https://en.nostalrius.org/
Blizzard were buttdevasted enough to kill server without donate shop(something that they never did before)
It's over
WoW is trully finished
Oh man! It truly got shut down didn't it!
>>333424765
ITS NOT FUCKING FAIR
What's next Kronos?
>>333424765
Holy fucking shit I am mad now. This fucking sucks. FUCK BLIZZARD FUCK ACTIVISION FUCK THE FUCKING JEWS FUCK THEM ALL HOLY SHIT I AM SO FUCKING MAD FUCK THEEEEEEMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
>just hit level 60 yesterday
>>333425447
Blizzard usually doesn't care about servers with 300ppl
Wonder how fast they will shut down corecraft
>blizzard going out of its way to fuck vanilla players over because warlords was ass and legion has zero hype
CC when?
>started 2 weeks ago
>4d 6h /played
never again will I fall for the private server meme. I knew it would be too good to be true
Fuck blizzard cuckers and their shit retail legion poop garbage
>>333425760
How delusional. They shut it down it down because like any jew company, it's illegal.
The main reason Blizzard is shutting them down is because the admins were making a profit from Nostalrius through RMT farmers.
>>333424765
That is why private realms suck.
Only got to 55 before i took a break and decided i wanted to return today
>see this.
Fuck.
RIP
If blizzard ever thinks vanilla players are EVER going to play shitty retail wow because they're servers get shut down they are fucking deluded. I Haven't purchased a modern blizzard game since they went to shit after activision took over. FUCK THIS GAY EARTH.
>>333424765
Yes I don't know how to feel about this. It's really all I have. Blizzard doesn't deserve my money with their new shit game. I really hat those guys.. Without WoW all I have is the shithole of a website and the media. Noooo I don't want it to be like that I want to escape this world.. Just leave me to play my game..
more like nostalrius ends ;^)
>>333425847
I've been playing private servers for about 6 years now, Blizzard doesn't give two flying fucks about them usually. It's just that Nostalrius had a playerbase as larger than about half blizzards servers.
>>333425780
>never again will I fall for the private server meme.
Oh come on
We all were aware about dangers of investing your time into private server
Thanks, China.
>make money off stolen software
>expect to get away with it
lel
>>333424765
Played on WoWScape for 4 years. Was shutdown and sued by Blizzard for 80 million dollars. Lost 4 years of progress to that shit and never looked back at private servers.
Did you guys not see this coming or what?
should we make a petition on change . org?
>>333426150
No because those don't accomplish anything and anybody who thinks they do is a moron
>>333426130
They don't tho
I don't see why i should have to play 15 bucks a month while you fags play for free.
Fuck off.
>mfw
http://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/dota2.gamepedia.com/4/45/Face_death_06.mp3
FML /v/ ; ;
I don't understand why Blizzard doesn't make servers for previous expansions/content.
There's money to be made off of nostalgia-driven neckbeards and the only reasoning I've seen was that "we want to keep the game moving forward".
What the hell?
Regards,
A jewish mind
So are there any WotLK servers that are:
1x (2x max)
Reasonably populated (I want to be able to find dungeon groups without waiting for hours)
Not full of gamebreaking bugs or P2W as fuck
>Players have noticed that some realms that are usually High population are now Medium and BlizzardCS explained why.
What if Blizzard decides to push for information about players who played Nostalrius and attempts to sue them too?
>>333426247
I'd easily pay $15 a month to play real WoW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuOYmqSF6OQ
Some of you guys are alright.
I hope you find success and happiness in your future.
>>333426216
RMT chinks were making money and they were splitting the profits with the admins to let them stay and also keep the server free without hosting ads or donations.
hehehe suck my dick faggots
t pezado
>play on an illegal server
>surprised and angry when it gets shut down
gamers.jpg
>>333426193
I think he was just being silly.
giivasunner and nostalrius down at the same time, what a double kill
>>333426365
pve server?
>>333424765
bunch of fuckers. Thx to remind me to NEVER buy an activision/blizzard product again.
