gotmilk0112 wrote:The demand for a vanilla server is just too small for Blizzard to consider releasing one. And really, with their current mindset of trying to appeal to as many people as they can, releasing a server that appeals to less than 5% of the playerbase doesn't seem like a good idea.
Norjak wrote:while this would make a few people happy it won't ever make them money - at least not until WoW is dead & buried, and we're still a ways from that happening.
Yeah, I don't see Blizz ever opening a vanilla server until the game drops under 1mil subs and goes f2p. At that point, they could probably do something like that "runescape 2007" thing, and host different servers with different expansions on them.
Exactly this.
Why bother with a handful nostalgiacs while you already cater to 5-10 MILLIONS?
I mean, how many people are playing on all private vanilla (not TBC/WOTLK) servers? 10k? 20k? Thats nothing when we talk in millions. One million is a thousand K's!
And of those few thousands, how many would want to pay 15$/month as subscription? Half of them? Less?
The story about them 'admitting they were wrong' is bullshit, nobody cares about the opinion of a handful nostalgiacs.
The hard reality is that the vanilla wow servers is a non-existant issue for Blizz. Just a tiny sideshow for their noob lawyers to practice the 'Cease-And-Desist' mechanics. Once done, they too move to more important corporate issues.
There wil never be an retail vanilla wow server simply because every new expansion, no matter how shitty, brings billions of dollars to Blizzard.
