blizzdrones on suicide watch
Meeting for them be sued by the blizzard patrol! More like!
This is just a PR Meeting, nothing more
They'll announce how sorry they are, but IP laws left them no other choice
Not the first time this has happened
>>335909787
/thread
Blizzard will never do vanilla progression servers because people playing retail will realize what a fucking disaster it is and how much they have fallen since then.
>>335909534
MFW Metzen will rape them like dogs in his SM basement.
This guys will be more sperm then men after he is done with them.
>>335910148
This website is 18+ only
>people honestly think vanilla servers will be popular
>>335908776
They're going to get jobs at blizzard, they'll be working on retail WoW
>>335909787
True, but it's the first time there's been such a shitstorm over it
>>335908776
>tfw this is his last post
>we will never see Mark Ken again
>he will be forever lost in Metzen cocaine rape chamber
>>335910245
But... they already are.
>>335910423
>a few thousand players
>that play for free
>>335909787
They already said that. Why would they have a meeting to say that they closed down the server cause their lawyers said it was dangerous to their IP?
Think b4 you post m8
>>335910245
maybe current wow is that bad where vanilla is a way better game
>>335910090
>80,000 people played vanilla privately for years
Good try buddy but throw some effort into your half baked opinions before you hit Post. Anybody playing vanilla wants to play vanilla, its not some sort of seizure that brainwashes us, I know vanilla is a pain in the ass. Its also my favorite, and the WoW I'd rather be playing.
>>335910234
The way you phrase that made it sound like we should all be posting porn nonstop.
I just don't understand why they didn't open a classic server. Oldschool runescape was such a massive success it literally overtook rs3 almost overnight.
>>335910492
>vanilla is a way better game
>nostalgiafags legitimately believe this
>>335910245
They said the same thing about Oldschool Runescape.
>>335910245
They will be. Blizztards would literally play a video game consisting of virtually eating shit, no, no, eating REAL shit if Blizzard packaged the fecal matter and slapped a logo on it.
People dislike the idea now because Blizzard was against it. As soon as Blizzard says "Oh no, we MEANT to implement it later!" They will 180 and continue with the 'suck blizzard's cock' program.
>>335910594
i never played either, im just saying since the amount of players dropped a lot, there must be some reason as to why
>>335910464
>A few thousand
severe under statement
>>335910090
> people honestly thinking the game has fallen somehow
like man I played four characters to 60 on Nost and all, but part of the appeal is because the game is so bad compared to modern WoW. Modern WoW is not bad.. its bland. Sanitized, convinient, relatively easy. By no means is it poorly designed, like a lot of stuff in vanilla.
>>335910464
f-free FREE NOBODY LIKE VANILLA
>>335910689
the game is over 10 years old, I know me and my other friend stopped playing because we just grew up and got tired of the same game.
We are 29 now and you cant expect us to keep playing 1 game for so long.
>>335910729
The word you're looking for is sterile
It's so polished and streamlined it doesn't even have an identity anymore, it's become the most generic prototype mmorpg in existence
>>335909787
:^) the post.
What you don't get is that they can literally hire the Nos team, extend their license out to their own server and it runs off of the blizzard banner and they slap a sub requirement on and they just make money. You know, like what the owners of Everquest did for project 1999 except it's free.
>>335908776
O SHIT IM SO FUCKING HYPE. but seriously if they do decide to do legacy they better not hire mark kern. I like the guy but he has a spotty as fuck record and could real fuck this all up
>>335910689
The game changed from what they wanted, doesn't mean the game didn't get better in some aspects but worse in others.
>>335910594
>New art style looks like crap
>Microtransaction store
>fucking selfies
>game is easy as shit now
Yeah I'll stick with older versions
>>335908776
it's all just a publicity stunt, this is only the beginning of the leadup to expensive legacy servers with only half the features that people want
>>335910921
Absolutely, Blizzard is going to let a hacked together pirated server be officially affiliated with them and let it run under their name
You're completely delusional
Nostfags are literally Goobergate 2.0
Bunch of poor basement dwellers who can't pay for a sub, so they cry like babies when their bottle gets taken away.
>>335910090
If they do bring legacy servers in, WoW will be the top streamed game. Blizzard needs publicity right now if they want Legion to be a success. If they were really greedy, they honestly could require everyone to update to the most recent expansion to play vanilla. People would still do that
>>335910148
are you trying to say metzen is going to corrupt the nostalgia devs?
>>335910245
They will be popular for half a year or maybe a year or so. After that people will run out of stuff to do and since legacy servers can't be updated with new shit everyone will unsub (see current WoW state - it's been almost a year since latest content patch and the game is a ghost town). I can totally see why blizzard don't want to invest in these things.
