Inspiring Reading - Legacy is coming

[Sirganksalot]

I shed a tear after I was sent back to the login screen to stare at the little "Disconnected from Server" message as I reminisced on all the fun I had. I still remember waking up on my birthday waiting for the server to officially launch.

It was a fun ride while it lasted, and those final moments on Nostalrius were soul-crushing, yet at the same time they ignited a flame of defiance in all of us.

We will have our Legacy Servers..

[Undertanker]

@Sirganksalot - sounds like a good birthday present. I found out on my birthday of the server shutdown announcement. But the opposite

Nice find from the main forums Pmizz. I like how in the "last post letter", she mentions that in other MMOs it is on rails. You think you get to pick and explore, but you are guided by mundane requirements and narrowed leveling paths.

NE ways, see you in ZG tonight Pmizz.

[melak]

Wow had to end someday, that day was the shut down of nostalrius

Just because you're not getting your char back doesn't mean it's over...

Good luck trying to convince him of that, his past posts is pretty much proof that wont happen

[Ariconius]

I don't really think I can keep on playing private servers. Retail was great, met a lot of great people, kept in touch with some but as WoW changed they eventually all drifted away from the game. I started playing on Archaica, it was a pretty neat experience playing with other people who love Vanilla but don't speak the same language. I actually learnt how to type/read Czech/Slovak to get groups together and communicate in chat. Then Twinstar pulled the plug on the server unexpectedly, so I sure as hell wasn't interested when they opened up Kronos.

Emerald Dream was OK, a bigger leveling population than Archaica but infinitely more bugs and developer team led by a real piece of work. Yeah, Feenix pulled the plug on ED also and now they launched a joke of a 8x server.

Nostalrius was the best experience I have had since early retail. Committed developers and a large population with hardware that was being improved to keep up with the growth. The problem with all the existing private servers out there now is they have a stagnant group of 60s who have their gear from when their servers were at their peaks and a lack of a leveling population means that the world is a dead, empty wasteland.

I don't want my character back, he was part of a world that is no more. And I think that unless an official Legacy server is released I will never return to WoW. It isn't isn't the items or the levels or the gold I miss, it is the people. I will probably be like Ol' Emma in real life, just rambling on about Vanilla WoW...

[smilingbob]

I started playing on Archaica, it was a pretty neat experience playing with other people who love Vanilla but don't speak the same language.

Cool, me too. Archaica was the first private server I ever tried and my whole family played there until it shut down, we had a great time even with the low server pop. Friendliest community I've ever experienced, retail or private. I remember being in IF speccing the Molten Core Swim Team raiders, wanting so bad to hit 60 so i could start pugging the end game dungeons again. Alas, it all ended before that could happen. I went on to play other servers, but they all ended in one way or another.

Seems to be the way of private servers. Every single one goes web dark too soon and it is a little depressing spending all that time on something you know isn't going to last. I think I'm done as well, at least for the time being.

[Oyani]

I miss you Nostalrius, I miss all of you. I play on Kronos and feel it's a matter of time until an official legacy server launches, I am more passionate about this game than most things in my life because I believe it invokes a primal part of our being, that allows us to be social in an unsocial world. I remember fighting the fight on the forums from 2007-2009 when WoW was changing for the worst. I remember arguing about why it needed to be more like vanilla. when daily quests and flying mounts pisssed me off

Wave after wave of Cata Baby made it impossible to even exist on an official Blizzard product and for the most part we were Exiled.

It is dark times for us and I was reading the general WoW forums when I found this post. If you don't feel invigorated after this I don't think anything can make it so. The game is better as Vanilla, and it will return when there are hundreds of posts like these on the forums. It is a matter of time.

and Nostalrius was the key to it all. God bless you all.

What I was looking for

My husband, my daughter and I started playing WOW five years ago (yeah, we're Cata babies). At the time we were looking for something that reminded us of the fun we had back in the 80's when my husband and I played D&D together. We found much more then that. We found a game that offered us something we hadn't experienced yet, or so we thought. We enjoyed every expansion Blizzard offered us, we were addicted. We had a lot of fun even leveling through WOD. Yeah, there were things we wasn't happy about, but we still had fun. And then something happened, something that made a big impact on this game as a whole. I started noticing the people in my guild weren't playing any more. I remember I used to just type something random into guild chat, just to see it light up for a moment. I would travel through Azeroth and not see a single person. Anywhere. And I'm not just trying to be dramatic.
I did all kinds of things to stay busy, finally I decided to take a break and try another MMO, just for something else to do for a while. I had fun at first but after a while I got tired of being led around like a dog on a leash, doing everything that was "required" to just level. It seems to be the new MMO standard now.
Then, my daughter showed my husband and I a legacy server, a really special one, all though I didn't know it at the time what a huge impact this would have on me. I have always suffered from social anxiety my whole life. I had no idea what WOW could really be. What it once was. Everybody was working TOGETHER, you had no choice but to do it. I found myself grouping with people constantly. I found myself tested to the limit of what I could handle socially, and it made a big impact on me. It was better than any self-help book out there. For me, anyways.
I have so many memories of that experience, I'll never forget it. I got to play in that wonderful place for three months, and in that time, I gained more ground then I have for the past 42 years. I was there when it went down and I cried. Can you imagine? Crying over a silly game??
I used to get angry at people when they came on this forum and talked about their memories of what it was like during vanilla. When they would say, we need to get rid of certain things, I would get upset and take it personally. I could never know what it was really like for them, but I don't get angry any more.
I envy them.
I didn't know it but I was looking for something, all this time. And I found it. And not just in vanilla, but when I leave that world and go to the one we live in everyday, as well. I found my voice as a person, because I found confidence in myself, a lot more than I had, anyways.
This is the toon I started on all those years ago. She was a boy then. I have given this account to my daughter, who still plays Live. I followed my friends to another vanilla server, I go where they go, no matter what. I rolled my Main there.
Will I come back to WOW? If they can find some way to bring that world back, back to its ORIGINAL home! I would love to play vanilla with Blizzard at the helm!
As it should be.

Asha 'falah

I knew I was right all those years but seeing it written so deliciously like this keeps my blood ready to fight for this.

Yes, me too. 100% agreed.

[Arucado]

Legion is coming, legacy is not.

You better wait sat

[EyeOfTruth]

Can't wait Legion to fail. Legion is quite close word "Legacy" they can fix this quite easy.

[Xaverius]

Archaica

Twinstar

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You hurt me greatly, stranger. Archaica was run by Mystiq.org. We were Twinstar's arch-nemesis. Unfortunately the tables turned over time and they got the upper hand by wotlk. And look where that's now. Mystiq is dead and Twinstar is... I'm not gonna comment on that.
Kronos came about because they were like "Look, competition's vanilla is dying... and dead, let's start ours and pretend nobody ever did it before."

So yea, Archaica was us. Sorry for the inconvenience. I think they shut it because there weren't enough people. That was the mistake we did that Twinstar learned from - they made it international and Jeniczek didn't fuck with it. Unlike wotlk. That he tried to force on cata. There's still 500 players, which is a half of the cata realm. Aah, I love when my enemies fuck up.

I will probably be like Ol' Emma in real life, just rambling on about Vanilla WoW...

Welcome to the club, I mostly do this about TBC and against Twinstar .