nervous wrote:Be careful what you wish for. Devils advocate to what I usually say--
Say Blizzard does open up Legacy servers.
You think they'll actually be true to what it was 12 years ago? Blizzard is no longer the same company it was in the 90s, regardless of what some guy with anime titties as his profile banner tweets. It's in the business of making money, not making games.
They will "polish" up talent trees, they will sell you cosmetic items, they will make so many minor tweaks to the game that it'll be an uncanny valley where it is unclear whether or not this was the same thing you experienced years ago. Does transmogging items really matter on a legacy server (only $10 to enable the function!!)? Does dual spec really hurt the playerbase (Only $5/mo to activate this VIP feature)? Why shouldn't a player be able to spend $15 on a custom mount, if that mount goes the same speed as the others?
You know that by opening up Legacy servers Blizzard would have much stronger grounds to go after private servers--of all expansions-- because they can argue that they actually ARE hurting their profits because they are in direct competition with the company at that point? But let's say that those servers are in countries that don't give a shit about Blizzard lawyers. Why would players at that point continue to play on private, poorly emulated servers instead of the legit thing? Their populations would shrink and shrink as their pool shifts over to retail legacy servers. Soon, emulated servers would be as they were when Stormcraft and WoWscape were the big names--100% garbage (instead of the 60% variety today).
Play the servers that are out there instead of wanting big brother to give you his version of it.
Fair point but... I don't know, here is what I think:
If Blizzard would ever open a legacy server they would have to acknowledge the fact that they have screwed up the game for a lot of fans with all those seemingly little features, specially if those legacy servers are a big success (which would probably happen), and IMO that is right now the only reason why they don't lauch legacy servers, I mean, it is a hard pill for them to take. So if they eventually swallow their pride and forget about their egos, do you think they would risk to screw up again making the same mistakes that forced them to swallow their pride in the first place?