>>335910689
the amount of players didn't drop after vanilla. BC, WotLK, and Cata were the height of WoW's popularity
I wouldn't write this off so quickly. Blizzard has already expressed extensive interest in hiring new individuals to work on their older titles (Warcraft 3, Diablo II, among others) to modernize some aspects of them so they work with the Battle.net launcher and newer operating systems, possibly at higher resolution, too.
Is it really so farfetched they'd hire a team at low cost who already knows the classic WoW code to have them clean it up more, implement Battle.net features, and release it as "WoW Classic"? It's still a pipe dream, I agree, but it's not as farfetched as it might seem.
>>335910245
The runescape devs were smart enough to implement legacy, only to find out its way more popular. Turns out they don't give a shit because they're making money.
I never actually played WoW before but I might consider trying legacy servers if they actually make them available.
I figure a bunch of my friends would probably be into that so it'd be nice to try it out with them.
This is a PR stunt. They want to be seen as the good guys, hands being forced by law even though they didn't want to shut it down. They'll have a pointless discussion in which they talk about legacy WoW, and they're somehow going to coerce the Nostalrius team into releasing a positive statement about ActiBlizz
>>335910601
>They said the same thing about Oldschool Runescape.
Playing devil's advocate here.
Oldschool runescape is a literal internet meme. People ironically joined the servers. Even people who never played runescape know about the "buying gf" meme.
Oldschool WoW never really left an impression on people. It was always kinda bland. Even people who love WoW should admit this.
>>335911082
I don't think it has anything to do with not wanting to pay, because you could find private servers for much newer x-packs. Why is it so hard to believe people just wanted to reexperience vanilla wow? Why does it have to brushed away as being poor or not knowing what you want? Those assumptions straight up aren't true for the majority of players
>>335911082
I'll take the bait. It has just about nothing to do with paying for or being able to pay for a sub.
>>335911048
>a server made by a dedicated team
>took 5 years
>out of pocket
>no money payments for item stores and levels required and doesn't fish for donations
>the community sees them as true WoW fans
Yeah dude you're so right. Blizzard wouldn't hire the small devouted team that a quarter million and then some people support. You actually think that people look at Nos as some neckbeard hacker group that thought they could steal another persons idea for money.
If blizzard hired them, think of how the community would view it. "Man these guys at blizzard could have just done it themselves but they employed these dedicated fans because they created the community themselves and it would be wrong to take passion from their work." People would be all over blizzard.
>>335911425
>Oldschool WoW never really left an impression on people. It was always kinda bland. Even people who love WoW should admit this.
BC and wrath were bland? You shut your fucking mouth right now
>>335911425
>People ironically joined the servers
OSRS is full of memers but for the most part they unironically like it.
WoW was always more popular than Runescape back then as well.
>>335910594
Yeah vanilla sucked. I hated that I couldn't post on twitter while I played. WoD is so much better
lol fuck this i play vanilla wow because its free
blizzdrones btfo
>>335911628
Oh sure, they might hire them or use them as "advisors" for current WoW, but they'll certainly not hand them a license to run a pirate server
I don't understand why Nost has anything to do with legacy servers, why would Blizzard even bother working with them, if they decided to make them, they should already have 100% working code for the servers in the archives.
>>335911425
kill yourself
Why are /v/ so quick to hop on blizzard's cock?
Is it the contrarianism?
>>335911164
You do realize Nos's plan was to release the expansions and gate the content just like blizzard did right? That will at least give them 4 year of fresh content and enough time for blizzard to see if there is a market for this type of demographic. I feel like the ultimate goal here is to make WoW less of a facebook game and really bring it back to its roots
IF blizzard decides to introduce legacy servers nobody is going to actually pay a subscription to play them. lets not kid ourselves.
The main reason anybody actually plays on this shit is because it's free and nostalgic but I highly doubt a person with a wow subscription is going to purposefully take content away from themselves.
>>335911425
>old wow was bland
Well we all know who joined post Cata.
>>335911425
I know a group of like 8-10 people who unironically enjoy OSRS. You're literally wrong.
>>335911441
Most people who ACTUALLY played the game back then don't give a flying fuck about it anymore. Those who cry for legacy servers are mostly newfags who heard that vanilla was better and don't even know why they want to experience it. The moment they get their legacy servers they will realize that getting to max level will take them 2-3 months. They will be bored after a week and return to legion xpac or whatever.
>>335912061
Do you even understand how packed nostarius was?
No regular server could compare.
>>335912000
There is a single streamer for OSRS who regularly pulls more viewers than all the WoW streams combined.
That's pretty fucking sad desu.
>step on their turf
>get assassinated
feels good man
>>335911909
>hop on blizzard's cock
Believe it or not blizzard actually used to make some pretty great games. That being said most /v/ fucking hates what blizzard has become and really just want to see them make good games again (its not going to happen)
>>335911847
>kill yourself
but why?
