Farewell Nost

[Drain]

Despite having quit 2 months ago because of what happened to my account; I'm still sad to see Nost going down like this and was planning to move to Nost BC, which I doubt will happen at all now. Nost brought WoW back for us and I played here every day for 11 months. I would not doubt all the fun I had playing Classic WoW again without any XP buffs, cash shop, or P2W BS. I never saw a private server before Nost that was worth anything, and I doubt I ever will again. I was following this server in 2014 before it launched, beta tested on it, and have a post history going all the way back to the forum's creation. I'm glad I got to enjoy WoW again since it's been ruined beyond repair since Cata, when I quit retail the last time. This was the most fun I had in WoW since... well, retail BC.

I know they will release their source code, meaning there's a glimmer of hope the server could come back with all of the scripting successes they made over the years. But it won't be Nost. It won't have the hardware. It won't have any of the ISP's benefit for security or DDOS. Or the talent that created the code in the first place. In all possibility, it'll have everything we hate, hackers, cash shop BS, and the rest of it. Nost is most likely ending here, in practically every way, and it's going to be a long time, if ever, that it comes back, or that a Classic server comes up that'll compare. Also, since Blizzard shut this down, I imagine future projects will question why they should even bother. Their chance of success has the same fate to look forward to...

I'm personally disgusted to see Activision, a company that's already ruined WoW and other franchises, now attacking Nost out of greed or fear. I'm personally never buying a Blizzard product for the rest of my life, and probably not an Activision one either. For people such as myself that already loathe and despise these companies these days, shutting down our private server is the worst business decision possible. In their childish bullying abuse of copyright, they'll only be hurt in revenue in the process. They should have been hosting older patches themselves, and could be making more money off that than the crappy retail does at this point. If they want revenue off older patches and see private servers as a loss of revenue... that has always been the obvious solution.

Farewell Nost
-Drain, House Undying