Something is in the air...

[Jenrin]

Consider this:

- Blizzard has never given us a big fat no to legacy servers. Sure, they have spoken about it at Blizzcon and on the forums, answering people that they have no intention to do it at that moment. We all know the excuses they gave us, all of which have been refuted by now. But I have never sensed, from what I have read, seen and heard that they once and for all have given us the finger for it.

- It has now been over a week since the shut down of the largest private server in history. The following storm probably took Blizzard by surprise. The uproar is enormous and the wrath of the internet is pouring down on Blizzard on social media.

- Blizzard is completely quiet. Not a word.

But why is Blizzard quiet? If this issue was easy to resolve at Blizzards office, they surely would have clarified this to us by now and said "No, there will be no legacy servers.". But the pressure is enormous. Heck, even the BBC reporter tried to get a comment from Blizzard! But no, no comment.

I feel something is in the air. I am convinced this matter is under serious consideration among the devs of Blizzard right now. They wouldn't be so quiet about it if that was not the case. See, Blizzard is pretty good at shutting their mouths about things they are working on (see past game releases).

Am I interpreting their silence wrong?

[Fair]

It's completely possible, but there are more ways to interpret the silence.

[Lynx-]

Am I interpreting their silence wrong?

Yes. It's more likely they'll stir up more drama saying something than by staying quiet.

[Winterflaw]

It is human nature to use our intellect to justify what we feel. In the current situation, we want Nost back, and so we by our nature use our intellect to justify interpretations which support our feeling.

In most cases though, what we think and what we feel are irrelevant; what will happen, will happen, regardless of ourselves. Our thought normally has no or almost no influence.

In this case, we can see a small set of possible outcomes;

1. Bliz offer Vanilla themselves
2. Bliz hire or license Nost, and offer Vanilla
3. Bliz ignore everything and/or maintain the C&D

#1 is disaster.
#2 is fine, problem solved.
#3 is business as usual.

Currently #3 is occurring, and so what we think doesn't matter; we keep pushing for #2, but also keep working towards our own solution (Nost in a jurisdiction outside of legal threats, or a distributed server).

[Tactician]

Like it or not, someone will step up and take/revive the project. I don't have any doubts about this. Nost is too huge to be left behind. Either Blizzard or someone else will save the day and take it to another.... "place".

[Sallerius]

https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/720983179083931648 Mr. Kern, former lead World of Warcraft developer during Vanilla
https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/721009051962703872 , how about this

[northaunt]

https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/720983179083931648 Mr. Kern, former lead World of Warcraft developer during Vanilla
https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/721009051962703872 , how about this

Wow nice to see that!

[Sól]

With Kern jumping on board it really boosts our chances of possibly opening some eventual dialogue with Blizzard, that is the outcome we want, we want an answer from them, so that's what we need to keep pushing towards.

[Petroix]

Sorry for destroying your dreams but Blizzard is actually working on Legion release and they focus only on that, they really don't care about legacy servers for now.

[Sallerius]

Sorry for destroying your dreams but Blizzard is actually working on Legion release and they focus only on that, they really don't care about legacy servers for now.

Hey noone said this vould be a fast win.But u must admit, this thing is geting bigger and bigger.