Nostalrius lives on (somehow). The source code for the Classic server of World of Warcraft has been passed on.
Actually, the story about Nostalrius could have been a short one: Fans opened a private server of World of Warcraft, Blizzard shut it down, the end. But the Nostalrius team did not give up and fought long for the community that desires classic servers of World of Warcraft. There was even a meeting between the operating team and Blizzard. Mark Kern, the former WoW head, submitted a petition to Blizzard with hundreds of thousands of votes wishing for a classic server.
But then it became quiet.
Before BlizzCon, the Nostalrius team then “threatened” to “continue working on classic servers if Blizzard did not make an announcement”. And exactly that kind of announcement did not come.
The Nostalrius team has now drawn the consequences and passed the source code to the second most well-known illegal classic WoW server: Elysium. The goal here is to create a “union” of all classic WoW fans so that the community is consolidated. Some former employees of Nostalrius have already joined Elysium and are ensuring that the transition from the old to the new system goes smoothly.
Particularly tragic about the situation is that Blizzard – according to statements from Nostalrius and Mark Kern – has never responded to emails after the original meeting. Mark Kern calls the entire meeting in retrospect a complete “PR nonsense” and is quite disappointed with Blizzard’s behavior.
Officially, Nostalrius publishes the code for the technology for “educational purposes”, so that developers can familiarize themselves with server structures beforehand if they want to work in this field later.
Cortyn says: A difficult topic where I slowly can’t really understand either side anymore. On one hand, it is shocking that Blizzard no longer responds to emails, on the other hand, it seems a bit silly to expect a very sudden reaction – especially after it was clarified that there would be no announcement at BlizzCon.
The friendly climate certainly seems to be gone, and the whole topic seems to become nasty – in the end, Blizzard will probably have the upper hand.
