FUCKING JEW BLIZZARD FUCKING GOD DAMNIT
IT'S NOT FAIR. THEY CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT
https://forum.nostalrius.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=42654
I TRIED SO HARD AND GOT SO FAR, BUT IN THE END IT DIDN'T EVEN MATTER
>I TRIED SO HARD AND GOT SO FAR, BUT IN THE END IT DIDN'T EVEN MATTER
I TRIED SO HARD AND GOT SO FAR, BUT IN THE END IT DIDN'T EVEN MATTER
I TRIED SO HARD AND GOT SO FAR, BUT IN THE END IT DIDN'T EVEN MATTER
Lets be honest here bud.
They are breaking the law, and blizzard has a right to protect their I.P.
I'm just glad we got a little over a year of this. Just move on.
what kind of faggots play version 1.0 of a game for 10 years
seriously, grow up
>They add vanilla servers
>>333434086
Mandatory reading for you and all the other kids coming to this thread:
http://mud.co.uk/richard/The%20Decline%20of%20MMOs.pdf
The author:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bartle
post yfw nostalrius faggots on suicide watch
>break the law
>get upset when a lawsuit drops
Good, people need to stop living in the past and move on.
>private servers
>>333433728
>Runescape makes old school nostalgia servers officially that you pay full membership for
>massively increases the popularity of the game and they make a shit ton off of it
>Blizzard doesn't
Why?
>>333434318
I know this guys daughter!! I had only ever heard of him because she told me he was semi famous.
/blogpost
>>333434529
Unlike runescape modern wow isn't a failure
>>333434395
>>333433728
wow must be really dying
>>333434529
They might just be clearing the way for that
>>333434529
Everquest has done this as well. Blizzard doesn't want to acknowledge that their new expansion may be BTFO by their Vanilla game
>>333433728
This is why I never bothered with Nostalrius in the first place. I'm actually surprised it lasted this long.
>>333434529
They won't admit they fucked up the game and will not acknowledge that someone wants to play the old one because it's better
>>333434318
A professor parroting what we've been shit posting for years, with citations.
We all could be professors.
>months upon months of people saying Blizzard doesn't care about Nostalrius because it's a drop in the bucket in terms of playerbase
>Blizzard jelly
>Same people claiming Blizzard doesn't care about a paltry 10k now acting smug like they knew this would happen
/v/ cycle
>>333434529
Because people only say they enjoyed vanilla, they actually don't :^)
>>333434605
>modern wow isn't a failure
You should have done the wise thing and leveled on Kronos. I'm going to have a blast ganking all the nost scrubs that will migrate here.
Why is everyone acting like shutting down private servers is a new thing?
They've been doing it ever since private servers have been popping up.
>Blizzard aren't allowed to do this!
>They deserve the right to free speech their server
>It says here in the constitution that...
The anger is fucking real and it's fucking hilarious.
I guess everyone needs that first time private server shutting down experience to learn to not play on them.
>Blizz retail servers will never be this populated.
>>333434647
>Blizzard "doesn't have the source code"
>it's actually true
>Nost team does it 4 free and posts it online
>They take it
>And host it for many-a-shekel
OY VEY!
OY GEVALT!
>>333433728
>using their product illegally
>"fucking jews want to shut it down!"
>>333434605
>wow isn't a failure
>>333434795
Until that's shut down aswell
Well, I guess it's time to return for retail and level my car for the new expansion and adventure
Anyone wants to join?
>>333433728
that sounds like a good thing
why is this bad?
They're opening the game up for public development and putting user accounts' privacy ahead
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
>>333434937
Fuck off Morhaime
>>333434605
>modern wow isn't a failure
Fucking lol. What universe are you from?
>>333434832
>the retail wow population will never be stuffed on just two servers
>>333434889
while still being the number 1 populated MMO in the world, I'd say thats still a success
>>333434827
There's nothing inherently wrong with private servers running a version of the game >10 years old as it does not infringe upon the modern game's money-making ability.
Now when you up-scale that to a public system, THEN it becomes a problem.
>>333434529
blizzard smelling their own farts thinking they are perfect and done nothing wrong ever. making vanilla server contradict that mind set
>>333434801
Nost thought it was untouchable since it was in a foreign country.
