Nostalrius Petition reaches 220,000 Signs - Kern wants more

[SanderP]

That's that - we are massively lucky that we got this guy in the boat

[Arx_1]

Petition will be printed by Monday evening, Pacific Time. The Open Letter to Blizzard is ready, and I understand mark will do the video either today or tomorrow.

[kiraito75]

Do we still expect this guy to do something? Next thing you know he's asking for 350k. My best guess is he bitched out and doesn't have the balls to do what he promised.

He already payed the printer. 400 dollars from him, and 400 from Nostal's fans. So...

[VeloxBanks]

Alright so when this guy's help actualy does something... what's that gonna be? Legacy servers? The ones that are gonna be riddled with microtransactions and other bullshit? I know I have no solid reason to think Actiblizz WILL make them like that, however we also have no reason to think they wouldn't.

[Soulshadows]

Mark Kern has said he wants to play vanilla WoW just as much as we do with his wife. He's gonna do his best to convince Mike on monday to have a legit blizzlike sever of how it was back in the day. He even talks about hiring the nostalrius team in the petition to work under the blizzard banner. He is just for more sigs by monday to make our campaign stronger. Get your friends to sign it.

[moodirun123]

Sadly it's never going to happen .. i

[Gotcrabs]

You sure mate?

We wanted to let you know that we’ve been closely following the Nostalrius discussion and we appreciate your constructive thoughts and suggestions.

Our silence on this subject definitely doesn’t reflect our level of engagement and passion around this topic. We hear you. Many of us across Blizzard and the WoW Dev team have been passionate players ever since classic WoW. In fact, I personally work at Blizzard because of my love for classic WoW.

We have been discussing classic servers for years - it’s a topic every BlizzCon - and especially over the past few weeks. From active internal team discussions to after-hours meetings with leadership, this subject has been highly debated. Some of our current thoughts:

Why not just let Nostalrius continue the way it was? The honest answer is, failure to protect against intellectual property infringement would damage Blizzard’s rights. This applies to anything that uses WoW’s IP, including unofficial servers. And while we’ve looked into the possibility – there is not a clear legal path to protect Blizzard’s IP and grant an operating license to a pirate server.

We explored options for developing classic servers and none could be executed without great difficulty. If we could push a button and all of this would be created, we would. However, there are tremendous operational challenges to integrating classic servers, not to mention the ongoing support of multiple live versions for every aspect of WoW.

So what can we do to capture that nostalgia of when WoW first launched? Over the years we have talked about a “pristine realm”. In essence that would turn off all leveling acceleration including character transfers, heirloom gear, character boosts, Recruit-A-Friend bonuses, WoW Token, and access to cross realm zones, as well as group finder. We aren’t sure whether this version of a clean slate is something that would appeal to the community and it’s still an open topic of discussion.

One other note - we’ve recently been in contact with some of the folks who operated Nostalrius. They obviously care deeply about the game, and we look forward to more conversations with them in the coming weeks.

You, the Blizzard community, are the most dedicated, passionate players out there. We thank you for your constructive thoughts and suggestions. We are listening.

J. Allen Brack