A former developer of WoW supports the fans’ pursuit of legacy servers. He wants to personally deliver it to Blizzard.
Mike Kern supports the desire for classic servers
After Blizzard, under the threat of a lawsuit, ensured that the private server “Nostalrius” was shut down in recent weeks, the topic made high waves. On Nostalrius, everything was a little different than on the official servers – because World of Warcraft was still running in its “classic” state, that is, the vanilla version from around 10 years ago. Before the fans bid farewell to their home in a moving-bizarre way, they opened a petition to persuade Blizzard to finally offer their own servers where the classic version of World of Warcraft is operated.
This petition has now reached more than 180,000 supporters, including a prominent person: Mike Kern, who was the team lead of World of Warcraft until 2006 and then left Blizzard, has now also commented on the petition. Should a certain milestone be reached, he wants to personally pass this matter on to Mike Morhaime, one of the major decision-makers at Blizzard.
“If we get 200,000 signatures on the petition, then I will personally deliver the matter to Mike Morhaime. But if we want to convince Blizzard, we need more than 100,000 signatures. 100,000 is okay, but not enough to move them to action. My assumption is that if even Nostalrius had 850,000 registered accounts, then there are probably several million players longing for a legacy server.”
Mein-MMO says: It is definitely a strong sign when one of the former leading developers of World of Warcraft clearly commits to classic servers and also wants to represent the community’s desire for them. On the other hand, it is also understandable, as World of Warcraft was somehow Mike Kern’s “baby” until 2006. And who wouldn’t want to see their “own” game celebrate a little revival again?
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