>>333435035
Blizzard main EU office in the fucking france
>>333434683
And that there lies the problem. Neo-Blizzards philosophy entails never acknowledging their wrong (the media fluff on how WoD was a resounding success) and continue to do what they can to push box sales with as little effort as possible (our team is the largest now, but expansions are $10 more and will have only two raid tiers and even greater content droughts).
I love vanilla, but people that play this stuff go into it knowing this is a possibility. All that /playtime lost I view as no different than everyone who spends their miserable existence plowing through Netflix or any other media. Did you enjoy it? Then fuck it, that's all that matters. If you're really that butt hurt about it, don't endorse Blizzard anymore.
>>333434395
>>333435000
For the size of Blizzard and for what the game was, it has been failing for the last 4-5 years. Just because other mmo's may not have the same playerbase, but they are certainly getting the numbers they need. Look at EVE for an example of this.
>>333434937
Fucking this. If there was true legal action being taken, servers would be offline real fucking fast. There's no grace period for this kind of stuff.
>>333433728
>Don't provide legacy servers to reel in suckers to play.
>Shut down private legacy servers under the pretense of potential lost profit.
I'll never understand why blizzard has gone so full retard in the last decade, people have been begging for legacy servers for years,and instead of just providing them the service you shut down private servers instead.
I fully get that it's their ip and they have the right to terminate it under copyright, but they stand to gain absolutely nothing by doing this because they won't provide the service it did.
Just fuck man, give the people what they want and stop killing your games.
>>333433728
>all those people who spent real money on leveling and gold services
I laughed a little
>>333433728
Did they take money, in the form of "donations" or otherwise?
>>333434937
>>333434980
While he is overdoing it, the development team is being retarded here.
>Let "insert random person here" lead you and gather your money if you want to keep the servers running!
I get what they wanted to do, but that is a retarded way to do it.
>>333435287
Is this US realms? My old server is low pop now; fuck.
>>333435236
EVE is a niche game with the most stable population of all the MMO's
EVE is getting a huge second wind because of the Easter War and player counts topped 40k+ last weekend
>>333435249
actually in many cases, to fully preserve a copyright you NEED to crack down upon all unauthorized use
Nostalrius may have been fairly harmless (may) but it could also have acted as the catalyst for other projects that would cause significant harm to both Blizzard's profits and its trademark's status.
>>333435287
>used to play on Dalaran before the oceanic servers were created
Huh
>>333435287
For a company that went through all the trouble of developing the tech to cross-realm instead of dealing with the stigma of merging servers that's some really weak damage control.
Now you faggots will finally know the painful suffering that everyone who played Auto Assault, City of Heroes, Tabula Rasa, and Star Wars Galaxies had to go through.
Get. Rekt.
>>333434318
>Richard Bartle has compared game players distaste for permanent death to general distaste for pedophilia.[8]
I like this guy
Who's hosting the source code? Torrent up?
>>333433976
What a faggot
>>333435249
The people dedicated to Nost were never going to sub to WoW and this takedown didn't change that.
But the people who played casually definitely will sub back to retail when Legion drops.
This was a wise move for Blizz. It probably took very few resources to issue this takedown.
>>333434232
GG good times. Some unique moments. A lot of nostalgia. Id pay for a Vanilla sub.
>>333434861
>urce code"
>>it's actually true
>>Nost team does it 4 free and posts it online
>>They take it
>>And host it for many-a-shekel
>OY VEY!
>OY GEVALT!
I wouldn't doubt those jews.
Nor will I doubt the fact that IF they release a vanilla server, they'll fuck it up and it'll have a 1/10th of nostralius
Fucking jews
>>333434735
Then why did I and many people enjoy Nost?
>>333434605
Nigger modern runescape is better than modern WoW. And modern RS is SHIT
>>333435382
Doesn't matter what goes on in memesec, CCP hasn't gone under yet with having barely a % of wow numbers
>>333435368
I stopped playing in 2012, is Arathor still a shit server?
>>333435506
>TAbula Rasa
Damn havent thought about that in like 8 years.
>>333435514
>HC players are pedos
>>333433728
>Nostalrius was all about the nostalgia and memories of the glorious vanilla days
>glorious vanilla days
Holy shit, how delusional can you be?
>>333435635
I don't know m8. I quit in 5.2. I don't even remember how long ago it was now. 3 years?
>>333435552
Real talk here:
Nost was mostly thirdworlds who wouldn't pay official subscription anyways.
>>333435506
You forgot Wildstar.