>>333426374
Cause then they would have to admit that current wow is dogshit when they see everyone playing on the classic realms
HAHAHA POOR FOREIGN SHITAKINS BTFO
BLIZZARD
YOU DID IT AGAIN
>>333426376
why not just combine realms, there's too fucking many
> 2016
> blizz says that we dont want vanillia servers
> vanillia server started, 12k pop for game capped at 2k
> blizz buttmad because something proved them wrong
> blizz killed nost
> 4chan mad as fuck makes epic raid and fucks blizzard like they deserve
I want to belive
>>333424765
To the only decent private server.
F
>protecting your IP is a bad thing
Look, it's okay to be mad and you have a right to be. But to say Blizzard is retarded for protecting their own IP is well, retarded. You would do literally the exact same thing in their position.
>>333426574
they did
I was going to start playing wow there soon, guess now I have to wait for the next server.
>>333426531
But it's a publicly traded company with a huge potential for "new" sources of cash flow.
Why not? Shouldn't the stockholders be behind this?
>>333426374
It's because they don't want to admit newer xpacks were a failure. I'd easily pay $15 a month for a populated WotLK server (ideally they'd charge $5-7 for maximum profit) though.
It's what happens when you use chinks to make money
>>333426142
Did you?
>>333426625
The problem is that before they only go for servers with donate and shops that are decently popular
Thank fuck. Now we can have proper wow shit posting threads without the constant nost shilling.
>"Silly goyim, you need to play the substandard retail version or not play WoW at all, we need all your shekels even though we make billions as it is."
Blizzard CEO
>>333425447
I don't want to play as a fucking centaur. I want my goddamn warlock back.
Fuck Activision. Fuck Blizzard. If you didn't want Nostalrius, you could have opened YOUR OWN LEGACY SERVERS.
OR they even could have considered, you know, not completely fucking ruining the game.
http://www.wowstatus.net/~wowstatus/serverlist/standard
>mfw this site still exist
>>333426625
Nothing you said was wrong
But what's interesting about this whole ordeal is blizzard for the first time ever admiting they were wrong
Their main argument was always "lol no one wants to play vanilla, why should we release vanilla servers"
but nost proved that wrong, so by suing Nost they may have to finally adress the issue
I'd hate my community and try to fuck them over at all times too if it were as retarded as the WoW one and rejected a god tier addon like MoP because "KUNG FU PANDA LOL"
serves you right, assholes.
man up and pay your sub for the REAL game so you dont have to put up with content thats years old and balance issues.
FUUUUCKKKKK
https://twitter.com/NostalBegins/status/717832614279688193
>HOLY
>FUCKING
>SHIT
Oh my God... I played it for a few months last year.and was looking forward to get back in. I can't imagine how the current active players must feel
>that dude that was one week away from Grand Marshall rank
>that no-life with 6 level 60s and 200+ days /played
>that noob that was supposed to run Molten Core for the very first time tonight
>the people that created online friendship and all of a sudden lose all their friends
I feel bad for everyone. Blizzard sucks dick. If they had a legacy server available, I would understand, but this is just a low-blow.
This is "Hey our analyst came to the.conclusion shutting down Nost will mean 3000 more Legion copies sold. Let's do this!"
Ouch :(
>>333426374
It really wouldn't be as popular as you think. Look at OSRS, and that has a f2p mode. Nost was completely f2p and had gold farming out the ass. There's not many people who would still pay a sub fee just to play vanilla.
Not to say nobody would do it, but certainly not enough to warrant the maintenance and pay a team to support it.
>>333426782
>Company wants to make money
>MUH JEWS REEEEEEEEEEE
Get to Goldshire by the lake!
>>333426902
still better then WoD
>>333424765
woooooow was just about to start playing again because i made some new efriends and we need something time consuming. how the fuck did they even shut it down. weren't servers in france or some fucking where?
>>333424765
get fucked nostalgia fags now go shill ur next shitty private server
>Nost announces they will no longer be taking donations only money can be given directly to the Server Host in BULK (IE the full price of the month or nothing.)
>Was already gonna shutdown on the 10th due to this because it wasn't paid
>Blizzard does this
>Everyone blames them
Vanilla is almost as bad as WoD anyway.
Pirate BTFO nakanetsta
>>333426980
They don't want to make money of retail tho. We think they do but they dont!
>>333426980
Just because you know it's true anon
>>333426050
>private server larger than public current servers
citation needed bitch
At least blizzard now can't deny that there is a demand for a legacy server. That private sever was fucking huge. Who knows, maybe one day when blizzard desperately needs shekels they will open a vanilla server.
