Offical response from blizzard on legacy servers.

[Akka]

You cleared all raids and you say warlocks and warriors werent that good.

Either you were a shit warlock /bad warrior or the the guys in your guild were really bad

Or he's full of shit, which, considering the drone-like "NOSTALGIADURR" copy-paste, seems the more probable option.

[Drunkenvalley]

Lets compare that to other free games then. LoL is free and about 4%-5% of all players pay for even the cheapest thing in their shop.
Lets say your legacy server gets dubble that, however unlikely. It's still not that many.

You might want to read the full post, rather than gloss over the final point, eh?

[Self Inflicted Wounds]

Last ten days.
It's been plastered all around in the Nost thread, you can only have missed it if you purposedly ignored it. Don't pretend to act honestly, please

Lol every time I see that number it magically goes up.

[Aggrophobic]

You cleared all raids and you say warlocks and warriors werent that good.

Either you were a shit warlock /bad warrior or the the guys in your guild were really bad

You've said that a few times now.
It's obvious you never played vanilla though. Warlocks had one job... Well two on occasion.
1: Make sure CoE was up so that the real damage dealers could do damage (mage durr).
2: Tank thoes two bosses that needed a ranged tank (might have been more, I only face-tanked Twin Emps and 4 horse).

Oh yeah and you could spend hours befor evey raid farming your bags full of soul shards so every fucking raider had health boogers only to find out that you were short on shards becasue some asshole was late and could not make it through the 15 rogues that were ganking outside the raid so you had to summon him.

Warlock was a horrible class in every way and while you might have been able to do a bit of damage, if you did, you messed up your mages DPS and your raid lost out on raid DPS so it was just not worth it.

Warlocks sucked in vanilla. They really did.

[Akka]

Lol every time I see that number it magically goes up.

Which number goes magically up ?
Because the "official" ones have always been the same : 12-16K concurrent players (depends if you count both server or just the first one), 150K active users (logged in the last 10 days), 800K accounts created.

[Uurdz]

I can deal with it. There just aren't many of you, the guys that actually like that version of WoW.
A few thousand just aren't enough and you know this.

Says you. For Blizzard to comment on it, it's clearly in the 100,000k + and its impacting them in a tangible way i.e. many players who have unsubbed.
Sadly there response can be summarised as:
- We get you want legacy servers
- We're going to gloss over admitting we were wrong when we said "You think you do but you dont"
- We can't let anyone do legacy servers, we checked
- We've thought about doing legacy servers but its too hard and or expensive
- How about this idea, where we give you our existing content that you can already do, just strip away some of the "improvements" weve made over the years?
- Also because we are such great guys we will chat to your Nost HEROS!

Resub to us! ... PLEASE?

[Akka]

Says you. For Blizzard to comment on it, it's clearly in the 100,000k + and its impacting them in a tangible way i.e. many players who have unsubbed.
Sadly there response can be summarised as:
- We get you want legacy servers
- We're going to gloss over admitting we were wrong when we said "You think you do but you dont"
- We can't let anyone do legacy servers, we checked
- We've thought about doing legacy servers but its too hard and or expensive
- How about this idea, where we give you our existing content that you can already do, just strip away some of the "improvements" weve made over the years?
- Also because we are such great guys we will chat to your Nost HEROS!

Resub to us! ... PLEASE?

Ahah it's so exactly that

Though I'm not sure if I should laugh or shake my head in disgust :-/

[Self Inflicted Wounds]

Which number goes magically up ?
Because the "official" ones have always been the same : 12-16K concurrent players (depends if you count both server or just the first one), 150K active users (logged in the last 10 days), 800K accounts created.

Those numbers, lol. They are always different. I've seen people quote 2 million account, 250k active users, etc.

Also, the server admins that ran Nost easily could have made money... but people always say "they said they didnt!"

I've also seen "active user" described as different things... as in: active in the last 5,7,10,14,21,30,60 days... get your facts straight pirate server people.

[Drunkenvalley]

Those numbers, lol. They are always different. I've seen people quote 2 million account, 250k active users, etc.

Also, the server admins that ran Nost easily could have made money... but people always say "they said they didnt!"

I've also seen "active user" described as different things... as in: active in the last 5,7,10,14,21,30,60 days... get your facts straight pirate server people.

