An eighty-pages "post-mortem" document describing the development of Nostalrius, the problems that happened and some marketing strategies was presented to Blizzard, and after some time, released on the Nostalrius forums. Further developments and the return of NostalriusĪfter a month or so of large scale protests, Blizzard invited the Nostalrius team to the Blizzard HQ to present the case for Vanilla. On November 3, 2017, Blizzard announced World of Warcraft: Classic, an official "vanilla server", in response to the popularity of Nostalrius and other similar private servers. He spoke of the possibility of "Pristine" realms, with many of the new features turned off, to make leveling harder, and social interaction more prevalent in the game. On April 25, 2016, A Blizzard employee responded to the Nostalrius discussion. Blizzard Entertainment was silent on the issue until April 25, where the lead game developer responded to the discussion. Many famous Youtubers have made videos on this very topic discussing the pros and cons of Legacy servers, and it managed to get the attention of one of the original designers of World of Warcraft, Mark Kern, who supports the idea of Legacy servers. A petition on has received over 200,000 signatures pleading Blizzard to hear the voices.
One of the biggest discussions on legacy servers came out of the entire Nostalrius issue. Since the conclusion of Nostalrius servers, a discussion about the possibility of Blizzard opening "Legacy" servers has begun.
It was one of the most successful private servers to date, with over 800,000 accounts registered and 150,000 active accounts. The server host received a Cease and Desist letter from Blizzard Entertainment, and so the server was shut down by the Nostalrius team on April 10, 2016, leading to unprecedented outcry on Facebook and Twitter and large-scale coverage in mainstream computing journalism. The server featured a version of the game called "Vanilla", or, one of the first versions of the game (patch 1.12). Nostalrius was a private World of Warcraft server created in 2015.
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