Does this mean I don't have to hear retards sucking off Vanilla and going HEH NOST IS GONNA KILL WOW whenever Warcraft is brought up? Thank fuck.
>make private servers
>try to jew people for it
>get destroyed by the giga-jew
If they kept it underground maybe this wouldn't have happened.
COME JOIN ME
Starting on a hardcore server on Ark, Survival Evolved.
Game feels like magic when you play it the first time, just like vanilla did back in the day.
Come grief with me /v/irgins.
>>333435660
Extremely
Ignorance is bliss. I prefer to fool myself, and be delusional than unhappy.
>Evil JEW blizzard
Typical underage not understanding how the law works.
You protect your product, or you lose it. They protected it. Oh, what's that? Companies since the age of the MMO have been shutting them down? Huh... What's that? Servers have closed due to running out of money, people getting bored and other general shitfests.
Oh, what's that? They took their donation pages down and demanded you paid directly to the server host? Huh. Odd that. But let's blame it on evil Blizzard anyway ;) PR Masterplan! Just as long nobody bothers to look in the threads from months ago >_<;;;;
Why the fuck do you faggots even care? It goes down, so what. Another will be up in no time, so people can be power hungry cunts making X and Y and Z.
Worse thing? It's a private server. Anything you get is barely an achievement.
Kek but rip
I had fun with nost
Also this reminds me of the FiveM situation with rockstar
>>333435735
Wildstar was modern level of wow garbage since day one
>>333435734
I leveled a priest 1-60 on Nost
There were some chinese and russians but they mostly kept to themselves. One of the rules of Nost was that you had to communicate in english
>>333435546
Only server I'd resub for is one that is permanently in the plague pre-wotlk event.
>>333434395
>>333433926
Someday love will find you
Break those chains that bind you
One night will remind you
How we touched
And went our separate ways
If he ever hurts you
True love won't desert you
You know I still love you
Though we touched
And went our separate ways
Troubled times
Caught between confusions and pain, pain, pain
Distant eyes
Promises we made were in vain, vain, vain
If you must go, I wish you love
You'll never walk alone
Take care my love
Miss you love
>>333435506
>Auto Assault
now im sad
fuck you
>private servers getting BTFO
>>333434605
>Modern wow isn't a failure
>>333435637
Richard is a Dick.
Also, it didn't help there was NO incentive to actually play the game properly. Exploitable as fuck.
>Have NPC area
>Use to buy items of any worth
>let the NPC mobs take it over
>fight them off
>get the currency for doing so
>don't defend the base when the counter-attack NPC force spawns 15 mins later
>let the base fall
>clear the base
>get the currency
>rinse and repeat
Was fun exploring though.
>>333435469
>everyone leaves my server in BC because not enough people
>become one of the worst servers in WoW
>gets merged with 3 other servers in MoP
>alliance still can't form a single raid group
>only horde guild is chinese
>>333433976
having a right doesn't make it right
this was not the right thing to do unless they plan to release their own progressive-release servers
>>333435824
>implying Nost shouldnt fall under fair use
>>333435834
WIldstar was literally an attempt to recreate vanilla wow in space
>>333434981
The one where WoW still peaks at 8x the population of the next most popular MMO.
How often did people go on geddon bombing runs at the AH in nostralius?
>>333434651
>Everquest has done this as well
Everquest did it in the wrong way though. I enjoyed the legacy servers but they caught up to modern way EQ way to fast.
>>333435843
I leveled a holy priest only to find out that, at least at that time, healers were fucking everywhere and nobody needed one
More news
Blizzard now deleting all threads about nostr closing down from their forums
You can call it normal, but before they only closed down topics about private servers
Current one
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/17611003559#1
>>333435998
It shouldn't
>>333435852
Enjoy it when it comes. Remember this post when it happens.
>>333435935
What is the definition of 'failure' for you, exactly? It's still No.1 in terms of subscribers. It's still No.1 in income (at least in the West). It still gets decent reviews.
>>333434395
>>333436006
No, it's not
It mossed all good things, like grind and many abilities, and shoenhorned wotlk type classes, something that no one wanted
And not forget about fucking bots
>>333436145
>shit all over forums
>mods clean it up
>OMG THEY'RE SILENCING US
Are you for fucking real? Kill yourself young man.
>>333435998
No. It isn't parody. It isn't satire. It isn't for research. It isn't for education. It isn't for a search engine. It isn't for loads of other things which Fair Use covers.
