Classic World of Warcraft Discussion [Megathread]

[Lupinemancer]

So, WOW 2 essentially... Which is kind of what people wanted, a fresh hard reset of Warcraft with better implementation of its mechanics, instead of bandaid/maintenance fixes for game design as expansions go on.

Kinda, but it'll still be the same game, it's like what Cata did to the old world, only reversed but with the same improved graphics that Cata also did.

[Deleted]

this thread is out of hand and its going nowhere!

[Tome]

Sad to see the server going. I had far more fun on it than retail, but this doesn't surprise me. Sadly, I don't think Blizzard will answer to anything and instead just let the dust settle in silence.

[Gref]

Why they have to answer for something illegal

[Stacie]

Glad it's been shut down, shame it didn't happen sooner before it got so many players. Hopefully a few of its users will start playing the real game and paying towards it.

[cFortyfive]

Sad to see the server going. I had far more fun on it than retail, but this doesn't surprise me. Sadly, I don't think Blizzard will answer to anything and instead just let the dust settle in silence.

Out of sheer curiosity and maybe anticipation of a slight smirk what kind of answer would you expect ?

[Deleted]

Glad it's been shut down, shame it didn't happen sooner before it got so many players. Hopefully a few of its users will start playing the real game and paying towards it.

i feel so sorry for you dude ...

[Tackhisis]

What exactly do you think Nost pirated? They wrote their own server. All the Blizzard copyrighted works are in the client, for which the players had paid Blizzard.

- Geodata
- Spell parameters
- Item names
- Loot tables and spawn points
- Quest texts
- ...

[Deleted]

- Item names

lol
so item names like "copper ore" are now intellectual property?

[Tripax]

Bottom line is that Blizz gained nothing and thousands of people lost hundreds of hours worth of pixels (risk which is very real in private realms).

[Deja Thoris]

i feel so sorry for you dude ...

Save some sympathy for yourself. Your moral compass is fucked.

[Noxina]

Bottom line is that Blizz gained nothing and thousands of people lost hundreds of hours worth of pixels (risk which is very real in private realms).

They shut down a pirate server that used their game code without paying for it.

Not sure why people are so butthurt about it, Blizzard should have done it long ago, they should do this to every damn pirate server that are using their code.

[Jazalak]

Glad it's been shut down, shame it didn't happen sooner before it got so many players. Hopefully a few of its users will start playing the real game and paying towards it.

Naw. Patiently awaiting the rise of Nostalrius Continues brought to you from mother Russia. <3

[Tome]

Out of sheer curiosity and maybe anticipation of a slight smirk what kind of answer would you expect ?

Mainly legal and illegal talk about their intellectual property and how they appreciate people still liking World of Warcraft to this date, and that they have no current plans of launching a server of their own.

And that's pretty much it.

[Deleted]

Well played blizz shuting that stuff down. If you are salty about it go play retail. Oh wait retail suck and bla bla. But 99% of peops stating that actualy cant manage more than one abillity trown at em in raid enviroment.Vanilla was broken as hell why do you wanna go to naxx geting oneshot by loatheb debuff gathering resistance gear,...

[Deleted]

Not the one these people want though. They want to play Vanilla. And one might argue they have a right to, since some of them probably bought the game 11 years ago. Now they can't play it anymore.

Okay, my b*llsh*t alert is going haywire. Everyone either bought that game 11 years ago reading the ToS etc. stating that the game could likely be subject to sudden, considerable change. So then you bought a game that you knew wasn't going to stay the same forever. Or option two, people didn't read the ToS, not Blizz' fault. You bought something that you didn't read End User Agreement or ToS of, one that Blizzard has every right to define as they see fit, since the game is their property, and theirs alone. You don't like it? Then they give you the option of not buying it. After all, you click "I agree", right?

[Deleted]

Save some sympathy for yourself. Your moral compass is fucked.

probably you never heard of irony ...

[willtron]

Well played blizz shuting that stuff down. If you are salty about it go play retail. Oh wait retail suck and bla bla. But 99% of peops stating that actualy cant manage more than one abillity trown at em in raid enviroment.Vanilla was broken as hell why do you wanna go to naxx geting oneshot by loatheb debuff gathering resistance gear,...

Because people enjoyed it?

[Deleted]

Glad it's been shut down, shame it didn't happen sooner before it got so many players. Hopefully a few of its users will start playing the real game and paying towards it.

Yeah.. The server was never really a competitor to retail. Maybe if retail was a better product...

[Foj]

Naw. Patiently awaiting the rise of Nostalrius Continues brought to you from mother Russia. <3

Blizzard would have less trouble shutting down infringing servers in Russia than any other country on Earth. Dollars = things happen in Russia.

Because people enjoyed it?

Sure, if you liked a broken game because you played one of the OP specs and exploited all the other broken shit.