Nostalrius Begins - Vanilla WoW

inb4 lock. It's a private server; which is strictly against Blizzard EULA terms, so in effect it is pirating, which is unwelcome here I believe. :p
 
I'm currently on a Wotlk realm. 50/50 because of financial reasons, nostalgia for me. Always wanted to play around with Vanilla and BC stuff.
If blizz ever did do Reroll realms, effectively relaunching stuff, i'd be all over that.
 
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I still think Blizz should themselves open up a vanilla realm!
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RuneScape did a similar thing to this. The game has changed drastically over the past 8 or so years and they released an "old school" version of the game from 2007/8 with a lot of the newer updates left out. This version of the game is (not exaggerating here) as popular if not more so than the main version of the game. Go to twitch and you will see that most of the live streamers for RuneScape will be playing oldschool.

This is a prime example of how effective this can be in gaining old players back.
 
Almost forgot how much harder things used to be back in the day, good few hours tonight. Any decent guilds around?
 
Jacksonn said:
I still think Blizz should themselves open up a vanilla realm!
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They said they would never do it - I'll try and find the post, but they said people have rose-tinted view of how the game used to be, and it would be a backward step for them to do it.
 
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I've never seen a game not improved tbh by taking what it becomes and selectively massaging it back towards what it used to be - smoothing out some of the more clunky mechanics/grind but without some of the inevitable style over substance stuff, horrid balance hacks (often due to players whining that the game is too "hard" when infact they just want instant results without the effort), etc. that tends to creep into later updates.

Problem with private servers of this kind legality aside you don't know how long they are going to be around for - so could put a lot of time and effort in to a character and then have the server disappear (if that bothers you).
 
I play on an ffxi private classic server so can understand the appeal of this. dont think its actually illegal as long as the server code is written from scratch.
 
Usually its illegal as the game IP still belongs to the publisher (or whoever) and the license will usually limit that kind of use.

Some developers will have a different stance on it i.e. some games they are fine with it aslong as you continue to pay any relevant subscription and will sometimes even support 3rd party modified servers to a limited extent but often this is used to circumvent paying the subscription.
 
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Nice, might check this out.Is it just Vanilla or do they have TBC servers too? I started on WotLK but all my friends told me Burning Crusade was the best expansion by far.
 
i think the legal issues surrounding private servers are similar to console emulation. As long as you write your own bios/dont provide a bios your not breaking any laws, same way if you write your own server code for a private server. Also as a private server makes use of a commercial game client, the private server owner must also not provide pirated copies of the client or charge money to use their server.

An example,dating back to 1999 a commercial Playstation emulator was released called Bleem they wrote their own bios and it allowed you to play ps games on your pc. Obviously Sony sued and Sony actually lost! unfortunately Bleem was bleeded dry by legal fees and ended up going bust anyway! So that's what happens with private servers, they get sent cease and desist letters and because they don't have the money to fight they shut down... or maybe they were actually using leaked server code rather than their own which is definitely illegal. ironically one of the guys who worked on bleem actually now works for sony on backwards compatibility for games on playstation store!
 
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I now remember just how much I hated leveling my warrior in vanilla :D

Already making a lot of friends since missions and difficulty pushes you towards teamwork!
 
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