>>333426432
Yeah it was illegal but it provided a service for players who kept reaching out to Blizzard to add the mode. Instead of just doing legacy shit or getting paid to bring back old servers for those who are interested in it they flat out reject the idea altogether saying "You think you want it, but you don't." when this is a clear example that this population is sustainable.
I only ever played Nostalrius for the lore because all the expansions on the core game fucked up my following of WoW so hard. How's a new player supposed to know what the Cataclysm was right out of fucking training? Then I'm supposed to know who the Lich King is like I've been fighting him my entire life.
Blame big streamers. Many twitch WoW players were openly saying they're playing nost during their streams. Going as far as saying "Current wow is such shit I'm going to end my stream early and play nost".
You can poke the blizzard bear but when you're their free marketing and telling people to play an older illegal version of their game over the current somebody was bound to get fucked. I won't be shocked if blizzard doesn't issue channel temp bans for the worst offenders, and yes they can do that.
it's so fucking hilarious seeing MMO addicts getting butthurt that their crack is getting taken away.
Maybe you guys will actually kill yourselves or better yet play some actual fucking video games.
>>333426625
The thing is, most every server that has been taken down before now did one of two things
A) had a cash shop
B) tried to host content that wasn't out yet
Nost didn't do either of those things, but it did prove that people still want Vanilla. Which means either Blizzard just doesn't like hearing about it anymore or they're going to announce legacy servers.
Get fucked
>>333427056
I forgot WoW doesn't operate or hold its copyright in the backwater banana republic that is France.
>>333427056
Blizzard main EU office is based in france
>20 days played
Farewell, cruel world.
>>333424765
WHERE WILL IT ALL FUCKING END?
>Never played this
>Never have played any blizzard game at all
Feels good man
>inb4 you missed out ebin meme
>>333426970
I have a real life and I'm still devastated.
My guild was pretty serious, and they were my goddamn boys. We've all been so excited for AQ progression -- looking at strategies, posting on our guild forum, planning out new gear sets. Hell, I just got promoted to class leader, and I was ecstatic. Doesn't mean shit anymore.
>>333427145
it's a decade old video game. time to let go
>>333427056
>weren't servers in france or some fucking where?
Blizzard's Europe HQ is in Paris senpai
Meatshot
>>333424765
>https://en.nostalrius.org/
top fucking keks... just imagine how all those pool souls feel who has spent however long grinding out their characters and progressing through raids only to try to login and find out everything they spent hours on was all for nothing now.
>>333427118
>>333427126
I've been playing the devil's advocate a lot this thread; hosting legacy servers (only TBC or WotLK would really work, nostalgiafags would get bored of vannila quickly) would be economically viable and I do loathe Blizzard but they're not in the wrong here.
>>333427242
/pol/ pls. For a board that prides itself on "red-pilling" you fuckers have no idea how the real world works
>>333427181
Nost had a huge Real Money Trade problem though and it's widely believed that they were taking profits from that too so they could host the server without donations or ads.
>>333427129
14k players against 1k on the high servers
Yeah, I wonder
>mfw ~60 days on some "pre"TBC 2.4.3 servers
>mfw 50+ days on Archaica
>mfw 50+ days on Feenix when it was just "Feenix"
>mfw 100+ days on Warsong
>mfw 150+ days on Emerald Dream
I just don't care anymore. I enjoyed the simplicity of PvP, the really nice zones, comfy music, simple crafting, 40man raid coordination, lack of fucking rotation and "filler" spells, guild wars, drama around world bosses and all the stuff that new expansions and community doesn't offer anymore.
But I'm not farming any more fucking Flasks now
>>333427335
Blizzard doesn't deserve my money faggot.
>>333427086
Fucking this
I was going to play legion but after this im fucking done with blizzard
I dont even play nostalrius anymore but it was a great server and i had a lot of fun, shutting it down is pure fucking bullshit and im.never buying another blizzard product
>wanting vanilla servers
how cucked do you have to be? yeah WoD was a pretty weak expansion but it's still miles ahead of the crapfest that was classic
at least admit you're just an ignorant retard in it for the nostalgia and stop pretending the game was actually better
>>333424765
Hope this means we stop getting faggots shilling nost on every fucking wow thread
>>333427191
Has threefish finished that shit yet? Wasn't it supposed to be a game or video or something? It's been years, what happened?
