The private server Nostalrius of World of Warcraft is history. The farewell was celebrated by the players in their own way.
Deathmarch to Thunderbluff
The players of the private server Nostalrius were hit hard by the news. The illegal World of Warcraft server, which aimed to revive the “Vanilla” experience on Classic, was shut down during the night from April 10 to 11. We have already addressed the exact reasons in this post.
Since the shutdown was announced in advance, players took the opportunity to say goodbye to their characters and organized a virtual “suicide march.” Hundreds of characters set off together from Orgrimmar, traversed Durotar, the Barrens, and Mulgore, to finally ascend Thunderbluff and plunge to their deaths. The entire march is said to have lasted more than an hour.
In the last minutes of the server, there was a large gathering of all players in front of Ironforge, who loudly thanked for the server and the beautiful memories one last time. One last time, magical effects were thrown around, and they danced, laughed, and cried together… before the connection was lost. Probably forever.
The team behind Nostalrius has also started its own petition to ask Blizzard to reconsider Classic servers. So far, the open letter has received support from nearly 80,000 people – perhaps a heart can be softened with this.
According to its own statements, the Nostalrius website had over 800,000 registered accounts, of which 150,000 were actually active players. At its peak, more than 18,000 players were logged in simultaneously.
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