Nostalrius Begins - Quality wow vanilla realm (1.12)

AiinzOuroGoon wrote:

Snibb wrote:Well, it's all speculation until after the meeting, including what I think will happen. (also, if you've been following twitter, there isn't a set date yet, so how do you expect them to give you a date that doesn't exist yet?)

If it even exists at all...there's a part of me that thinks the meeting date will be left hanging, conveniently until the fuss has all died down and until after Legion releases..."

AiinzOuroGoon wrote:

Snibb wrote:Well, it's all speculation until after the meeting, including what I think will happen. (also, if you've been following twitter, there isn't a set date yet, so how do you expect them to give you a date that doesn't exist yet?)

If it even exists at all...there's a part of me that thinks the meeting date will be left hanging, conveniently until the fuss has all died down and until after Legion releases. Then it's "oh look, no-one seems to want legacy servers anymore so we have no incentive to create or licence it. Now be a good boy and don't release that code/data, as we now know what you look/sound like as well as your names and where you live etc."

Wryshu wrote:If they release the code and database today, we could all be playing again tomorrow. There is no need for Blizzard.

bestsugardaddy wrote:if vanilla servers return with a periodic payment i wont be returning. nostalrius was free one of the reasons it had a great player base.

DrownedBurrito wrote:You'd have a reasonable point here if not for the fact that Blizzard in the end are the ones who have rights to everything relating to WoW including different servers hosting their game. Nostalrius's obligation to Blizzard far outweighs any obligation to any other community if you really want to get technical with it. They're choosing not to release the Nostalrius data in good faith that Blizzard will cooperate in bringing in official legacy servers, which trumps any and all private WoW servers.

It's like arguing that thief A has an obligation to share stolen goods with thief B who helped them steal it, even though thief A gets offered a potential deal with the original owner of the goods if they don't share it with other thieves. That's essentially what you're arguing.

bestsugardaddy wrote:if vanilla servers return with a periodic payment i wont be returning. nostalrius was free one of the reasons it had a great player base.
also curious, if blizzard agrees to release vanilla servers, does that mean they made the wrong decisions that ruined the game

taran99 wrote:

Wryshu wrote:If they release the code and database today, we could all be playing again tomorrow. There is no need for Blizzard.

I'd still rather play official classic servers. Releasing the code would make blizzard likely back out, but the last thing nostalrius needs is _another_ law suit for not complying with the gpl license.