Nostalrius shut down

[Tewaz]

Server was fun, but the wave of Asians abusing the hell out of the box was ruining it. Another six months of that and the servers would've been unplayable. I'm guessing they plugged and ran with the RMT; a perfect storm for them.

[Hoozi]

Makes sense, since blizzard is planning to do their own vanilla thing: https://twitter.com/Blizzard_EN/stat...04308043624448 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] (i really wish this were true, those bastards)

[Storm]

I'm surprised it took Blizzard that long to shut them down, tbh. I've seen much smaller servers shut down sooner for much less.

[Rogean]

Originally Posted by AzzarTheGod [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Would you personally have ignored an initial cease and desist?

That's not a hypothetical question. I'll leave it at that.

Originally Posted by AzzarTheGod [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Genuinely curious if that's what you mean.

Yup.

[eadric]

The fact that they just folded on the first cease and desist notice does indicate they were tired of running the server, and not willing to go through the added hassle that would be required to keep it going. That's understandable... the amount of (china to west) RMT on the server was ridiculous and a constant (losing) battle for them.

Despite the overcrowding, the lag, and the broken quests and bugs everywhere, it was a fun place to play while it lasted. RIP Nostalrius.

[Baler]

That classic client sucked. I think blizzard was so ashamed of that ancient client that they pushed for this just to save face. :P

Blizzard will send lawyers/'official representatives' to your doorstep.

My final thought is will this be enough to end blizzard's anti classic era server mentally. I very much so think not. Based solely on key members responses to players, streamers and other game developers who have asked them about pre-current era based servers.
"no one wants to play that", "too many bugs to fix", "changes to the current systems that would not allow that", "prefer to see the game continuously evolve and progress", "not feasible to support multiple versions"
inb4 kronos rip?

[burkemi5]

Originally Posted by Tankdan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Only thing bad about Nostalrius was the ping and the elitism (My guild was not even top 20 on that server and was benching players for Molten Core).

RIP to the server, I played it for the first 3 weeks and had some fun.

There were 20 guilds doing MC in one alliance? Jesus christ.

[AzzarTheGod]

Originally Posted by Swish [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

They released the source code, it's just down to the community to pick ONE new home where servers aren't going to get lawyered off. What about Brazil? India?

you don't just pick really, you need access/help. nobody lives there who is willing to do it and coordinate it.

that's why it was hosted in france to begin with.

[nilbog]

I played Nostralrius. In fact, I was grouped and/or guilded with some p99 people during that time. It was a good time.

Beneath this line will be a lot of Wow stuff. Avoid.

I started day 1 outside the Darnassus tree and eventually left with Stark around level 5. These were tough times. We were fighting over spawn points we didn't know next to hundreds of other people. After I got out, things were better. Most people didn't get out.. for a while. Stayed up till the next day, got to mid teens. By this point, I was grouping with Alunova in Westfall. Shortly after, I was doing Deadmines with Yulath as my tank. I hadn't healed anyone since Vanguard, and it was pretty exciting in garbage gear. After that, I did the normal routine of zone/quest hopping till I got to 60. At that point, I joined a few p99 heavy guilds.. uh, Charles Bronson, Second Sons, and Massivus Backhandith. Started doing Onyxia and Molten Core under a leader by the name of Healadin. He had no idea that I did p99 or anything about Everquest. Actually, 99% of my experience was like that, despite the fact I named myself Nilbog. Also, despite the odds, I was the feral druid tank for my guild. Did Onyxia and MC that way. I retired soon after, because the pvp point ranking system was broken. I told my guild this, but I was ignored. In classic, I was a guildleader on Burning Legion pvp server. I played beta, and I had a guild which focused on pvp. For membership, you had to duel me personally. I thought that was a good thing to do at the time, not knowing where the game would end up. When I retired from live, I had all my Alliance city factions maxed, and had ~49.5k hks (2007).

Beneath this, there will be a lot of random WoW stuff. Avoid.

What I was hoping for was pure vanilla experience. Nostalrius mostly delivered aside from client issues (which I completely understand). An example of this would be uh.. talent trees. Druids should not have hurricane as a spell, but the bottom talent of balance, classically(vanillaly). As far as content release, they should have released warsong gulch and alterac valley before arathi basin. You shouldn't have access to battlemasters in cities for a long time. One of my favorite 'emergent gameplay' WoW experiences was southshore vs tarren mill, with people having to queue for Alterac Valley in Hillsbrad.

I can type 10000 more words by request.

R.I.P. Nostalrius. Good server.

[AzzarTheGod]

Originally Posted by nilbog [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Beneath this line will be a lot of Wow stuff. Avoid.

No thank you. Read it all [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I was very intrigued by your bit about your classic PvP roots as well as your perspective on what was wrong and right about Nost through the vanilla lens.

But it would probably take someone more immersed in classic WoW than I to spur another paragraph out of you.