It isn't. End of.
>>333435287
>one of the only high pop is fucking moon guard
>mfw retail wow is now only played by futa cock draenei anal fucking each other
>>333434395
FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
>>333436145
>You can call it normal, but before they only closed down topics about private servers
And Nos is not a private server? Of course they would delete the threads you retard. You NosShills are exactly the same as the blizzardshills you all loathe. It's unbecoming.
FUUUUUCK
>Blizzard deletes a pose from their latest cashcow
>OMG THIS IS SUCH AN OUTRAGE STOP CATERING TO SJW FUCKING BLIZZARD #GAMERGATE #SEXYPOSESMATTER
>Blizzard completely prevent people from playing Vanilla WoW again
>It's fine stop crying Blizzard is in their right :^)
Fucking Blizzdrones
>>333436145
>go to Blizz Forums
>post about an illegal server hosting their product illegally
>complain about them protecting their product
>surprised they shut this shit down
Let me guess, you're going to screech "Free Speech", huh?
>>333434395
so long nostalgia fags
>>333436358
Closing and deleting are different things, you retard
>>333434395
>>333436392
>he desn't know about the new pose
nigger keep your shitposted updated.
>>333436338
Yeah, it's great.
>>333434731
>same people
found your problem
>>333436089
who did this?
It looks 10x better then every other wow animation I've seen
>>333433728
Never played on Nostalrius even though I played vanilla WoW back in the day. Too busy with FFXIV because FFXI always had a bigger spot in my heart than WoW ever could, but this is really shitty and I feel bad for the people who had found a home with Nostalrius.
The only people who could possibly be happy about this are rabid Blizzard fanboys that still kiss major Blizzard ass despite how much they've fucked over their fans over the past decade.
I'm really sorry you guys had to lose something that I imagine was really special to you.
Sincerely, a FFXIVfriend.
>>333436089
panda fags should be put in gas chambers desu
>he fell for the private servers meme
I can't believe there are faggots dumb enough to waste time on this shit, but then again this is /v/, and /v/ lately has nothing better to do than falseflag as Sonyggers and pretend console gaming is dying.
>>333436368
Upset about your level 34 dwarf priest?
I wonder if people will actually remember this years down the line. I honestly had a lot of fun playing to 60 on this server but I always knew this was probably going to happen. Especially with the popularity it created. I feel like this is the last dying breath of world of warcraft but ironically it didn't come from blizzard
>>333434395
It can't be an economical decision, since there are far more people playing on nost with retail subs running, than there are people who will resub to retail just cause nost is taken down. Also, people are cancelling those subs cause all their nost progress is taken away. Seems like a rushed decision if anything
>>333434795
they'd just get shut down too
even if they didn't, i only play on pve realms
>>333434995
I fucking wish they'd condense it down to 3. Or let you jump from realm to realm like changing chat channels.
Mine is completely dead. I'm lucky to see anyone at all.
>>333435236
>just because they're the most overwhelmingly successful, profitable and populated MMO doesn't mean they're successful!
>they used to be the most overwhelmingly successful, profitable and populated MMO by an even wider margin after all!
I feel sorry for this people
>>333436528
ellowas, he does Overwatch animations as well
>>333436089
s-sauce????
>>333436392
>situation 1 related to thing A
>gets reaction
>situation 2 related to thing B
>gets different reaction
LITERAL SHIT EATING SJW KEKOLD NECKBEARDS
>>333436295
Its used as a criticism of Blizzard and Modern WoW and for education of what an MMO should be like
I am the kind of slow player, you know? Always play stuff on the release order, dont rush stuff, spend several hours just seeing the games unfold.
After a long time, i finished almost everything Warcraft related and decided to start WoW, which is supposed to have a shitload of content and take a long time to complete. Of course, if im playing in the right order, im starting from vanilla, then TBC, and so on, and Nost seemed the best.
So 3 weeks ago i started Nost, and i had a lot of fun with my warrior, lvl 22 now, arround 60 hours in that character. Questing everything i see, including quests from other starting areas that give me no exp what so ever, and exploring all i see.
And now that...
It is not fucking fair.
>>333436089
>Postingthe females
>>333434605
Blizzard will be releasing a fast tracked progression server some time next year.
Do you think Pandaren women would go for human men?
>>333433728
You can blame all the twitch streamers for glorifying it.