>>333427421
So don't give it to them, nobody's forcing you. I don't like WoD so I'm not going to be giving them money but I'm not an attention whoring autist who needs to constantly tell people about it.
Seriously I'd fucking kill for a WotLK server (with some of the better raids such as Kara boosted to 80)
>>333427283
I'm a new player with an active sub though, anon. Wikipedia didn't do it for me so I had to go in and see things for myself and was frustrated with the timeline since they merged all expansions to the core game.
>>333427331
So just like when Blizz first released TBC then.
What private server can I play? I just want one where I level up quickly you know.
FUCK YOU BLIZZARD FUCK YOUI havent even played for that long, I was just genuinely having fun on here. FUCK
>>333427237
Nope. Game over.
>>333426375
pls respond
>>333424765
PC "mastur race" can't afford less than a $ a day for 24 hours of fun and interaction with friends.
WOW
>>333424765
lel thats pretty underhanded and awful
I never was that big of a fan of vanilla depsite having fond memories of it and i had no problems with people playing on their private server because of it, but my god this pretty awful, I hope it hit mainstream gaming news.
I quit in cataclysm
![bootlickers[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/3X6Woyx.jpg "bootlickers[1].jpg")
>all these drones here and on mmochamp defending blizzard for spitting on old fans
>>333427335
>only /pol/ recognizes corporate faggotry as corporate jewery
I love how the right and the left flipped recently, yet the left thinks it's somehow more progressive than ever
>>333426574
They did, just not physically.
Tons of realms are now groups of 3+ realms.
>>333427552
Attention whoring? Wtf are you talking about I'm pissed the fuck of it has nothing to do with atentionwhoring you little fag. I'd say it's more what you are doing.
>oh man nost had such a huge user base this proves blizzard should run legacy servers!
>omit that nost was free
That said, blizzard could be jewdevils, merge some low pop servers, and use the freed up space to host a single vanilla, a BC, and a WOTLK server to pick up the occasional resub from a nostalgiafag. It's not like their sub numbers could possibly get worse. Plus you can charge people the character move fee when they get bored of the Xpac they picked and want to move to the next.
get back to AFKing in your garrison, goiym, you'll love it
>>333427673
>paying 15$ a month to do the same raid twice a week for the next five months at least
No.
>>333427691
What do you hope to see when this breaks "mainstream gaming news"
Blizzard is not in the wrong you know.
>>333427695
Going full tinfoil here, but actually possible they are plants from Blizzard expecting this outrage.
That's a shame.
I wasn't playing this very heavily yet, but as someone who was busy playing other shit when WoW released, I finally understand why it became so popular.
i'm amazed that they let people play a pirate version of their game for so long honestly.
defend it all you like but it's literally people playing a version of something blizzard made and wants to charge for.
>>333427673
>interaction with friends
That would be suggesting anybody actually plays on retail servers
>>333427695
Or it's because some people are able to approach the situation rationally.
>>333427769
/pol/ is the one who just yells OMG JEWZ at everything, both sides are retarded however.
>>333427335
People will always hold on to the "vanilla was better " meme. I can't believe people are actually butthurt and pissed at Blizzard for protecting their assets just as any other company would.
>>333427691
>mainstream gaming news.
I enjoy watching WoWcucks suffer. You are the heroin addicts of video games.
>>333427695
The entire website has been full of newfags who do nothing but shitpost and present not one iota of quality to the site, for several years now. It's no surprise.
rip in piece
>>333427830
>sub for a couple of months
>enjoy quality conent
>unsub during content droughts
???
I don't need to go back to an inferior product to get my "fix", I'm not an idiot.
Ironforge
I never even played and I'm still mad
What the fuck is blizzard's problem? It's not like they're losing money to this, for fuck sakes
>>333427695
Its literally /2 here. Drones defend literally everything Blizzard serves them. And if you bring up some solid facts they start with "...still the MMO with the largest playerbase" or "They make enough money through x and/or y". Its ridiculious
>>333427829
not like it was any different in vanilla with people afking on their mount in stormwind or orgrimmar.
The fact that Nost existed and hosted the numbers that it did. Also the fact that you can sign up on legit Blizzard servers to be apart of a guild that doesn't use any of the heirloom bullshit, caps at 60, and progresses through old raids like the old days is more than enough proof that people want to at least be able to experience what WoW was like back in 04/05.
