Earlier last month we reported that a rogue World of Warcraft server running the vanilla version of the game was being shut down by Blizzard. Unsurprisingly the team behind it wasn’t too happy, and neither were the players. The team even announced their plans to release the source code in hopes that someone else will pick up the mantle.However it looks like they have since had a change of heart. According to a post on the Nostalrius forums, administrator Daemon wrote, “Keeping the sources private could be useful at some point during the discussion with Blizzard. They proposed to discuss together and we want to have all the chances on our side, for the community we represent now.”
The reason for this is because as per Blizzard’s official statement, they will be meeting with the team behind Nostalrius and discuss how they will be able to work this out to everyone’s satisfaction. Blizzard will obviously not be allowing the servers to reopen as this is a simple case of protecting their intellectual property.
However the discussions could be about how Blizzard could come up with a way to allow gamers to enjoy the legacy version of World of Warcraft. According to Daemon, “We are very excited to be able to help Blizzard understand the part of their community asking for legacy servers and many other related topics, in the hope that they will eventually make it possible to legally play previous game expansions.”
Blizzard had previously said that they are still discussing the idea of a “pristine” server, but we guess at the end of the day whether or not the cost of being able to upkeep such a server versus how much they could possibly earn will play a big role in their decision.
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