New GM canned response

[Arx_1]

Whoa, I can almost see the MMO Champion blizzdrones smashing their keyboards.



This will be pretty hard on most of them.

Thanks for the update, Gnomey.

[Lokrosh]

Friend of mine translated it, Novae.

Customer: excuse me
GM: did you want info about something else?
GM: ))
Customer: Yes, is Blizzard going to release Vanilla WoW servers?
GM: stay tuned for updates))))
Customer: okay, thanks!
GM: have a nice day!)
Customer: You too!
GM: thanks))

Hype!

[kiraito75]

Friend of mine translated it, Novae.

Customer: excuse me
GM: did you want info about something else?
GM: ))
Customer: Yes, is Blizzard going to release Vanilla WoW servers?
GM: stay tuned for updates))))
Customer: okay, thanks!
GM: have a nice day!)
Customer: You too!
GM: thanks))

Great! It goes the same way than the latest GM's answer. And, does it implies an answer or announcement from Blizzard in few days?

[Arx_1]

Yes, I think so.

Mark Kern certainly has given Mike Morhaime and Blizzard a lot of time to think what they are going to say and do by postponing the day he goes public and the day he delivers the petition.

Who knows, there could even be some contact between Kern and Blizzard behind the scenes.

Certainly this is the first time anyone of Blizzard, even retired, cares about the Legacy crowd.

[PeaceHammer]

Friend of mine translated it, Novae.

Customer: excuse me
GM: did you want info about something else?
GM: ))
Customer: Yes, is Blizzard going to release Vanilla WoW servers?
GM: stay tuned for updates))))
Customer: okay, thanks!
GM: have a nice day!)
Customer: You too!
GM: thanks))

I want to believe.... but that would just lead to disappointment. If that is legit though....

[Noxm]

We are winning.

[Milton3450]

Actually I hope Blizz will not release legacy servers cause I don't want to pay a monthly fee. I hope there will be a place like Nost but if they release legacy servers ppl will prolly go there instead of a private server.

[Hydra9268]

I have a feeling that's going to be me desperately trying to log into the official legacy servers on re-launch day.

So many people!

[Yellstorm]

I have a feeling that's going to be me desperately trying to log into the official legacy servers on re-launch day.

So many people!

In fact there is a very good reason for everybody to wait like 10 minutes before trying to log in...

That would give me plenty of time to log in and create my characters. What? It wouldn't work for you? Well, sure, but it would certainly work for me

Now, jokes aside, let's not count our chickens yet...

[Uidrae]

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?

This is a world class, multi-billion dollar company we're talking about. They aren't making emotional decisions like what you've described. My guess is that they've done the math, and it doesn't work out as profitable to them. Of course, their math likely includes updates we wouldn't want anyway as well as configuring legacy servers into the battle.net system. With what they have in mind, it probably wouldn't be profitable.

They are like a freaking bureaucracy now. Instead of jumping through all those hoops (and added expenditures), they could do something simpler. They could offer Nost a limited license or if they want to do it themselves, they could keep it separate from live servers and battle.net. It should be separate anyway, since for all intents and purposes, it is a different game.

They could still make money by making people have a current sub in order to play. They could also make the download of Vanilla be a separate thing that you have to pay for besides the battlechest / latest expac (so they'd still have everyone in battle.net through the retail version).

There are plenty of ways they could take an easier route and still make money. Coming up with an idea that is attractive to them is what we need to brainstorm, IMO.