What will happen when Blizzard meets Nostalrius?

[Drain]

Blizzard give them autographs, a free box copy of retail with gametime, then say "Thanks for coming. Hope you're enjoying your trip. Seriously though, we're never hosting legacy servers."

[Hydra9268]

Its a power play, Blizzard will have an army of attorneys meet the Nos team and tell them not to F with them. After the legal reaming the team will meet the bosses, have a California lunch consisting of Sushi, Mexican food, and Pho. After the formalities are out of the way Mike will tell them "Look you little Shits I have the power to get you all flown here over night! Don't think I can't reach through the monitor and choke you out! Don't F with the Blizz!" Mike will than walk out of the room and tell Brack to deal with the Nos team.

Brack will bust out a WOD box set and tell the Nos team to eat it, all while chanting. Blizz is good, Blizz is great, we shall not question Blizzards might.

The Nos team will return and release that they all have had a change of heart and that we all should play WOD and Legion.

OR... Blizzard will have an honest sit down meeting with Nostalrius, and at the end will come away with a better sense of how to make vanilla work for their infrastructure. They'll also offer the Nost devs consulting positions to assist in migrating vanilla into Bnet2.

[hasseoliver]

In reality they can be arrested the minute they land and spend next 10+ years in custody fighting ridiculous copyright laws US is pushing on the world with TPP and other similar bullshit.

Funny thing: this can actually happen to anyone who ever contributed to MaNGOS. And considering there is DMCA and multiple other laws on top, we're more or less talking of a chance for multiple lifetimes in jail here.

Could you tell me more about this? I've made some small contributions every now and again when I felt like it. And I go to the states for every super bowl and a few broncos home-games. Could I actually get arrested if I go there again? Law is not my expertise sadly.

[Zarant]

Or maybe, instead of intimidating them, people at blizzard will make a lot of false promises to sweet talk them into not releasing the source code.

[theluda]

Could you tell me more about this? I've made some small contributions every now and again when I felt like it.

It's just a theoretical thing which US laws would make possible. But there also is the fact that to be pursued by law there would have to be a plaintiff first. So chances of this are rather low.

[Taco]

Brack will show them a two hour powerpoint presentation of why they thought they had over 100k active players, but they really didn't.

Seriously though, this has to be meaningful, i.e. Blizz offering them positions to work on their own legacy servers, or cutting some sort of other deal. With the previous shitstorm, Blizz is well aware of how much attention the announcement of this meeting would get. The stakes are far too high to afterwards announce something irrelevant.

[Norjak]

What happens when Unstoppable Force meets Immovable Object?

[Veylinda]

What happens when Unstoppable Force meets Immovable Object?

/facepalms...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ysPQRl27uQ
^^^ this ^^^

Pay attention Foo!!

[Botmaster5]

What happens when Unstoppable Force meets Immovable Object?

This - What happens if TUF hits TIO - World of Warcraft

sometimes, you have to spell it out for them....