Even if a legacy server were to fail you could just update it to the version all the other servers are up to. They really just don't want to admit that they got lucky as fuck when it came to Vanilla/TBC even.
They hit that sweet spot where the game wasn't EQ levels of poopsocking but there was still enough content for you to tackle and it felt like you actually accomplished something when you did.
The game is just too oversimplified now and WoW has always been an oversimplified version of other MMO's.
>>333424765
>being surprised that an illegal server got shut down
It sucks, but what did you expect?
>>333427660
Don't bother playing private servers. I think this is a pattern.
>>333427959
enjoy running your "quality content" on LFR
>>333427937
I enjoy how you probably posted something like this 3 times already and nobody even noticed.
I imagine your crusty faggot face grinning as you type this like you'll get anybody. You're a joke.
oh - never played nost btw, just calling a spade a spade. or in this case a faggot a faggot
>>333427823
Most of the vanilla WoW playerbase would have to be at least in their 20's by now.
I don't think anyone would have much issue paying an MMO sub fee at that age.
>>333427805
>I know you are but what am I
y u mad tho
>>333427918
I understand the reaction and am not thrilled about it myself but /pol/ edgelords seem to think companies exist for reasons other than making money and jump to a scapegoat to blame when spoiler: company wants to make money.
>>333427472
I saw more world action in the three days I got to play Nost than in the entire 1-85 when I played MoP. Leveled a panda all the way entirely solo without having a single open world fight.
It was great to actually feel like you have a fucking community again with a server that felt alive.
>>333424765
>Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
>Albert Einstein.
>>333427885
Except it's never been shut down if the creators were not profiting.
This is straight damage control by Blizzard
>How dare they shut down pirate servers!
>petition goes up
>signatures fucking skyrocket
>>333427695
mmo champ has been shit since curse took over and even before that
boubille is a scheming motherfucker who gets away with datamining because hes the biggest news site to WoW so they'll let him slip
>>333428084
That was awfully pretentious.
>>333427910
>Implying the Jews aren't behind everything
>>333427918
>"vanilla was better "
I'm not going to say vanilla is better, It's different.
Alot of people think that welfare epics and "justice points" and daily heroics and balancing around arenas and homogenization of classes isn't the way Wow was supposed to go.
>>333427695
Mmochamp is the NeoGAF of WoW forums.
>set up a private server that you know isn't allowed
>invest time on a server you know could be axed at any minute
>get assblasted when all your effort ends up exactly where you knew it would go
please keep crying
Server was already gonna shut down during April because of the new Donation System anyway. This is a nice way to blame Blizzard tho lmao
http://forum.nostalrius.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=37403
>>333424765
>All those buttblasted faggots that thought Nost was special as if private servers hadn't been up for years
>as if people don't always crowd around one private server, get bored, and move on to another one
Well I guess you guys were right about being special. It's dead now. At least people will stop shilling for a server no different than all the ones that came before it.
>>333428289
Like your mother in bed ;o
>>333428047
I cleared every raid on mythic in a reasonable timeframe. I bought WoD about at release, obviously a very weak addon, but I still had a lot of fun. Been unsubbed for about 6 months now and don't regret playing for the time I did or not playing right now. Also looking forward to Legion.
Honestly, playing WoW like this is pretty great. Yeah you're not gonna get 12 months of content every year but which fucking MMO actually offers that without ridiculous and unfun grinding/timesinks?
All these faggots going on about stealing "intellectual property" from blizzard.
Sure you boys have no pirated games/music/movies on your computers
>>333427937
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I only played for a bit, but it was really nice experiencing vanilla again. RIP
>blizzard has been taking down private servers for years
>hurr this time it's different
nostalgiafag tears are delicious. poopsocking to 60 for no reason
eh
i needed something to play while waiting for vidya
i got until 10
thats enough til dark souls 3
a little sad because i really met some nice people to play with in nost
>>333428473
You say that like a company would be in the wrong for being unhappy about piracy. I've been arguing for and against both sides in this thread and have come to the conclusion everybody is retarded
I will never give blizz another cent. OW preorder cancelled.