Get your facts straight, because from the getgo were given on Nostalrius' site as 800k registered, 150k active, 15k concurrent.

[Self Inflicted Wounds]

Get your facts straight, because from the getgo were given on Nostalrius' site as 800k registered, 150k active, 15k concurrent.

Again, I see those numbers quoted differently almost every time. Hell, I'm sure thats happened in this thread.

[Wilfire]

Would be hilarious if Blizzard reset everything back to patch 1.11.0 for a month or so. I bet by the end of it people would be literally begging to be let back into their garrisons .

[Drunkenvalley]

His point is that other people need to get their facts straight. And what does active actually mean?

I don't care for the pissing contest. I'm taking their word for it, just like we just have to take Blizzard on their word when they said they had X amount of active players, or the hundreds of other games that have used the phrase.

[Charge me Doctor]

Last ten days.
It's been plastered all around in the Nost thread, you can only have missed it if you purposedly ignored it. Don't pretend to act honestly, please

So, it's 150000 accounts that allegedly been logged on for which 10 days exactly? Don't tell me "the last days nost server was up" because it'll only ruin this already laughable argument.

[Lochton]

That fun moment where people ruin the topic by derailing the thread in to a Nostalrius discussion. Broaden the view, guys. I am against sitting in a frozen condition of no progress and no content, the thing called Legacy but even I am getting tired of the fact that you cannot bring other viable examples than nostalrius and then turns the topic in to that.

To be honest, I have admitted it before, I would rather a pristine server. I have seen the old days, and they weren't golden enough to stay stuck there. I have nostalgic feelings for it, but going on a Legacy server/Private server doesn't allow me to re-experience those memories. It's just raiding the tomb of a good game version.

I always had this belief that one of the reasons a legacy server isn't on the board, is because there isn't any business benefit with it if they don't know if people are willing to pay more subscription or a special subscription just to have access.

[Drunkenvalley]

Again, I see those numbers quoted differently almost every time. Hell, I'm sure thats happened in this thread.

I don't care for "BUT SOMEONE ELSE...". There's three numbers that are right from Nostalrius. Just tell someone if they're using the wrong thing, instead of trying to throw this bullshit at people who aren't saying it wrong.

[Lochton]

So, it's 150000 accounts that allegedly been logged on for which 10 days exactly? Don't tell me "the last days nost server was up" because it'll only ruin this already laughable argument.

I don't believe you can use their activity numbers from the day they were told, to the day they were shut down. Those aren't really reliable numbers, only bolstered because people finally realized that it was going down. Even though Nostalrius team apparently admitted they wouldn't have been able to run for much longer anyways.

The ten most linked screenshots of a huge crowd I've seen from said server were all within the shutdown period.

[Charge me Doctor]

Would be hilarious if Blizzard reset everything back to patch 1.11.0 for a month or so. I bet by the end of it people would be literally begging to be let back into their garrisons .

They'll just unsub and move on like any decent adult would do, instead of crying and bitching about changed stuff

[Lotus Victoria]

But just some months ago you were crapping on legacy servers and anyone playing on it.

Yep. I did. I still think that Vanilla is bad, and I still think that we don't need Vanilla servers. As for Nostalrius, I've seen some printscreens, and the community looked nice. WoD isn't my cup of tea, so I would have played Nolstalrius, even if I'm not a fan of Vanilla WoW.

Also, someone is stalking me
jk, love u

[Charge me Doctor]

I don't believe you can use their activity numbers from the day they were told, to the day they were shut down. Those aren't really reliable numbers, only bolstered because people finally realized that it was going down. Even though Nostalrius team apparently admitted they wouldn't have been able to run for much longer anyways.

The ten most linked screenshots of a huge crowd I've seen from said server were all within the shutdown period.

I don't believe that we can use their activity numbers at all, because, well, they could easily be made up, and they are irrelevant to the discussion anyways.
In worst case scenario - these numbers are simply a lie.
In best case scenario - these numbers are true, and in last 10 days of nost existence they've got bunch of players into their server who wanted to check it out (thanks to heavy advertisement) and cherry picked this statistic

[Self Inflicted Wounds]

I don't care for the pissing contest. I'm taking their word for it, just like we just have to take Blizzard on their word when they said they had X amount of active players, or the hundreds of other games that have used the phrase.

I guess you'll take Blizzards word for it when they say they can't make a legacy server then, right?