So is anyone playing right now? how is everyone acting? Running around cities aimlessly? Clueless people still running instances or raids. I want to know
>>333436583
I played the first day did almost all the raids. I honestly have 0 regrets. I made some great friends and actually got to enjoy a real mmo experience other than the lobby room wow is today.
>>333436672
You must be Gawker's lawyer with that quality legal argument.
>>333434605
$15 deducted from your bank each month to play a mobile game
father... is it... over...?
https://youtu.be/vR20QH5UHoM
>>333436676
You knew what you were possibly getting into rolling on a private server. You literally have no one to blame other than yourself.
>>333433728
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YVrxFmheSc
>>333434395
>mfw they can't live out their nostalgia fueled dreams now
>>333436826
kek
>>333436727
Female Pandas are the cutest
>>333436624
Oh man that fucking hurts
>>333436789
Most Pandaren go after theTauren dong
>>333436802
oh shut the fuck up already, you're worse than people in GTA threads who say IV feels "more alive" than V
WoW always has been and always will be a form of social media, it's no less social now than it was back then with all the cross-realm capabilities, it's only more social than it ever has been by now. Get the fuck over it.
I'm so glad for this. Now we won't have annoying obnoxious cunts from nostalrius shilling their shitty server and saying how much wow sucks in every wow thread we try to have on /v/.
You lot can go fuck yourselves.
>>333433728
They probably would of been fine without the donations or buy gold shit.
They fucked themselves over.
>>333433728
I don't even care sinceI play on Excalibur
>>333436826
>private server thinks it's an achievement to have fifty or so people on their single fucking server that anyone can play for free
>>333436602
Not really, I've leveled so many toons that I don't think of it in terms of time investment anymore.
>the direction we took our game in was wrong
Said nobody at Blizzard, ever.
>all these retards here
>especially those whining and going JEWS JEWS JEWS EVIL FREE SPEECH CENSORED FAIR USE REEEE SCREECH SCREECH CAW CAW!
You do realise that Blizzard is likely to introduce Legacy servers when they reach unfeasable subscriber numbers, right? It's so fucking obvious.
5 Realms of Vanilla
5 Realms of TBC
3 Realms of WOTLK
2 Realms of Cata
2 Realms of MoD
2 Realms of WoD
And then the current realms of Legion (assuming this is the latest one). That way, they get to keep subscribers, get 'good will' to the majority of people who don't screech like children (ie; /v/) and you guys can enjoy vanilla/tbc/wotlk/mop/cata/wod and actually have an official tier support.
Imagine it. You log into vanilla and they release the content they did over the same period of time they did before. People can twink with gear that used to be the level it was pre-tbc. People can do the raids up to Naxx. People can have uniqueness and be awesome again and feel like they mean something. Rather than private servers where you realise "none of this really matters and can go any min".
I would re-sub to WoW if they did that. They could even add post-vanilla (or whatever) gear in. Or use models and stuff post-vanilla to add more bosses or raids.
Think about it. Vanilla had everything. From hard raids to world bosses that took effort. It'd be awesome.
Or. How bout this. Imagine Vanilla WoW, but with all the factions + main cities from the expansions thrown in? Being able to get Judgement Armour for a Blood Elf Paladin and it being relevant and not a shitty transmog would be a wet dream for me.
>>333435506
>3/4 of those are NCSoft
They can't keep getting away with it
>Guild Wars 2
>>333435992
>Was not the right thing to do
To them it was. Seriously, it's not about morals it's about money.
all i want is a private server where i don't fucking have to level, fucking leveling on nost was painful
>>333437039
>blizz fanboy thinks it's not pathetic modern WoW with its cross-server servers doesn't have more people in a capital city than a fucking private server for a version of the game from a decade ago
It is literally time for you to stop posting forever.
>>333436602
upset about people enjoying video games instead of niggerposting smug anime?
>>333437119
>it's about money
if it was about money, they'd make their own servers that do progressive release
>>333434718
>A professor parroting what we've been shit posting for years, with citations.
he's been writing about mmos since 1996
FUCKING REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>333437105
They've been saying legacy servers are never going to be a thing and they've been saying it since fucking WotLK.
Shut the fuck up and stop trying to be clever, it's not fucking happening.
