Last month Blizzard announced a move to shut down a fan-run World of Warcraft server. The server was aimed at players who enjoyed the vanilla version of the game, before the expansions and the supposed handholding and spoonfeeding that came along with them. Turns out many players weren’t too thrilled by this move.
It led to a petition and also support by former World of Warcraft developer Mark Kern who offered to be the middle man between Blizzard and the server’s creators. That being said, Kern recently met up with the folks at Blizzard to discuss what they could do moving forward, and according to him, the meeting went pretty well.
Essentially the team at Blizzard have been brought up to speed on things, like the petition, the community’s request for a vanilla server, and the kind of technical challenges such as server would bring. This is obviously more than just putting up another server because it is still a Blizzard game after all, which means that they would still need to give the same amount of TLC to the vanilla server as they would a new game.
Whether or not that will happen, but Kern did state that Blizzard is eager to meet the team behind Nostalrius in which the meeting is expected to take place next month. According to Kern, “While they can make no promises, they are going to continue to think and regroup and be in LISTEN mode to you guys.” We suppose at the end of the day even if nothing came from it, at the very least Blizzard gave them a chance, which is more than what most developers would be willing to do.
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