Originally Posted by
Sansnom
How do you know exactly why? So the fact it was the most casual MMO at the time with a know brand behind had nothing to with the initial success?
Where these private servers free? If so, could that not be a contributing factor?
Blizzard probably see a possible financial case for its revival. After all, I suspect many of the infrastructure are in place. They have the code already. In a sense, they borrowing or sharing what is already for their other games. So the investment is relatively small.
It may be financial viable and stable for them to do so. Besides, WoW is the not first game they are reviving so it is not an entirely new thing from Blizzard.