I can't think of one charming thing about oldschool WoW except "LEEEEEROY JENKINS" (maybe) and the commercial portrayal from south park.
You guys really have to admit that WoW contributed almost nothing to memes. Say what you will about being a fun game, but we're speaking memes here. Memes are important because memeability is the meme-factor that will dictate future success to new memecomers.
>>335911959
This
The amount of people who want legacy servers and the amount of people who would be willing to actually pay for legacy servers are two very different numbers.
>>335912061
I played the game back then and I was playing when Nostralius got shut down. You are making a bunch of assumptions about how other people view that game and that's not an argument. I'm telling you straight up as a man who played the game when it came out and then came back to reexperience it: people who want to play vanilla actually want to play vanilla and the people I saw getting to 60 sunk considerable hours into the game. You don't have to share my opinion but you can't make rash generalizations all over the place and feel like you're winning somehow
>>335912061
fucking this famicom.
Vainilla is also a shitfest when it comes to balance.
Burning Crusade was the only remotely enjoyable expansion.
Still it was underwhelming lorewiseand thats for killing my favorite heroesand knowing the fact that blizzard didn´t bother to add a spellbreaker class and keep the exclusive classes
a minor peeve of mine , but hell it would´ve been cool.
>>335911956
They can't even handle the release of 1 xpac in two years without fucking up servers for 2 weeks during launch and a year-long content drought. What makes you think they can simultaneously update and maintain 2 versions of the game?
>He actually spent $130 dollars on overwatch
What a fucking retard. I know this is bait but I honestly feel bad for you
>>335911909
>le contrarian meme
I hate this , opinions aside , thats actually desperately clinging on to something from your past that was good. Blizzard itself is that. shadow of their former selves that got ruined beyond imagination when they sold out to activision.
>>335911832
Problem is this situation has rattled the WoW community.
>people refunding legion
>canceling subs until "muh legacy"
Pristine server post only made it worse. Of course just look at how the internet works, things are only going to get worse, bandwagoning hate against blizzard is spreading like wildfire. If OW doesn't sell well, all their hope is bent on Legions release and so far people aren't impressed by the Alpha. WoW Is falling in the streaming numbers and it's only going to get worse for them. They dug their own graves when they fucked the whole game up to appease a different target audience.
>>335909787
>i-it's never gonna get 100k!
>p-petitions don't matter anyway!
>mark kern is an h-hack!(this is probably true desu senpai)
>j-jones on you pristine servers are even more shit!
>i-it's just a pr meeting!
How did blizzcucks managed to get BTFO so many times in this rapid succession?
>>335912304
>Vainilla is also a shitfest when it comes to balance.
So is modern WoW. Arcane mages do nearly twice as much DPS and half the specs in the game, and nearly 4 times as much as some. Fire Mage's best in slot trinket is a Strength Trinket from a 5man (or an Agi trinket from anotehr 5man, depending on what you prefer).
>>335908776
I love vanilla and all but whats with the 40 year old weeblord?
>>335908776
They're going to kill him, aren't they?
This is the same shit Valve pulled with that German hacker who leaked the HalfLife2 beta. Invited him over with the fucking FBI waiting for him.
What a moron
>>335912204
Who would you rather fug?
Jessie or James?
>>335912248
BLOCKED
>>335912470
Why even bother posting in this thread if you're this clueless?
>>335912457
>blizz
>ever good at balancing a game
Another reason why overwatch will bomb hard.
>>335912350
LOL poor nostcuck detected. Don't worry kronos might still be up for a few more weeks :)
>>335910090
this to be honest
>>335912248
Roguecraft.
But I'm not a Nostbaby who wants legacy servers. I'd rather live in the now instead of the past.
But Roguecraft is always a thing I watch once a year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqx1CFomKMI
>>335911082
if you managed to get that triggered and BTFO by crying basement dwellers, what does that make you?
>>335912457
This is only relevant at the and of the xpac and only in BIS mythic gear. That means it's not relevant for like 99% of the playerbase.
>>335910090
>Blizzard will never do vanilla progression servers because people playing retail will realize what a fucking disaster it is and how much they have fallen since then.
Except the current game is better than vanilla. Call me back when Rag gets more than 3 moves.
>>335912204
>$130 for a TF2 clone
LOL
>>335912309
Nos was doing a good job up until shutdown. If they actually had a sub fee to support their servers it could easily be done. Now I'm not saying that it will be successful. It will be interesting to see if their playerbase is really willing to pay for this game.
