?, can the EU ?, what about russia ?.
And that in my opinion is the reason that thats not going to happen as long as WoW in its current form is profitable to blizzard.
Nostralius was using Blizz IP without Blizz having no control of their way of using it. This is (imo) why they hunt private servers. They might keep it untouched, but they could do anything that you could think of.
Example:
Nostralius GM's decide for April Fools joke to switch all weaponmodels ingame into sex toys (I think we all know what swords would be). Blizz wouldn't be able to stop this in any way. Every gaming website would report on how 'WoW private server is filled with dicks'. But people who dont know about private servers and such would only read 'Blizzard game is filled with dicks'. And this kind of publicity would destroy Blizz. "Im not gonna buy anything from dildozzard." etc.
I know this is highly unlikely situation, but its possible. Or any other situation of this kind. Why in their right minds would Blizz risk their biggest source of income when they can just prevent anything like that in the first place.
Given Nostalrius could host 150k active; if Blizzard can't afford to run a similar thing; it's because of one reason; there are far, far more people that are interested in classic servers, than those which simply played on Nost.You don't know shit about the cost to running a game, yet you feel like you have the authority to say they can do it? GTFO!
And given the amount of $ Nostalrius took to run those servers, in line with their numbers, yeh. I have a slight, slight impulse to say that the company that grossed over $20 billion from WoW alone, can afford to host a few legacy servers.
..And given Jagex already did it years ago with 2007scape, because THEY BACKED UP THEIR CODE; I'd be disappointed if Blizzard continue with the shitty ROI mantra.
Doesn't matter what it is - the player participation for a mode, across all realms - is similar to the population of a realm. If your argument for not introducing these type of servers was merely on the amount of players these would attract, why are you okay with a mode that, factually, is catered to hell and back with unique rewards and perks, that holds the same amount of people?
It's pure guesswork to say that it was just because it was free, since they had no option to pay either.
It's not like there was a choice to pay to play, or play for free, and the majority was playing for free. It was free regardless, you don't know how many people were willing to pay for it. It's pure guesswork to say that they won't.
"El Psy Kongroo!" Hearthstone Moderator
JonTron weighs in;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzT8...&nohtml5=False
About sums it up. Go fuck yourself Blizzard. Retail does indeed fucking suck.
Yes but a 'study' becomes more accurate the larger the sample size. Sampling let's say 75 people out of 150k isn't going to give you a super accurate reading :P And I'm sorry most of us won't buy the 98% of them would pay line. You'd maybe make some believers if it was around 50%...
This sucks. But I think we should also be angry about intellectual property because fuck that shit.
Crossing my fingers, hoping Blizzard will do the right thing here.
*Hint* Legacy Server(s) *Hint*
This was linked last night too.
If you watched the video, that's not at all what JonTron actually says.
He specifically mentions over and over again that Blizzard is well within their right. He more of says that they're within their right, but if they're not gonna meet the demand, why not let others who genuinely care about the game do it?
"El Psy Kongroo!" Hearthstone Moderator
Again, you don't know shit about the cost. Do you think Blizzards servers are free or even on the same level as the shit that nost had? Do you think Blizzard has people trained with the tech from the past? Do you think they have all the assets? Do you think Blizzard has people that will work for free like nost did? Do you think Blizzards investors will allow this with little to no gain for them? There are soooooooooo many additional costs that you just don't know anything about. That's also assuming 150k people playing on a FREE server will pay Blizzard. They won't and you know it(or you're just as delusional as every other nost kid).