Preach on Nostalrius

[Lokrosh]

He's not saying these things because he would lose money. He's saying it from a financial standpoint of Blizz. As much as they would love to make the servers, it would end up splitting the community alot. And then future expats would get nowhere and wow would die fairly quickly with only those legacy servers to keep it going. And then soon those servers would he shutdown. No more new content. Poof. Gone.

Exactly, so if they have zero intentions of using vanilla, tbc or even wrath they should just leave things be.

There will be a point where this will happen. I think we could all use that to breathe for a moment and keep it cool precisely because it's more a certainty than speculation.

Blizzard only shuts down servers as long as they consider going to the trouble of doing so is worth it.

WoW is a dying product, with more past than future. We know that, retail players know that deep down, Blizzard employees know that, and Activision white collars have known that for several years now. Q4 2015 was the first time in years that World of Warcraft was less than 50% of Blizzard's revenue. It will not recover. The film and the new expacs might create a surge every now and then, but it will all dissipate quick enough, just like WoD's 10 million on launch did. They're using this time to get as much profit as the franchise can give and redistribute it to more promising products, Overwatch or what have you. Once WoW reaches a point where it's the marginal side game for the company, or if it ends up just shutting down like SWG did back in 2011, there'll be little to no interest in paying up a guy in the legal department to go research French/Swedish/whatever laws and file a cease and desist letter.

LucasArts doesn't condone SWGEmu. They won't allow SOE, in spite of the latter wanting to, to release the code since Star Wars copyright is there. But do they go after SWGEmu? No, it's not worth the trouble to squabble over a forgotten product from the past.

That day can't come soon enough.