BigJake wrote:B. Nostalrius source code and database won’t be released
TLDR; "The MaNGOS community has been great and all, but now Blizz is suddenly giving us a chance to lick their balls, so, yeah, f the MaNGOS community."
Stated so perfectly!
You guys who are new to the emu community don't understand that this is just history repeating itself. It's the same story so far: Group of guys takes MaNGOS code, tries (or does) profit, in this case trying to get jobs, contract, or just a taste of salty Blizzard balls, fails, then never gives back to the MaNGOS community.
There's a large number of players who want Blizzard to cave in and do a vanilla server, but the majority of us are fed up with Blizzard and know that, even it they do offer a vanilla server, will screw it up. Blizzard is not the same company it was in 2004. The only way players are going to get that nostalgic fix we all want is from our own community, and the best way to do that is for teams like nostalrius to give back to the MaNGOS community.
Why should the decision be left to Blizzard when the player community clearly able to take care of its own?
Blizzard abandoned vanilla and all it stood for a decade ago, their focus now is marketing to the pay-to-win MSORPG, "check out my mounts" crowd. Players who spend minimal time on their servers, who don't complain, and are still willing to hand over $15/mo. Less bandwidth/cpu/support-time, Max return.
They don't want a vocal community who spends 4+ hrs a day on their servers, and given activision's direction to date, Blizzard will not be allowed to go in that direction anyway. The returns would be minimal if any at all even with 200k subs. The numbers don't work and you guys are barking up the wrong tree.