>>335912204
The king of kucks
>>335912759
>being poor and a fag
lol nice dude :D funny meme btw :P
>>335912204
call me when they introduce 16v16, or at least 8v8
>>335908776
They will be murdered and body's dumped in the Blizzard vault
>>335912434
It's actually kind of sad. The few remaining warcraft fans are coming to realization that their shitty facebook game isn't as popular as they want it to be. This game is a lifestyle to some people
>mfw I'm still gonna play on Kronos
Am I the only one who would rather have a WotLK server instead of a Vanilla one?
>best zone music
>best raids
>best community interaction
>best pug experience
>>335913080
WotLK sucked
>5.5 million subscribers for WoW
>Only 10k people played Nostalrius daily
Nostalrius was free too. There will never be legacy servers.
>>335912828
>being dumb and demented
lol nice dude, hope your disability money was worth it.
>>335913080
Shittiest PVP too
>>335913136
Fuck off Nostfag. Wrath was the pinnacle of PVP.
>>335913080
Senpai you missed
>most comfy zone aka Grizzly Hills
>>335913228
More like you're too casual
>>335913080
Me desu, but I played it much more casually than I did Vanilla/BC.
>>335913235
t. bandwagonner
>>335911156
I am just saying after he is done with them they will only think about Metzens cock and forget about why they even came to him.
>>335913080
As much as i like WotLK
It buffed paladins , and i hate paladins.
Burning Crusade all the way.
>>335912967
doesn't work in such games,
Did you try to play dirty bomb 8 vs 8 its a total cluster fuck.
>>335913192
I daresay that most people had probably never heard of Nostalrius.
Keep in mind that old-school private servers for Runescape also had similarly "small" playerbases. Now look at OSRS
>>335913417
Only in specific patches was Paladin OP you retard
>mmmmm-muh vanilla
bring back tbc or wotlk
>>335913228
I would disagree. PvP in WotLK was fucking fantastic. Literally ANYONE could PvP and have fun, regardless of class. Sure, DKs were fucking annoying to deal with below 80 pvp, but at max level it was great.
Then again I'm pretty fucking biased because I was a 100% ArPen marks hunter and I tore through the anus of anyone who challenged me like a hot knife on butter.
>>335908776
And Mark Kern will never be heard from again.
>>335910245
I'm sure they will. I have two normalfag ex-military buddies of mine who used to play retail until they gave private vanilla servers a shit. They don't want to go back to retail now. The game used to be satisfying to play.
>>335908776
>implying it's not a trap to arrest them
>>335910464
Hey retail is "free". Hmm now why isn't that popular?
>>335913532
Yeah Hunter was fucking great at BiS
Outrange everyone, they can't fucking run
Also had a Paladin, Druid and Mage at around 6k gearscore full Wrathful. Good times.
>>335913417
>Patch 3.0 hits
>I'm running around in Hellfire Peninsula on my Enhancement Shaman
>See a Ret Paladin
>"Oh boy free kill!"
>Pop everything
>He fucking bubbles
>He bubbles and he's chunking my HP
>His bubble ends and I'm barely alive
>he hits my with a fucking 7 second stun
>mfw
>>335913215
lol dude chill out :P I'm lucky enough to have a good job so I don't have to rely on pirate servers ran by criminals for my entertainment :/ hopefully Taco Bell will give you a raise before Legion! XD I still can't decide between hunter or paladin!
>>335913468
>Holy paladin in full vengeful throwing flash of light heals for 30k
>not buffed
lamo. I bet you are a Retardin.
>>335908776
oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit
>>335913649
>FoL heal for 30k
BULL
SHIT
Even in FULL WRATHFUL with 3300+ bonus healing FoL will crit for about 10k at best.
>claim to hate Blizzard and call anyone who likes them a shill
>as soon as it looks like something might happen with legacy servers suddenly you like them again
and here I thought Blizzdrones were the cucks
>>335908776
>>335913532
100% ARP combat rogue killingspree afk players on flying mounts in mid air will always be the most fun I had in wow.
>>335913417
You're supposed to play them with your face.
>>335913635
Looks like you got outskilled soon
>LELE BLOW MY COOLDOWNS GG
>huh, he's not dead
>OH, OH MY GOD, AAAAAAAAAH
>Grounding Totem
>Ghost Wolf
literally
retarded
kill yourself
should've just backed away when he bubbled, wait for it to run out but nooo
>blizzdrones on suicide watch
Seems like they are about to thrive again because a few hundred thousand Blizzard dickriders can't get off on the past. People fully ready to pay a sub fee to Blizzard again.
>>335913532
>be arpen marks hunter
>in icc
>run out of arrows mid fight
>sneak in with the melee and raptor strike the fuck out of the boss
>still top the damage meters
What a time it was...
Just came here to say
Paladins are the most low-risk,high reward class in the game.