>>333426374
Because not many people would pay for playing nostalgia shit, and if they did they would quit after a month because time or other issues,Blizzard would've to give extra maintenance to those servers that you don't even know if they will make a profit,etc
people play vanilla servers because they are free
Anyone who believes that there is money to be made in legacy servers doesn't have a fucking clue.
goodbye, my friends...
t. t2 undead rogue
>>333426704
>I'd easily pay $15 a month
Yeah, until you got bored you fucking idiot. People like you and >>333426374
clearly haven't played games long enough to be make any valid point whatsoever. Do you know how quickly people grow tired of blizzshit?
I honestly never played WoW
whats going on?
They shut down servers made by fans?
Whats wrong with playing on the official servers?
>ending with a fucking Einstein quote
I guess it's true, WoW is indeed babbys first MMO.
>>333428569
OSRS has 50k players last time I checked, take that how you will.
>>333428524
how is the content drought buddy? having fun grinding the same raid for 2 years?
>>333428473
i legit don't
mainly because i don't really know how to without fucking my pc up and i cant afford that but if it allows me moral superiority here then i will shove it in your face.
also as someone who played vanilla wow up until WoD and despises blizzard you cant just steal someones intellectual property and expect things to be a ok
>>333428052
actually first time posted and if I had wished for it, a better (you) couldn't been served
you guys think kronos is gonna be shut down? I think i have like a level 15 on their i wanna start leveling again.
>>333428575
>vanilla was so much better guys
>8 buttons
>>333426574
Because Blizzard is incompetent and can't start an expansion off without every server crashing for a week. This is their shitty way of "fixing" it
As much as people will try to make the claim that legacy servers would be a good idea in reality they'd never be worth the investment.
Maybe now blizzard will balance horde and alliance. Bleeding Hollows is so fucked right now.
>>333428569
Do you realize how cheap server upkeep is?
If they hyped it well enough the people who resubbed for just one month to give it a shot would be more than enough profit.
>My argument has and will always be Blizzard didn't create the social environment... Players did. So if Blizzard creates content, and the social aspect dies... the game and its players were never really "social" to begin with. Because I have been in a truly "social" guild and if you want that to stay alive you have to put in the effort and it has NOTHING to do with group finding tools.
>WoD you never leave your Garrison... /tear
>Vanilla you never leave your Capital City.
Wow, blizzard really go full damage control on the mmochamp
>>333428638
I played every xpack and WotLK was the only one that didn't get stale after two weeks. The nostalgiafags lie within vanilla
>>333427143
It wasn't "huge". There has been a decline of about 5 million players since the game peaked out during WOTLK. The server peaked out at what, like 15K players total? The lowest pop current server is 68K so for someone to say the server is fucking huge isn't doing nothing but blowing smoke. Yes there is a small demand for a vanilla server, but there isn't enough of a demand for them to put up a vanilla realm, and there never will be a high enough demand. The amount of people who prefer vanilla is a very small minority.
>>333428648
It was a vanilla server as in it was how the game was years ago.
So apparently this whole thing was a lie and they are shutting down for not being able to pay the bills.
NEVER
TRUST
A FRENCHIE
HON HON HON HON
GOOD FUCKING JOB TURNING A LOT OF PEOPLE AGAINST BLIZZARD
>Paula Deen
>They were already going to shut down on April 10th due to the bills. Last month they decided to stop taking donations and instead if you want to donate you have to go directly to the Server Host, who forces you to pay in bulk, in other words the whole bill or nothing. The bill wasn't paid. It was going down anyway but this is a convenient out for shitposters so they can blame Blizzard despite the fact that in this one instance they did everything by the book.
SOURCE:
http://forum.nostalrius.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=37403
>>333427963
Are you retarded? They literally are. Shit I have a friend who literally unsubbed from retail for the SOLE REASON that Nost was free and he wanted to save a few bucks.
>>333428694
How's the same raid for 10 years?
>>333428638
Look at the post above yours.
In fact, look at any screenshot in this thread. Some people had months worth of in game playtime.
guys go see the nost general on /vg/ right now
the tears are hilarious
>>333428770
to be honest i just bought a lvl 100 orc warrior and i have no fucking idea what I'm doing. There's too many abilities. I can't PVP for shit.
>>333428686
And 1k people played free vanilla server.
take that how you will.
>>333428806
>If they hyped it well enough
That would require money though.
