Classic World of Warcraft Discussion [Megathread]

[Kyanion]

The Great Mark Kern Conspiracy is one of my favorite recurring parts of the thread now.

Yeah and it is only from one specific deluded person in the thread too. No one else has made anything like those kind of claims, so it is quite funny.

[AeneasBK]

Hope the stress test is a success

[Deleted]

All im saying is, Blizz will have something up their sleeves that will shut this all downagain, mark my words.

[Morssoe]

All im saying is, Blizz will have something up their sleeves that will shut this all downagain, mark my words.

That doesn't matter at all.

[AeneasBK]

All im saying is, Blizz will have something up their sleeves that will shut this all downagain, mark my words.

In fairness I'm (personally) moderately prepared for this, and it doesn't bother me as I've having plenty enoguh fun on Overwatch Civ6, DA:O and KOTOR:II atm

[Trigsten]

The Great Mark Kern Conspiracy is one of my favorite recurring parts of the thread now.

^^^

People have too much time

[Dsc]

Wow 1788 pages.

I'll tell you what will cause "official" Legacy servers to happen.

It'll be the day Acti-Blizz bean-counters figure re-releasing a product that they already have finished and sitting in storage, is profitable overall. Taking into consideration all current and future products. $$$ That is the catalyst.

[slaise1]

Stresstest today at 19.00 CET, 12.00 EST, 9.00 PST

[Deleted]

So is MMO-Champion now openly accepting advertising of private servers?

[Deleted]

All im saying is, Blizz will have something up their sleeves that will shut this all downagain, mark my words.

Yes, they will probably shut it down, but with the release of the source it will pop up again and again.

People are going to play classic WoW. It is up to Blizzard to decide whether they do it legaĺly or not.

[Darkeon]

So is MMO-Champion now openly accepting advertising of private servers?

As far as I'm aware the only "Private Server" discussion they are allowing is us commenting on "Nostalrius" situation. Access information from this or other Private Servers still gets nuked down.

But I'm quite positive you knew this already and your post was nothing but a veiled jab at the server in question - Which, in itself, is uninspiring and rather pathetic at this point. I bid you a good day, sir!

[Eleccybubb]

Yes, they will probably shut it down, but with the release of the source it will pop up again and again.

People are going to play classic WoW. It is up to Blizzard to decide whether they do it legaĺly or not.

You also realise the risk in releasing the source can lead to scam servers yes? I remember a TBC server that eventually turned out to be a massive scam and the big guy in charge of it all basically redirected the homepage to a donation page for him.

[Deleted]

Wow 1788 pages.

I'll tell you what will cause "official" Legacy servers to happen.

It'll be the day Acti-Blizz bean-counters figure re-releasing a product that they already have finished and sitting in storage, is profitable overall. Taking into consideration all current and future products. $$$ That is the catalyst.

Sad thing is when Blizzard make vanilla servers it wont be "vanilla", it will be "2016 vanilla". 100% they will redo some specs so they are all availible for raiding and other weird things most likely.

[Faylinn]

16,393 people signed up for the stress test so far, rip server.

[slaise1]

16,393 people signed up for the stress test so far, rip server.

if everybody were to login it requires a superhuman effort to have it go past the login screen

[Volitar]

I don't understand why so many people who don't like legacy servers keep posting here? You aren't going to change anyone's minds. People who want to play legacy servers are gonna do it and private servers are the only way.

[deniter]

Sad thing is when Blizzard make vanilla servers it wont be "vanilla", it will be "2016 vanilla". 100% they will redo some specs so they are all availible for raiding and other weird things most likely.

Tbh, we all know vanilla had some issues even near the release of TBC, which they promised to fix in the first expansion. I wouldn't mind them releasing "vanilla 2016" as a game we should have had ten years ago, as long as it has nothing to do with those awful "pristine servers" they've been talking about lately.

[Deficineiron]

All im saying is, Blizz will have something up their sleeves that will shut this all downagain, mark my words.

A C&D letter seems a no-brainer. I question how aggressively they would push other measures - there is certainly precedent for other servers being otherwise left alone for years, even some of the most blatant. For blizzard, the main issue is as long as they have acted in a manner to provide legal cover over the protecting the copyright angle, they have no further upside on going after nost and other classic ps's, and plenty of downside with their customers. This is likely why that classic server that started a month after nost last year is still quietly chugging along.

More generally, it has been suggested that blizzard was surprised nost shut down after getting the c&d. Are there other ps's that have closed after a single letter from blizz in EU or other non-north-america areas?

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Sad thing is when Blizzard make vanilla servers it wont be "vanilla", it will be "2016 vanilla". 100% they will redo some specs so they are all availible for raiding and other weird things most likely.

The under-discussed Frankenstein server scenario. It should be the number one concern of people pushing blizzard legacy servers, beyond the issue of them happening at all. It may in fact be a concern of blizz mgmt and a reason they are not pushing this themselves (I hypothesize that some blizz mgmt don't want to turn classic into an accessible linear fun-house parody of old wow, and that they may be asked to do just that). Not because 'the fans demand it (though they might say that)', but because marketing and/or a/b 'demands' it.

[HordeFanboy]

Legion>rest of garbage expansions

[Eleccybubb]

Legion>rest of garbage expansions

You mean that rngfest where I can end up with higher Ilvl gear that's actually worse for my spec? Sorry but Legion has it's flaws too just like older expansions did.