>>333436392
have you not seen her new pose? it's literally from an old pinup and is still sexy
>>333436392
You do realise that the complaint wasn't about the pose being removed, or the fact the guy was a SJW, it was the fact the opinion of one person who made ONE post, a person who's massive post can be summed up as "My headcanon should be canon, why won't you think of the children? Fuck me being an actual parent!" managed to alter the design choice of a AAA game made by one of the largest companies in the world. One forum post.
>>333437105
>blizz pisses all over fans of the classic by destroying the most accomplished private server to recreate the experience there has ever been
>blizz thinks that if they pull a classic server out of their ass now that people are going to just forgive and forget it all
Yeah, no. I really doubt that.
>>333434318
>The Secret World and Age of Wushu are recent interesting examples
Credibility fucking GONE
>>333436826
>Blizz has the best CG team outside the NipLands
>use the shit ass in-game engine for their "le epic story" in WotLK
>ends up looking like amateur hour shit as a result
All these years later, I'm still fucking mad
>break the law
>lawsuits starting to pop up
>WOW IT'S NOT FAIR FUCKING SJW SHILLING JEWS HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW IT WOULD GET SHUT DOWN
>>333436992
Kronos is going to be shilled next :^)
>>333436963
What was the name of this comic/artist again?
>>333437105
That would take time and resources neither of which Blizzard has for WoW. Legion is looking to be WoD tier again.
>>333437237
They think they want it, but they really don't.
>>333437289
>fans begging blizzard for classic ser
I'm glad. This will mean an end to nostralrius shilling in wow threads.
>>333436624
They have tell Saturday to get to 60. They are about to grind their asses off and all for nothing.
why are people happy about this? I mean have /v/ regressed so hard that taking actiblizzards cock in the ass is the norm?
I dont even play WoW but you all are cucks
>>333433728
>>333437293
have fun wasting another 100 hours in a game blizz will take down
>>333437289
>break the law
proof?
ps. threatening a lawsuit isnt proof that what they were doing was against the law, thats up to the court. Blizzard just knows they can flex their wallet and scare Nost into not fighting this
>>333437289
Actually they can't pay the bills, so they're pinning the blame on Blizzard to try and get people on their side.
>>333437269
>blizz pisses all over fans of the classic by destroying the most accomplished private server to recreate the experience there has ever been
>there are people that actually think like this
>>333437348
Fuck, forgot my post was set up to go through after the timer finished.
Here's what I meant to say to >>333437289
>fans begging blizzard for classic servers for YEARS
>blizzard spits in their faces telling them to fuck off and that they "think they want it but they really don't"
>someone does what blizzard refuses to do
>turns out to be a major success all things considered
>now blizzard suddenly cares because they're butthurt as hell that it's seeing so much success
>>333437421
There's like 4 guys here just shitting nonstop, don't pay too much attention to them.
>>333436089
SAUCE
>>333433728
Well gee fucking wiz, if Blizzard just did the same exact fucking thing and hosted a "Vanilla WoW" server then it would take right off just like Nostralius.
But they'll never do that will they? Too bad they can't suck up their pride and admit their game is getting shittier and shitter.
Do they really think the people playing Nostalrius will suddenly renew their subscriptions because the server got shut down? Or is this a ploy to get people to buy Legion? How far have these fucks sunk since their glory days?
>>333437486
It really was one of the best private servers
>>333437421
Most people on /v/ love fueling shitstorms and being schadenfreudey fucks. They don't really care about the game.
>>333436826
take a shot of everyone in garrisons maybe
>>333437237
Do you know how many
>NEVER EVERs
Blizzard has gone back on at this point?
>NEVER EVER both factions on one account
>NEVER EVER faction change
>NEVER EVER buy leveling/game time
They're full of shit and you shouldn't ever believe what they say at this point because they WILL renege on it in favor of profit.
>>333437486
>there are people that don't believe this is the case
Blizzard is quite clearly mad as fuck that a private server is seeing more activity than their own fucking version of the game.
>>333437490
They've shut down private servers before, only a moron would think Blizzard is doing it out of incompetence and not because private servers are completely illegal and completely within their rights to issue cease and desists against.
You people wouldn't know logic if it fucked you in the ass.
>>333437237
How am I 'trying to be clever'? You really think they won't do it if the money and desire is there?
I can imagine you in 2008 going
>THEY'LL NEVER ADD A ITEM SHOP! SHUT THE FUCK UP AND STOP TRYING TO BE CLEVER, IT'S NOT FUCKING HAPPENING!
