You're all forgeting one important thing - This is Free !

[Psyfe]

but what you all seem to completely forget is that this server, and the game and service it offers is completely FREE

If you ask me for a free icecream and I poop in your cone, it's still free right?

I think Nos has done a good job, no server is ever perfect. But those running it seem somewhat clueless and blaming your playerbase, the people who took time out to test, was the proverbial straw.

Yup it's still free. If you eat it, there's no one else to blame but yourself.

Funny that the ones of us saying no to the ice cream are being called entitled shits because it's free then.

[Hackwork]

Nostalrius: Hey, want some icecream?
Gullible: Sure!
*takes a fuming dump into cone*
Nostalrius: Here ya go, bud.
Gullible: But that's shit, dude!
Nostalrius: Naw man, it's real good, I promise.
Gullible: Oh, okay then!

[Volo]

there is no free lunch

[zachqt]

If you take the meat out of my dinner I ain't gonna eat that shit.

[skyracer500]

Why are there so many dumb asses that have this "it's free" mentality? Vanilla wow was an AMAZING version of wow. To call nostalrius vanilla wow is a huge slap in the face.

If you haven't noticed, the server went from being #1 in quality to being #1 in population. It took the EXACT same turn as blizz did after BC, except blizz still attempted to catter to it's player base. Go look at the facebook page. There are only like two posts that aren't related to population and one is even a very arrogant estimation of how many player we would have in just a weekend.

[pmizz]

Only two things are infinite

Human stupidity
and Human Greed

both are present in this situation

[Asha]

Please do not lock this thread!!!

[Glaston]

I don't believe the current argument is that the quality of the server itself is bad, it's complaints over matters more complicated than that, and the scripting and whatnot is usually mentioned as a cherry on top. It's not as black and white as "It's shit, but it's free!" or anything like that. I really doubt anyone is straight up saying "Woooooooow, I tried to do this quest and the NPC didn't spawn this server is fucking shit!!!!!!!!!!".

I would say a big reason that people complain in the first place is how the server was marketed. It seems pretty stupid to advertise as 100% bug free over 30 years in development by a team of 100+ elite coders and expect nobody to get upset when it isn't the legendary god server they expected.

As far as the GMs go, there are good ones and not so great ones. Your experience with any sort of Nostalrius staff is going to be all dependent on timing of what GM you get and what mood they're in. From my experience and the experiences of the people I know, Nithael is a pleasant GM to get, while a visit from Pottu might not be so enjoyable. Either way, they're pretty punctual in responding to tickets on a server with this many players. The server admins themselves are nice as well, from what I have seen.

Here's the big secret: People are going to be upset about shit that affects them in a free server because they invest a lot of time into it. There's no way around that. I know some people that get home late and can't play very many hours a day, and I can completely understand why they would complain if the servers are always down when they get on. Yeah it's free, yeah they can choose to drop all their progress and stop playing here, but if you're still playing here, I assume you know that just quitting and pretending you didn't waste a ridiculous amount of time leveling at 1x is hardly an option at all.

[Stalk]

More then that I had a guildy who would post almost daily new bugs to the tracker, with verifiable proof for everything. He had 2 bugs fixed out of dozens posted. Bugtracker is not helpful.

I feel the same way. It was nice to see Keftenk report bugs.

[Plask]

Just add the things you see to the bug tracker you little entited kids, anyone complaining are idiots

Under what category should I put being falsely accused with no proof for hiding "abuses" for weeks for own purposes?

Under the "butthurt because not allowed to abuse AV premade" category.

Seriously, get over it. Nobody is entitled to special treatment.