Nostalrius shut down

[Tankdan]

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

New TBC server opening up Thursday, the 14th. I'll be playing there with some friends and I think my old nost guild. Its a BC server focused on BC content, the classic raids aren't working afaik and might not even be available to zone in to. Can choose to start at 60 or 1.

http://playtbc.com/

Sounds like everything a Nostalrius player wouldn't enjoy. Broken zones, instant levels, hmm sounds like every other private WoW server. What next, 2x exp rates?

[Tankdan]

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

Lune can't you pull the numbers from their financials?

That's how I always did it. But you are right, there are no press releases on numbers. If you wanted numbers you could always peak at the financial statement and reverse engineer it.

Its a publicly traded company.

Another problem with those numbers, that they stopped releasing, is that WoW is now free for anyone with gold, and that counts as a "subscriber." I quit WoW with like 300k gold and subbed for a month for 35k gold, never paid them a dime, but even I count as a subscriber according to them.

[Odann]

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

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.

I truly wish you would have played on Kronos instead of Nostalrius. It is infinitely better and far more classic than most would have you believe. Feel free to change your realmlist sometime and hit up Druzzil.

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[Krycek]

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

Sounds like everything a Nostalrius player wouldn't enjoy. Broken zones, instant levels, hmm sounds like every other private WoW server. What next, 2x exp rates?

Dunno it seems to be one of the more popular choices, at least on the nost forums. Offers a fresh start so I'm sure that is one of the biggest drawing factors. Plus atm its offering a pve option, dunno if there are any tbc pve servers out there. And its 1x xp rate.

[Swish]

It could be the start of a Blizz crusade on wow emulators... death due to popularity.

I'm wary about starting anything anywhere now :/

At the same time, I'm not subbing to WoW again lol.

[AzzarTheGod]

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

At the same time, I'm not subbing to WoW again lol.

Welcome to...ah...

several years ago.

[Swish]

well yeah, the point being that this little "cease and desist" notice isn't going to change their sub numbers for the better [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[georgie]

Kronos is in Sweden,
'Good luck'

[Jauna]

WoD killed wows subs so hard they had to stop posting numbers
here comes the wildly popular Nost server
Blizzard panicing about WoW subs, if this dies, they die
Now Nost gets into microtransactions
Blizzard did not like this
Next time you see an RMT ban thank our devs for the tight leash they keep on this server

[quido]

I had fun leveling up on Nost and experiencing the World of Warcraft for the first time, but I thought the PvP was extremely lame. It was fun for a while in a light-hearted sort of way, but the PvP was way too meaningless and spammy for any enduring appeal. I sometimes wonder if PvP in WoW eventually got better.