>THEY'LL NEVER ALLOW GENDER SWAP! SHUT THE FUCK UP AND STOP TRYING TO BE CLEVER, IT'S NOT FUCKING HAPPENING!
>THEY'LL NEVER ADD ACHIEVEMENTS! SHUT THE FUCK UP AND STOP TRYING TO BE CLEVER, IT'S NOT FUCKING HAPPENING!
>THEY'LL NEVER ADD REWARDS FOR THESE ACHIEVEMENTS! SHUT THE FUCK UP AND STOP TRYING TO BE CLEVER, IT'S NOT FUCKING HAPPENING!
>THEY'LL NEVER ALLOW FACTION SWAP! SHUT THE FUCK UP AND STOP TRYING TO BE CLEVER, IT'S NOT FUCKING HAPPENING!
>THEY'LL NEVER ALLOW RACE SWAP! SHUT THE FUCK UP AND STOP TRYING TO BE CLEVER, IT'S NOT FUCKING HAPPENING!
>THEY'LL NEVER ALLOW RANDOM BOE LEGENDARIES FROM TRASH MOBS! SHUT THE FUCK UP AND STOP TRYING TO BE CLEVER, IT'S NOT FUCKING HAPPENING!
Etc.
>>333437474
>im 14 and posting on 4chins
>>333437183
>>333437634
>p-please dont criticize my shitpost
>>333437289
they only cared because it got too popular, not because they cared if it was infringing their IP :^)
Nu blizzard really is one of the most despicable company
ITS OVER BROS
KRONOS
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>>333437421
People on /v/ will take whatever side just to make fun of an easy target. How new are you?
>>333437421
Make any thread even remotely related to the Warcraft IP and you'd get attacked by two dozen shills screaming about Nostralrius. Glad that won't be the case any more, it was real fucking tiresome.
>>333437574
I think Blizzard are trying to deter people from playing on private servers since after this people will be afraid of losing their characters after x amount of playtime.
>>333435287
Illidan is no longer full? In mop it had over 200k people
>>333437619
They would have no reason to shut it down if they didn't feel threatened or insulted by it in some way. They are obviously bitter about being wrong about the demand for classic servers and getting blown the fuck out by people willing to recreate them and play on them more so than they are willing to play on retail.
Can a human impregnate a pandaren?
>>333435506
You willingly chose to play games by NCSoft under some delusion that they wouldnt turn their newest, hottest thing into abandonware.
>>333437627
>>333437601
These. If>>333437237 truly believe they won't eventually do this you are some kind of retard. This server takedown is almost a smoking gun that they're thinking about it because they leave private servers alone for the most part unless they start charging for things.
>>333433728
>I'm mad a company is protecting its copyright
>I know, I'll be antisemitic
>that will solve all of my problems
>>333436368
thanks for proving out point
stay mad
>>333437284
He's right, they are interesting examples of trying to change up the MMO formula.
They're not good games, but there's no denying the differences between them and your standard-grade MMO.
>>333437737
People refuse to believe it but they did upgraded the servers capacity for legion after the wod fiasco.
>>333437289
>>break the law
infringement is a civil offense. if is up to the rightsholder to decide whether they ought to pursue a suit. if they don't, then nothing happens legally.
blizzard has a right to sue, but that doesn't mean they ought to sue. this is really basic western legal theory and you need to understand it if you live in the west
>>333437610
But it's not. You'd have to be retarded to believe nostalrius saw more traffic than all of the current WoW servers
>>333437591
I'll fully admit I'm stirring the pot because it's hilarious to see you fucks get so salty. Take the rose tinted goggles off grandpa.
Please don't tell me that those nostalruis players will go back to WoW after what just happen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsGrcdOyyRQ&t=30m03s
You're a bunch of fucking morons.
>>333436175
*tips fedora*
>>333437719
WoW is shit, nobody was shilling private servers now fuck off faggot
>>333437803
Yea, I remember fucking up my account abit temporary when they did it too
To Kronos we go
>>333436602
I'm upset over my level 23 dwarf priest. Goodbye devoutstout:(
>>333437809
I guarantee you it was likely seeing more traffic on a single server than most of Blizzard's official servers taken individually.
>>333433728
>tfw no Nostalrius
>>333437601
>NEVER EVER both factions on one account
Whut. You've been able to do that since day 1. Was that a beta thing?