If you pick paladin , kindly kill yourself.
>>335908776
I have seen this story before.
The man who hacked HL2 still in jail.
>>335914107
>low risk
If you're good yeah
In PVP your heals will hit hard but you won't have the mobility while healing like a Druid or Shaman does, also a Shaman/Druid have superior CC over you. The only thing a Paladin does have is blessings like Freedom, Aura Mastery.
If you couldn't beat a Paladin you just sucked, sorry to say.
>>335911156
>What are you trying to tell me, that I can write corrupted characters?
>No, Pier. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.
>the only logical approach Blizzard could take besides Pristine Servers is to open expansion-locked realms for every single expansion, including ones going forward
are there really people on this board stupid enough to think a business would admit that there was a stopping point for a lot of people?
>>335908776
>muh vanilla game
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, THIS IS SOOOOO STUPID.
>>335914215
Considering they invited the Nost team to visit them, yes. Legacy servers are happening RIGHT NOW because their "pristine servers" idea fucking bombed.
>>335910594
This is not about believing, this is simple fact, if you don't like facts then continue playing spinoff expansions, Legion is around the corner.
NEO-WOW SHITS AND BLIZZDRONES
ABSOLUTELY
COMPLETELY
UNEQUIVOCALLY
BLOWN
THE
FUCK
OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT
>>335914254
your dumb post says nothing
>>335914283
They're not going to do just the base game, you fucking moron
There's no money in a game with not even a remote semblance of class balance and Dishonorable Kills
>>335914370
Yes they are. It's why they have invited the Nost team, to get a vanilla server working. They'll see how it pans out, after a while they released the BC version and allow people to either switch or stay, after that WOTLK, etc.
I dont get why this Mike Kern guy has positioned himself as the leader of this thing. Is he wanting his old job back or something? Cant he get a job anywhere else?
I certainly wouldnt want to be working at blizzard in 2016 if I didnt have to. They have lost their soul and what they were. They are just shell of what they once were.
If I was like the ghost of Christmas future and went back to 1998 and let that blizzard play starcraft 2s campaign im sure they would be disgusted. I could fix the timeline and make starcraft great again.
>>335911425
>Oldschool WoW never really left an impression on people. It was always kinda bland. Even people who love WoW should admit this.
You're trolling right?
>>335911198
WotLK was peak, Cata is where subs started going down = where blizzard started dropping ball and didn't stop to this day.
>>335914435
Because private servers are so bug-free and totally like the real thing that hiring some frogs would be the best option
https://report.nostalrius.org/plugins/tracker/?tracker=14
>>335914550
Hope you realize how fucking stupid you sound one day.
>>335914121
The difference here is that people actually give a shit about Legacy Servers, while few gave a shit about stolen HL2 source code.
>>335914625
That didn't stop 12,000 people minimum from playing the game now did it. :^)
>>335910090
No becuase a lot of people PREFER "new" wow over vanilla.
>BLIZZDRONES ON SUICIDE WATCH
>NOW WE GET TO PAY TO PLAY THE OLD SHIT
>>335911959
>>335912284
It's been proven numerous time that it isn't about sub, stop being desperate, your game is shit and market demands change, simple as that.
>Blizzard has already been thinking about going B2P
>They meet with Nost
>Offer to allow them to run the only official vanilla server
>No sub fee
>Just need to buy the box
This is my dream
Theres so much anger in these threads jesus christ
>>335915008
>no sub fee
>>335915008
>no sub fee
lol poor. just proof nostcucks can't afford the real game haha
>>335915008
>ActivisionBlizzard
>No sub fee
>>335913192
They barely have 3-4M lol, that was the reason they stopped reporting subs anyway
What will Blizzcucks do when legacy servers are released?
They would need at least 3 servers for each region to cope with the estimated number of players if they go through with this.
>>335914698
>80000 people daily!
>25000 people daily!
>12000 people daily
>8000 people daily!
Why is it that ever nostcuck has a different number of the people playing the game daily? In this thread alone there are at least 3 different numbers given by you cucks. Quit trying to placate your shitty server, suggesting that people actually played.
You maybe had .1% of the current wow population playing
>>335915243
They didn't even have to start reporting subs to begin with, they only did it to brag about the growth of the game. Who the fuck in their right mind would think that Blizzard was somehow obligated to do that?
OP I'm willing to wager most of the people who negatively respond to these threads don't love Blizzard as much as they've grown to hate Nostalrius fags.
>>335915369
They already have plenty of dead servers, hardly an issue.
>>335914121
Wut? Tell me what happened.
>>335912828
Well I guess it's true, a cuck and his money are soon departed.
>>335915243
It steadied off at 5.5 around December, I don't think it's dropped down to 3 in such a short amount of time but if you have proof I'll eat my words.