>komm susser todd playing in /nosg/
kek
>>333428648
>Whats wrong with playing on the official servers?
Garbage expansions and the cash shop are some examples to start with.
why don't these idiots set up their servers in some shithole where blizzard can't (or won't bother) come after them?
>france
might as well try california next time
>>333428969
Wow like 100 people and like 2000 bots
Why would you want to play an older version?
Nostalfag on sucide watch :DDDD
>>333427963
Calm down, chances are it wasn't blizz >>333428927
>>>/vg/137867050
>>333428648
The current expansion for WoW is hot dogshit is the problem.
Oh, and having one(1) raid to do for a little over a year is pretty fucking bad too.
Hellfire Citadel came out in June 2015, and won't be replaced with new content until September of this year at the earliest.
>>333428927
Don't post my shit here you stupid /v/irgin. I am not a shitposting catalyst.
>>333428648
it was a very popular vanilla private server, most people hate modern wow.
>>333428819
It's true though. Nothing's stopping you from finding groups the old way. Nothing's stopping you from chatting up strangers in pugs.
Yeah the social aspect feels weaker but maybe that's because you're not longer an impressionable 12 year old playing your first MMO and instead the playerbase is full of jaded assholes.
>>333428787
if a few nutbags in a basement can run private servers I'm sure Actiblizzard could figure it out.
>>333428648
>Whats wrong with playing on the official servers?
Dead
You sit in garrisons all day
PvE has ZERO challenge to it
No content
>>333428819
>Vanilla you never leave your Capital City.
Did they even play the game..
![Found+the+retard+that+buys+things+that+shouldn+t+even+cost+_1813b58280714c52acad68297b1a12f9[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/sk4AKgb.png "Found+the+retard+that+buys+things+that+shouldn+t+even+cost+_1813b58280714c52acad68297b1a12f9[1].png")
>this thread
>>333428770
Hidden bar most likely.
Why would you have buttons shown with abilities that have no cooldown?
You do know your own keybinds by routine, don't you?
>>333428303
>homogenization of classes
>havn't played wow since tbc
>re sub after a few years
>my rogue can heal himself
>vomit in disgust and cancel sub
>>333429126
That doesn't make it worth the investment.
>>333427980
>is more than enough proof
how many people play WoW? How many continue to play the current version and buy stupid shit off the Blizz store? How much work would it take to run a constantly updating and working legacy server to pull in the few people that aren't sick of Blizzard and aren't already playing?
Yeah, a great idea. All for one month of sub time for people to clear all the easy content they release, grow bored, and wait for another content pack to sub for another month. What a great business strategy.
>>333428997
My sides
Great
>600 hours played
The world pvp was incredible, I'll miss it
>>333428954
i didnt play nostalrius for 10 years, and i had fun progressing to bwl
also i didnt pay a single cent
This is fucking hilarious
Not going to miss "le epic Nostalrius XD" threads everywhere.
lv60 paladin,
FULL TIER 1 AND 2
RAIDBIS HEALING GEAR
NIGH RAIDBIS TANK GEAR
LOK'AMIR
ZG TIGER
Absolutely full of other stuff.
nice
>>333428648
A pirate server with an experience exactly like vanilla wow got shut down.
It's not clear whether blizz forced them to shut down, or whether it's all a lie and they just couldn't afford the server anymore.
Not much content to do.
>>333428770
>pressing filler buttons in rotation is skill
Blizzard gave you guys... the cold shoulder!
>>333428995
>That would require money though.
Oh yeah, it would really bankrupt them to make a big announcement on their website and then sit back as millions of threads on /v/, reddit are made.
>tfw other people's misfortune
>go to /nosg/
>that fucking music
>>333427419
this
>>333426381
why would they sue individual people? they only go after businesses
>>333429134
>PvE has zero challenge to it
>LET'S PLAY VANILLA SERVERS INSTEAD FOR DA REEEL CHALLENGE: RES GEAR FARMING AND TWO BUTTON ROTATIONS
>>333429243
LIKE TEARS IN RAIN
>>333429097
Now you know how blizz feels when other people use their IP ;^)))
#rekt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR20QH5UHoM
When Blizzard made an April Fools joke about classic servers on their Twitter, a lot of people pointed out Nost as a popular, successful classic server.
The server gets shut down by Blizzard a few days later.
