After the meeting with Blizzard, we continued to reach out regarding the issues they raised in order to help them as much as possible and to speed up the process of an official release. Trust us, we were ready to work like hell on that, even more than before in order to help WoW team. But we never received any response to these questions, even after 4 months. Then, we tried to show our motivation to solve the issues from a different angle by working on mature proposals (studies, cost analysis, schedules, milestones, etc.), including a complete transfer of technology of our existing work, fixing the few remaining issues we had, official Battle.Net integration on Legacy to enhance community driven strategy and other more complex IT topics, all of this on a volunteer basis. Why? Our only goal was to nullify as much as possible the impact of Legacy on the WoW team so that everyone could be pleased with the result. We knew that having even a single person from the current WoW Team working on Legacy might not be seen in a positive light by the Legion community, something we understand. Sadly, we never received any answers to these proposals either.
I guess nobody in the first 40 pages read this.
And I guess nobody from any other website who wants to make a "professional" (my ass) article is going to read it because they have been bribed with a lot of Legion goodies and nice words.
Blizzard doesn't give a fuck about legacy servers. They just push the community more and more. They don't even give a fuck about the old community who bought their products and played their games. Warcraft remake? You want me to develop it and you pay for it... uhm, no, better say that "Warcraft is not fun anymore according to today's standards". Excuse me sir, but, with all respect, you are fucking retarded. There are some people still playing Warcraft II and many more playing Diablo II...
Wait 4 weeks? Nah, they will become months and then years. Maybe by 2020, when nobody buys "World of Warcraft become more powerful than a Titan" they put a pair of developers in that and release a shitty and buggy thing. And when it doesn't work, blame their community for "not playing and buying it".
Forget about the 2006 Blizzard. Not even Chris Metzen is there. He saw that what are going to make is crap and decided to retire (This is personal assumption, but is an idea that has been lurking in the back of my mind).
I can only say, well done Nost. I'll play in Elysium. I can only play and report bugs, as I am a shitty C++ developer, but no more WoW retail for me (and only because after 60 days of playing I got fed up, not even willing to lvl an alt from scratch).
But PLASE, make and effort in the developers community and try to make THE BEST server possible. Share progress and try to encourage that. There are brilliant C++ developers that I'm sure will be willing to help if they are encouraged. That is even more important than giving the database.
