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Can Blizzard shut Nostalrius down?

PostPosted: Sun Feb 07, 2016 9:54 pm
by fmpr123
I love Nostalrius and its amazing staff which really work a lot to give us this perfect experience, but I keep getting worried, can Blizzard shut it down?

Re: Can Blizzard shut Nostalrius down?

PostPosted: Sun Feb 07, 2016 10:23 pm
by Heldunder
it would cost them too much to try. they would more likely create a vanilla style server to take advantage of the money that they are missing out on. by not having one.

almost a cool idea, 1x leveling in vanilla content with the upgraded graphics. but they never will.

Re: Can Blizzard shut Nostalrius down?

PostPosted: Sun Feb 07, 2016 10:59 pm
by stokbaek
Short answer, yes. But it will properly never happen due to the major legal hassle of getting that done. Their issue is that the server is placed in EU and not US, there for cant blizzard use the insane corrupted court system to get the servers closed.

If it would happen would take years in court to get done and therefor a waste of time for blizzard and a major money loss.

Re: Can Blizzard shut Nostalrius down?

PostPosted: Sun Feb 07, 2016 11:21 pm
by fmpr123
Huff thank god, Im relieved now.

Re: Can Blizzard shut Nostalrius down?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 08, 2016 12:37 am
by Thriving
Short answer. Yes. Will they? Probably not. Not worth their time.

Re: Can Blizzard shut Nostalrius down?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 08, 2016 1:21 am
by Mindcrank
Blizzard could if they wanted to. But they don't want to.

Why? Blizzard knows there's a need for vanilla, tbc, wotlk servers and if the people behind the private server don't financially benifit from it, Blizzard doesn't care about the server. Because they don't want to create their own legacy servers and thus don't mind if there are private servers available.

Re: Can Blizzard shut Nostalrius down?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 08, 2016 1:24 am
by Robotron
Because Nostrils is going out of their way to make sure this is a non-profit server, Blizzard will have a lot of trouble shutting it down. I think another private server put in a lot of MTX and p2w shit on it, made lots of money, and Blizzard brought the ruckus.

Re: Can Blizzard shut Nostalrius down?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 08, 2016 3:41 am
by Isarus
Woot! Answer: Yes Will they: No.

Re: Can Blizzard shut Nostalrius down?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 08, 2016 6:42 am
by Redcap
Yes, Blizzard could shut down a wide number of private servers hosted in the EU in the near future. Including this one, since it's hosted in France. It all depends on if this thing is passed and recognized by the EU trade union and the USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatla ... artnership

The big thing the above agreement would allow would be a broader recognition of Trademark and Copyright retention of the companies that own them within the court systems of the partnership nations. France, Germany, and the UK would all roll over and kill servers once freshly printed C&D's were issued.

Nations not a part of the partnership would continue to give Blizzard the middle finger. CZ is one of these.

If Trump OR a Democrat gets elected, this thing will pass for certain as far as the US is concerned. It will be on the EU nations to see it through at that point.

Re: Can Blizzard shut Nostalrius down?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 08, 2016 7:50 am
by Crysthal
What concerns me is that so many vanilla Servers closed because of nostalrius success. Once there is only nostalrius left blizz might put in efford to close it.
On the other hand they may be giving a shit about those 30k players