>>335915408
>they only did it to brag about the growth of the game
or you know, because they're a publicly traded company and want to keep investors happy
crazy, I know
>>335915461
It didn't steady off at all, it was trending downwards hard. They were losing ~400k subs a month when they released their last sub count.
>>335910349
good
>>335915405
12k is the official number of minimum players each day you god damned retard. There were like 800,000 accounts or something.
A single server still managed to have more active players on it than MULTIPLE Blizz servers put together. Hilarious.
>>335915008
>no sub fee
>on a server that's supposed to be exactly like vanilla
>>335908776
>third party server host hosts vanilla WoW
>blizzard doesn't like that, asks them to remove themselves
>users complain and want their own WoW vanilla
>blizzard says "we just can't do it" despite there being a perfect example of a third party that did
>>335915528
>They were losing ~400k subs a month when they released their last sub count.
100k from August to December. Like I said, I'm sure it went down some more but not as drastic as some people think.
>>335915503
It's almost like WoW alone didn't make $900mil last year still despite these "low" numbers
crazy, I know
Blizz stopped announcing their subs
THAT'S how drastic the situation is
I bet most active accounts are chinks on those time based subs
>>335915746
Took the third party 5 years to do it you donut.
>>335910594
>There are actually people in this thread who like current World of Warcraft.
>people request legacy servers
>"You don't actually want it"
>Blizzard gets into talks to implement them
>"They won't actually do it"
>they are implemented and people play them
>"You won't actually stick around"
>people on these servers stick around
>"You're not actually having fun"
>>335915008
>>no sub fee
>someone genuinely believes it
>>335908776
>implying people campaigning for legacy servers aren't blizzdrones
those fucking wow addicts are frothing at the mouth just thinking about blizzard releasing vanilla servers. they're just frustrated because blizzard has kept them in chastity for so long
>>335915408
>losing 1M of players per year since WotLK
>b-but subs count couldn't change from the start of 2015 because WoD and Legion are GOOD
Yeah, they did to to brag about the growth of game, now they don't brag, they damage control and still can't accept it's them who fucked up.
>>335915875
DREAM
DREAM!!!!
anon does not believe it. Learn to read
>>335915749
its going to gain a 3 million with legion and the movie, then probably drop a million the next month or two after
if they go through with the movie ticket gives you a free copy + all expansions and 30 days game time, the game will explode in subs again
>>335915909
THIS
FUCKING THIS
THEY'VE BEEN EATING BLIZZ'S SHIT FOR SO LONG AND NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN
>somehow people think wanting an older version of the game doesn't make you a blizzdrone
>>335915749
>it's not drastic
>doesn't release their sub numbers anymore
lel
>>335916094
When people are saying they are down to 1Million just because they don't release sub numbers anymore then yea, that's drastic. People just trying to push this as the new Tortanic like every other game.
>>335916012
>the movie ticket gives you a free copy + all expansions and 30 days game time
1. You can do everything in the game in a month
2. Minimum wage theater kids will just steal the codes and sell them online
3. Blizzard wants expansions and microtransactions, not subs
>>335916234
>2. Minimum wage theater kids will just steal the codes and sell them online
That's still getting people to play the game. It's not like Blizz is getting a cut of the codes being given away for free with a ticket.
>>335911048
Hacked together my ass, it takes a lot of work to keep one of these private servers up and running. Even the shitty ones. This was one of the most polished and bug-free ones out there, they knew what they were doing.
friendly reminder this is just pr damage control.
there will never, ever, EVER be true vanilla servers.
EVER
screencap this post, frame it, mail it to your congressman i dont give a fuck. this shit is blown way out of proportion and you will NEVER get what you want.
fucking tools just give the shitty game known as wow more publicity
>>335915851
I don't like it, I don't hate it with a passion either. It's a skinnerbox like everything else now, what else would I play? I'm not touching another mmo because I don't like their fluff
>>335912434
>blizzcucks
Its not blizzcucks saying those things, its the regular people who dont play either version of WoW.
>>335915746
I don't think they cared about it that much, but they had to put nostalrius down because later on it could bite them in the ass legally. Nostalrius's player base also doesn't matter to them, since private servers are free to play. How many of these people would actually subscribe? Private servers are remade literally by hand, there's always some shit that either not working or working incorrectly. If blizzard were to launch a vanilla server, you'd expect it to function properly, unlike the third party ones.
>>335912967
knowing them if they did that the game would have even less tickrate
>>335910148
More like Metzen will call the bull ramming his wife to ask if he can come and rape those Nostalrius guys for him while he watches with a trembling cock cage.
