It's a provocative statement, and what's to say Blizzard won't simply close Elysium down as it has Nostalrius? Whatever the Nostalrius team may have been expecting, didn't happen, because yesterday the gauntlet was thrown and the Nostalrius team broke its silence in an open letter. But when I contacted the Nostalrius team for their reaction, I was put off with 'no comment' until BlizzCon 2016 had been and gone, which suggested the Nostalrius team knew or was expecting something. "We won't have any updates to share on that until after the show," read a relayed message from exec producer J. Blizzard had said prior to BlizzCon 2016 it wasn't going to announce anything WoW legacy-related at the event. The Nostalrius team even sold BlizzCon-themed t-shirts to its community.īut BlizzCon 2016 has just ended and nothing was announced. The Blizzard HQ meeting was in June, which allowed a few months' thinking time before the event, and BlizzCon panels provide the place to go into real depth about plans for the company's games, World of Warcraft of course included. After all, why would Blizzard go to all this trouble if not to finally get the ball rolling on legacy WOW servers?Įverything looked set up for a November BlizzCon announcement. The meeting went well and the Nostalrius team was encouraged. Allen Brack, game directors Tom Chilton and Ion Hazzikostas, and more. And to talk about it with the CEO Mike Morhaime, executive producer J. Moreover, Blizzard did something unprecedented in response: invited the Nostalrius team to Blizzard HQ to talk about it. So with Nostalrius' closure came a wave of momentum for Blizzard offering legacy World of Warcraft servers, as they're known, because if these volunteer Nostalrius guys can do it why can't a huge team like Blizzard? So the popular (somewhat naive) argument went.īlizzard heard. They wanted to play World of Warcraft as it was back near launch in 2004/2005, pre-expansions, pre-extra this and extra that, and Nostalrius offered them that.
Because not only did Nostalrius have a huge community suddenly up in arms, those people had something of a leg to stand on. They were pirate/private servers and against the rules, so fair enough, case closed - right? Not exactly.
There's no timeline but the suggestion is that work will start straight away.Įarlier this year Blizzard's lawyers shut down a very popular but unofficial World of Warcraft server cluster called Nostalrius. The Nostalrius database, with saved character data, may even be carried across. But not in name Nostalrius cannot be Nostalrius for legal reasons, so it will be resurrected as part of the unofficial WoW Elysium project. The Nostalrius team has thrown down the gauntlet and the Nostalrius vanilla World of Warcraft experience will return - with or without Blizzard's help or permission.
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