>>333437689
you give them too much credit. There are genuine blizzdrones posting on this board that will be happy that other people are getting fucked over.
>>333437601
The guy is an idiot. I didn't even give him the (You) he was clearly hunting for.
>>333437610
>more activity than their own fucking version of the game.
Okay thanks for letting me know you're mentally retarded
>>333437208
Still, academic understanding of it vs the financial reality. We all can mutually agree the genre is on it's way to extinction.
>>333437889
Actually it was on the same realm, but either way they changed that
>>333436618
Maybe if you weren't born with autism, you would understand that losing profits overtime =/= successful for a business as big as actiblizz you fucking retard
>>333437771
>protecting its copyright
copyright isn't like trademark. you don't lose your copyright if you permit infringements
>>333437734
But that's so fucking stupid. It's like selling apples and then beating anyone up for selling oranges. Why not just fucking sell oranges yourself?
>>333437184
No. But you sound upset about the dwarf priest thing.
>>333434605
>modern wow isn't a failure
>>333434395
feels good not being a nostalgia faggot and being able to enjoy the real game
topcuck poorfags
>>333437889
not on PvP servers
>>333437920
afking in garrisons doesnt count as activity lad
>>333437873
Oh wow what an achievement. A bunch of people playing for free funneled into one or two servers sees more traffic than any single server out of many where people have to pay to use them?
>>333437619
They've shut it down because some guy at the top of Blizzard somewhere genuinely believes that a private server like Nost is effecting subs on retail. And yes these people are that out of touch with customers that they see this as an issue
>>333437860
I'm sorry buddy, truly. I don't wish for anyone's fun to be taken away.
I just enjoy riling up people who think Blizzard are badguys and in the wrong for doing this.
>>333437883
Holy shit that is fucking nightmare fuel. He must have died, or did he actually survive? I only skimmed it but it doesn't seem to say whether he actually made it out or not.
>>333437807
>blizzard has a right to sue, but that doesn't mean they ought to sue
Yes, it does. It completely does.
If you don't protect your own property in one instance of abuse, then anyone can come along later and do the same and argue why you let some people use your IP but not them.
That would be a legal nightmare.
>>333434395
Nostalgia fags BTFO
>>333437883
>dying in a place called "Nutty putty cave"
How embarrassing.
>>333437982
I never implied that Blizzard wasn't stupid pham.
>>333435531
I havent played retail wow for a good 2 years(played nost for 5 months), and i have no intention to play unless someone pays for me...
That being said if Blizzard released legacy servers i would immediately sign up for the $60 beta server with $10 subscription monthly, I need my vanilla/tbc WoW and i know of people who would do the same, they just want old wow nothing more nothing less
>>333438032
Blizzard Defense Force here everyone.
>private server for decade old version of the game put together in a cave with a box of scraps seeing more traffic than official servers of the game with a decade worth of updates
>>333437991
I'm saying you're a nigger.
>>333437845
>nobody was shilling private servers
They were. But they won't be any more.
Feels fucking good.
I'm not happy about this, but as it grew exponentially and Chinese profiteers made their way in, it seemed like an inevitability. Business is business, I can't really be upset. I hope that whatever damages the crew behind the project are made to pay aren't too severe, they don't deserve to have their livelihoods ruined over this. That's a far greater concern to me than the server itself being shut down.When will I ever get a City of Heroes private server that's on that level?
>>333438043
I am just more upset because I really was having fun, and blizzards game is such shit right now. If they released vanilla servers I would pay.
>>333437873
this is such horseshit, they never beat Outland in Eu or that other server in US (kelthuzad or stormrage or something)
>>333437284
>implying Wushu wasn't interesting as fuck
Full open PvP fucking everywhere, even in raids with players acting as enemies - basically whatever you did, you had to beat up a player. A system focused more on collecting skills than gear. Player-run economy with the need to buy half-products from other professions. Socializing extremely important to use guild land bonuses, make crafting effective, not drop dead the moment you grab a scroll in school raids and boost skills through group Tai Chi. Hidden systems and formulas in an extremely competitive environment, resulting in no useful public wikis - information was a treasure guilds kept secret. EVE-like skill progression leaving you free to fuck around, parkour up walls and grief players while you level up passively instead of repetitively clicking mobs to death.
It went to shit due to increased focus on the terrible PvE, rampant Viet boting and pay2win, but it was a very interesting experiment and a breath of fresh air in the genre.