>>335911628
>Blizzard wouldn't hire the small devouted team that a quarter million and then some people support
Blizzard isnt a fucking charity, they dont fucking care. They dont even need the team, they could easily do it themselves if they wanted to but they obviously dont.
>>335916807
>Metzen
>A cuck
No Anon, he's a cokefiend.
>>335914121
No he isn't, he went to jail for 2 weeks because the German police and justice system is logical.
Let's enter the looney world for a second and say blizzard announces that it will release a vanilla realm. What will the catch be? If you can imagine it being released what would they fuck up?
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they made up some bullshit that you need to buy a separate box or sub for it.
>>335915405
The fact that you're incapable of understand what people mean when talking about nost's numbers only means that you're retarded.
800,000 accounts, 150k active accounts, aobde 12k simultaneously at peaks and 8k simultaneously at low points. These are all actual facts that you can look up and see yourself, if you're not too fucking retarded to do so, that is.
I know it's just easier to suck Blizz's big black dick and sit in your garrison and pretend it's fun and that you have friends.
>>335917107
Option to play Legacy™ Vainilla™ servers is only available for premium WoW™ Accounts
Get your level 55 boost and starter gear today!
>>335917107
>"we'll let you play vanilla, but at one cost."
>"the whole game has but one music track"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1waVSu4adDM
>>335917308
You make it sound like this is a bad thing.
>>335917107
You have to have a $15 sub for the main game plus an additional $10 fee to play vanilla.
Well I want TBC servers. Will they cater to me too?
>>335917438
>>335917107
> extra payment
This is exactly what would happen with a vanilla server. You would need a new box or additional sub fees.
>>335917107
Would come with none of the technical improvements. View distance, character models, textures etc.
None of the QOL stuff like more space in bank and stuff like that.
>>335911000
>new art style looks like crap
LEL
>mfw I used to play on a WotlK private server with my friends
>I always used to complain that Cata was better
I just want pre-firelands Cata.
>>335917553
>implying clownsuiting has anything to do with artstyle.
low quality bait. but i´ll take it.
>>335917530
But it would also have none of the bad stuff like arenas, lfg/lfr, pruning.
Then again, even as a vanilla nostalgia fag I can easily add that vanilla skill balance was off by lightyears.
>>335908776
NO BLIZZARD STOP
DON'T GIVE IN TO THE BABIES
>>335917584
Cataclysm started off magnificently, with genuinely difficult dungeons and a bunch of fun zones to level further in.
Probably will only play to unlock Corrupted Ashbringer transmog desu famalam
>>335910536
>80 000
you mean 800 billion goy
>>335917676
Not only that, but leveling was a blast. Not once did I hesitate when starting a new character, and I never got to a point where I just didn't want to go to a certain area.
Too bad you still had to go through Outlands
>>335917649
the overall artstyle for Warcraft hasn't changed at all since WC3, though. And armor is part of the art design.
>>335917670
Fuck you blizzdrone Legacy servers will make wow great again
>>335917735
>implying you'll even get into naxx
>>335917676
>Do random heroic for the day as a healer
>Get VC
>I'm a shaman
>In there for 2 hours
It was fun but man that early month of the expansion was fucking hell for me.
>>335917825
Fuck you Blizzhate Legacy servers is not worth it. Do you honestly see yourself playing non stop on a Legacy server for 2 years?
YOU MIGHT
Sage and report all gamergate Nostalrius threads. Do your part to stop this cancer from metastasizing.
>>335918310
> Do you honestly see yourself playing non stop on a Legacy server for 2 years?
Not that person, but if it's an actual vanilla legacy server that blizzard doesn't fuck up with "added flavoring" and they keep it as it is, but with bug fixes and extra balance, then yes. Would play it for more than 2 years.
>>335918656
Yet I bet that you are the kind of person who complains about 18 months of SOO and FOH
>>335918767
Vanilla has a lot of meaningful content. In retail the only important thing is the most recent raid unless you pvp.
>>335918951
Like what? End game is endgame and you will get fed up with it
>>335913080
I'd be okay with it if death knights were balanced and there was no dungeon finder
>>335917902
Sure I will
>Pick prot warrior
>Have tier set
Man that was hard :)
>>335919002
Leveling is actually the majority of the game in vanilla. Playing casually, it can take months to even get to endgame. Compare that to retail where you are sped through the leveling process and pushed into whichever raid came out most recently. I had 2 characters on nost, a level 60 and a level 55. I spent 25 days combined on those two and didn't even enter a raid, yet I was still satisfied with my experience.
>>335910536
He meant people playing Warlords/Legion would come to realize how shitty current WoW is compared to vanilla, despite how shit Vanilla itself was.
>>335913994
Someone doesn't seem to understand how broken 3.0 retadins were.
