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World of Warcraft Invites Legacy Server Team to a Meeting
World of Warcraft invites Legacy Server Team to talk to the World of Warcraft
After a public campaign, the fan-run World of Warcraft team has been able to meet the game's developers.
Nostalrius Unofficial Server which ran an older version that was not supported, was shut down by Blizzard Entertainment in April.
This resulted in more than 250,000 people signing an online petition asking Blizzard to provide support for older servers.
It has been agreed to meet the team from Nostalrius to discuss the issue.
The private server was running an original version of the game that is so popular, sometimes called"vanilla" or "vanilla" version which is a reflection of the game as it was released in 2004.
In the years since the game's debut, WoW has been updated and patched, with a variety of expansions, which some players consider to have altered the basic experience.
Nostalrius was shut down in April after Blizzard issued a legal warning, igniting a public discussion among fans on the issue. Now the developer says it will invite the Nostalrius team to its California headquarters for discussions - though the date hasn't been fixed.
The company also suggested the possibility of what it called a "pristine" server that would eliminate some of the modern game's features and boosts but still run in the current version.
Nostalrius says formal meetings with Blizzard will become an advocate for the community - and it hopes that the company will take on the responsibility to run servers that are no longer legal.
"We consider ourselves to be not only the admins of a private server, we are also the ambassadors of an entire movement for the whole World of Warcraft community that wants to see game history restored," they wrote in the forum post.
It is a huge responsibility. Our first and foremost current focus is to fulfill the requirements of the community by bringing your voice to Blizzard directly."
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Blizzard has never supported legacy servers in its own game, making illegal private servers the only option for experiencing the "classic" game.
Blizzard stated that the issue of "classic servers" was a topic of discussion for a long time, but it claimed that it could not be implemented without extreme difficulty. It stated that it could not allow private Nostalrius servers to remain in operation because "failure against intellectual property infringement would be detrimental to Blizzard."
Blizzard's tentative talks were met with mixed responses from fans. Some are concerned that legacy servers could deter company resources away from creating new content for the main game. Others, including Mark Kern, a former WoW developer, stated that the old servers are still needed.
"WoW is a very important game - it's a part of the history of gaming, but there's no legal way to let players play earlier versions or discover the source of its creation," Mr Kern said in a video addressed to Blizzard.
In the peak of its popularity in 2010, World of Warcraft attracted nearly 12 million subscribers However, it is now home to approximately five million paying users. Nostalrius had approximately 150,000 members when it was shut down in April.
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