by Skandale » Tue Jun 14, 2016 11:35 pm
First off, acti-blizz can't say either yes or no, because they will want to release the decision them selves, probably during a event. I think a decent assumption is that if they are willing to do this, we can possibly expect to hear a yes in the falls blizzcon. Having said that, polishing the game and gathering all the code and resources that it requires to relaunch the vanilla servers is going to take time, even for a experienced dev team that acti-blizz has. So the question then becomes, how much time will this take? A good assumption, up to a year. So while all of this is very intruiging and interesting, we will not be able to play on a acti-blizz vanilla server for a good year, or possibly more.
A huge concern: Blizzard has not been very good at keeping cheaters away since 2007, during vanilla and tbc during the old blizzard days befor they got bought off activision, old blizzard did a quite decent to good job at keeping cheaters away from their game, even permanently banning players who continued to cheat after receiving a warning, sometimes even more than 1 warning, but they all got banned eventualy if they kept cheating. So why am I bringing this up? Because since then, blizzard has not kept to this concept, they have since then only banned "some" players who cheat, to send a message / signal to the community that they do something about cheating.
It's not enough, allowing cheaters to play the game, and not proactively banning them, creates a toxic atmosphere on the servers, it affects not only global ecconomy, but it allows players to sell and trade their accounts, basicaly "reaping" benefits that many hardcore players has to put in hundreds of hours to achieve, these players most often feel "cheated" because casual players with money are allowed to purchase gold cheaply, thanks to the cheat ecconomy in asia and the cheap laberwork they provivide.
If they keep to the same concept as they have from 2007 till now, we can expect that gold selling, account trading, account selling will be a huge part of the servers. It will take so much away from the game, that I think a lot of us will opt to stop playing on their servers soly because of this reason.
Nostalrius did a damn good job at keeping cheaters away, they were / are proactive about it, and there were showed no mercy for people who sold gold, botted, and went out of their way to cheat, these players got banned without a warning and hessitation, total dedication. As a result, there were basicaly no cheaters playing at nostalrius, every cheater got dealted with.
Gold sellers, yes, there were some, but very few if you take into account how many attempt to do this, only the very few who were good enough to hide their tracks managed to get away with this, and as a result, it did not affect global server ecconomy to a huge extent.