>>335918310
No but after I finish gearing rather than repeat mythics Id much rather continue progression on a Vanilla server
>>335909787
>Nothing more!!!
>>335917553
icebane helm, shoulders of the bold, adamantium guantlets croms war axe, shit nigga, I played too much BC.
>>335910832
>Not returning to classic games and appreciating them like fine wine after several years in your vidya cellar.
tbqh even if they do legacy realms they should do balance patches regardless. fuck, imagine a TBC server. everyone would play warlocks for DPS and shamans for healers because they just know what's good. leveling back then was a commitment to the class you picked, for the good or the bad.
>>335919002
In a vanilla I can level for weeks if I want to and not give a fuck while having more fun than end game in current wow. Even on shitty private servers. Have more fun finding a random green or blue that doesn't even belong for my class, then getting a mythic drop on WoD.
Same for communication. Made more groups, had more fun dicking around and made more friends on private vanilla servers than any other private server or expansion on retail.
It wasn't the best expansion technically wise, but there's something about it that works and many people agree to this.
>>335910090
I will play both. Send my garrison followers to play the game for me in retail and log in to Vanilla.
>>335921013
too bad followers have no impact on anything in Legion
>>335909534
>>335909787
>>335908776
I missed something, what happened?
I havent been following this for a while. Why is Mike Kern positioning himself as the ring leader of this thing now? He wasn't even part of Nost.
Why do people in these threads never talk about the issues with vanilla? I started in BC and I've played casually on legacy servers but Fucking hell. Do you people not remember trying to get 40 people together for a raid? How about spending forever running back in MC only to have 1 person leave? Or the total of maybe 3 guilds per server being able to do NAXX? Did any of you even see Naxx? Useless specs galore, pidgeon holded into 1 spec per class or being useless. Talents/skills fucking everywhere!
These are just some of the issues with vanilla. It's slow, clunky and unbalanced. I'm not saying WoD is good but seriously you think vanilla was any harder other then just a time sink? The boss mechanics certainly weren't difficult as much as it was getting people for the raid.
I seriously hope blizzard releases these servers and there's next to no one on them and people complain just the same as they did back then. That's literally going to happen and it's going to be hilarious.
>>335908776
inb4 they just arrest the people that show up
>>335921339
Because he wants his job at Blizzard back so he can use their money to make another bus
oh no fuck off, please don't tell me they'll make a partnership with them
blizz is gonna make money with vanilla, while the actual game continues to rot and these pirates are gonna get money out of this deal as well
and blizzdrones are gonna happily pay blizzard for an old game that should be free
>>335921339
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60CXk503QsQ
>>335916807
you really think someone else is willing to fuck this?
1. Nostralius can no longer pay for their servers using donations, since the server host does not accept individual donations and if the Nost guys take it thats as if they're making profit from it
2. The only solution they thought up was for some magical Übermensch to pay the full price of the server hosting month per month, due on the 10th of every month. They announced this in the forums and had an open invitation for people to do it.
3. Nobody did it
4. Its literally time to pay up and they dont have the money
5. Nostralius magically gets "contacted" by English and French lawyers representing blizzard telling them to shut down their servers by the 10th. Quote: "or as long as the host lets us"
6. No images, screenshots, photos, copy-pasted text over these cease and desist "contacts"
7. Payday is up, blizzard shuts down their servers coincidentially at the same time.
8. Nost sends a sad letter to blizzard, riles up the fans, and promises to leak the source code for the servers.
9. To this day that hasnt happened. Its not like they're busy.
10. you're getting fucking played.
>>335921413
Because everything you mentioned except the fact some specs were useless literally only serves to make the game better.
We know that the game is unbalanced, but it always was and always has been. Doesn't mean the game is less fun.
We know the raids are technically less challenging, since the fights don't consist of as many mechanics as today. Still, the tools you as a player have to deal with the mechanics in vanilla compared to today are minuscule, which means the raids will still provide ample challenge. Also, in vanilla, the challenge of raids doesn't exclusively come from the actual instances alone, but from mandatory reputation farming, resist gear farming and consumable farming, things you practically have to do with a GUILD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER PLAYERS, to succeed.
>>335913635
>blew all his CDs before the bubble
>didn't run AFTER he bubbled
>didn't have grounding totem out
l2p
>>335922065
>Nostralius
It's NOSTALRIUS for fuck's sake
>>335916974
Metzen is the only cuck on the planet who fashioned his own bull.
Literally nothing happened yet you guys
Just because they agree to have a meeting, it doesn't mean anything
Nothing happened yet you guys
y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-yoou d-d-d-d-don't-t-t-t-t-t-t wa-a-a-a-a-a-ant t-t-that...
>>335913532
Sure it was fun running DK, War, Pala arena with 2x shadowmourne and healer legendary ;)
