Extremely sad to see this happen. Had so much left to experience on this server. But most importantly, I'm grateful I got to re-experience Vanilla, and indeed it felt like the earliest days of the game again. Never thought I could get that hooked ever again. I enjoyed every second of this great journey.
A HUGE thank you to the entire Nost team.As a dev myself, I can only begin to imagine the level of professionalism, incredible intrinsic motivation (thank you again for not once trying to introduce any kind of monetary incentives) and technical knowledge they had and still have.
The quality of Nost was far, far higher than anything I have ever seen achieved by volunteers anywhere. In fact, they somehow managed to even outperform Blizzard's servers, which never achieved that many players and even today still tend to crash when some Multiboxer shows up in a zone. And that's just incredible, given Blizz is one of biggest, most competent game companies out there.
Fortunately, none of it was in vain, as the good times we had on this server can't be taken away from anyone anymore.
I wish all the best for the entire staff. Please do keep us posted how this thing proceeds for yourselves, i.e. if you're charged with anything personally (if so, I'm sure the community would be very willing to help out with lawyer costs etc.).
And on a more selfish note, I still hope this isn't the last we will have seen of you. I don't think any other team can come close to the level of quality you guys acheived, so.. I'll keep my fingers crossed in the meantime.