Coincidence?
>>333429349
i've never seen a post summing up 4chan better than this and i've been here for 9 fucking years
>>333426574
They don't want to admit that the game is dying.
CRZ is fucking garbage and they're going out of their way to do literally everything possible except merge the realms
>>333429134
What are ''garrisons''
>>333424765
>tfw rational human being that was old enough to not have childhood/teenage nostalgia for vanilla
>tfw all these kiddietears
Vanilla was trash and you all know it, deep down.
>>333428303
Homogenization of classes was a good thing; 90% of talent trees were either redundant or completely useless.
If you had a healing spec you were a healer, if you weren't X class you probably didn't even get picked to heal. If you weren't a warrior, you weren't tanking, if you were a warrior you weren't going to DPS and so on.
>>333428303
I couldn't believe the shitty justice/valor system they were using for a while where downing bosses gave you points or tokens and you turned the tokens in at vendors to get your raid sets. I was like "Really? I don't fucking get my tier set off of bosses anymore? Now I just earn shitty tokens that I turn in?" I was relieved to see they did away with that at least.
>>333426625
normal people ie not lawyers don't care about dumb cuck shit like that. fuck you kike
>>333429471
Instanced faction hub
Like a capital city, but you're alone. It's as lame as it sounds.
thread theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrUaLMKepC4
Ah, I remember the challenge of mashing the Shadowbolt button the entire raid encounter.
>>333428890
>The lowest pop current server is 68K
t. Blizzard PR
>>333429471
Farmville: WoW edition
>>333429542
>>>/pol/
>>333428969
Yes, the population of Nost is truly a worthy sample size for Blizzard. Disregard that these people are paying nothing to log in and look at their character.
I'm sure the huge audience you imagine an official private server would draw in would be happy to pay $15 a month to stare at their character that has already finished most of the content and is only waiting for raids to start. The people that are happy with doing that already have a game. It's calledWoW
>>333429430
>tragedy in real life happens with scores innocent dead people
>anon posts "mfw when americans/europoors" with a woman laughing hysterically
really nothing else like 4chan is there
>>333427963
Don't act like you wouldn't do the same if you were in Blizzard's shoes. I guarantee you would have something like that shut down so fast everyone's head would be spinning. I'm surprised Blizzard let it go as long as they did.
Here's the red pill:
Nost admins were horrible at scripting and couldn't get AQ working. They collected all the donation money and stopped paying for hosting fees.
Now they're damage controlling and putting the blame on blizzard while they snort their donation money coke and fuck them hookers.
>>333429406
>Being vocal faggots about something questionably legal on social media and forcing them to deal with it
Well duh
>mfw remembering there are people who bought gold from the chinese on this server
>>333426247
You shouldnt have to. 15 bucks a month is a dirty scam.
>>333426375
Gamer District
>>333428828
Yes, and people have years of WoTLK experience, more experience with WoW overall, and less of a reason to sit around when they know what the coming content is. How long do you think it will take people to finish raids they have done before, run out of content, and unsub until the next content pack?
>>333429225
>Constantly updating.
I don't think you understand what you're talking about.
>>333429621
i literally never ever go in /pol/ because i disagree 99% of people in it on 99% of things. it just so happens that i like saying The Bad Words. whats more is that it gets you so riled up, which outs you as a redditor.
>>333429107
It is the playerbase that these tools have created. Sure you CAN get groups the old way, but no players actually will.
>>333429526
>mfw when going through the thread nice and slow, enjoying each post as they near the realization it's all over
>>333429724
Nost was entirely funded by a french millionaire kid
So, no.
>>333429325
Yeah big announcement of legacy servers, then you have to prepare of the influx of players that will log in at the same time, then you would have to pay people to make sure everything will run smoothly and your legacy server won't shit the bed for hundreds of people trying to log in at the same time, and also make sure it doesn't affect the functioning of the retail servers and people playing on them.
all of that = money to spend for a profit of what? 10k shekels? honestly you would get more out of the shop store in a week.
>>333429379
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KYYVrBX4v0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KYYVrBX4v0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KYYVrBX4v0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KYYVrBX4v0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KYYVrBX4v0
>>333429795
You don't even need to pay for WoW as long as you have a max level character. Just buy a token for 40k gold, you can get that by farming one or two hours each week.
