Nostalrius Begins - Quality wow vanilla realm (1.12)

Well it's been a bit quiet for a few weeks -- anyone know WHEN they are going to Blizz HQ? I feel like this movement is losing steam week by week.

Steam is definitely being lost.

"few weeks" its been almost 2...
and 2 days ago they posted the survey.

Go get a job & a GF and your time wouldnt seem that long...

One post, from either Nost or Mark, I forget which, said Mike(CEO) was booked up for 2 weeks. But even after the meeting occurs, and assuming they agree to do legacy servers in some way, it could be many months before they're released. I seriously doubt they would release these alongside Legion. The most realistic time would be when the sub numbers start to plummet again after Legion's release. They know at this point that subs spike every expansion, and then plummet soon afterwards. Legacy servers could at this point easily be the next WoW release to bring subs back after Legion crashes and burns(which it will).

Drain wrote:One post, from either Nost or Mark, I forget which, said Mike(CEO) was booked up for 2 weeks. But even after the meeting occurs, and assuming they agree to do legacy servers in some way, it could be many months before they're released. I seriously doubt they would release these alongside Legion. The most realistic time would be when the sub numbers start to plummet again after Legion's release. They know at this point that subs spike every expansion, and then plummet soon afterwards. Legacy servers could at this point easily be the next WoW release to bring subs back after Legion crashes and burns(which it will).

Thanks good info, I kinda figured Blizz was booked up.

Drain wrote:One post, from either Nost or Mark, I forget which, said Mike(CEO) was booked up for 2 weeks. But even after the meeting occurs, and assuming they agree to do legacy servers in some way, it could be many months before they're released. I seriously doubt they would release these alongside Legion. The most realistic time would be when the sub numbers start to plummet again after Legion's release. They know at this point that subs spike every expansion, and then plummet soon afterwards. Legacy servers could at this point easily be the next WoW release to bring subs back after Legion crashes and burns(which it will).

Sounds about right, lets just hope they agree to something we can be happy about

Drain wrote:One post, from either Nost or Mark, I forget which, said Mike(CEO) was booked up for 2 weeks. But even after the meeting occurs, and assuming they agree to do legacy servers in some way, it could be many months before they're released. I seriously doubt they would release these alongside Legion. The most realistic time would be when the sub numbers start to plummet again after Legion's release. They know at this point that subs spike every expansion, and then plummet soon afterwards. Legacy servers could at this point easily be the next WoW release to bring subs back after Legion crashes and burns(which it will).

For that moment no one will talk about legacy servers, and tbh this seems a lost battle

Arucado wrote:

Drain wrote:One post, from either Nost or Mark, I forget which, said Mike(CEO) was booked up for 2 weeks. But even after the meeting occurs, and assuming they agree to do legacy servers in some way, it could be many months before they're released. I seriously doubt they would release these alongside Legion. The most realistic time would be when the sub numbers start to plummet again after Legion's release. They know at this point that subs spike every expansion, and then plummet soon afterwards. Legacy servers could at this point easily be the next WoW release to bring subs back after Legion crashes and burns(which it will).

For that moment no one will talk about legacy servers, and tbh this seems a lost battle

Just because we live in a world where the 24h newscycle makes us expect things to happen soon, soon, soon or die out that isn't really how anything works. Things take time and while an event like Nostalrius getting shut down might create a huge ruckus any effect is likely going to take a lot longer to come to fruition. By then they aren't news anymore so noone reports on the conclusion.

The hundreds of thousands who signed the petition are not going away. And neither are the interested players who never even heard of Nost or the petition and they are in all reasonable likelihood a much bigger number.

We are in a process where we may in the end get legacy servers. But the process isn't going to be quick. A few weeks before a first meeting with people from outside Blizzard, representatives of our community, that is a pace that is reasonable even though we'd all obviously would like things to go faster.

At this point we have been heard. If you haven't signed the petition, do, that still helps. That it still ticks up demonstrate that there are people out there that are interested but didn't see it when it was all the rage. Otherwise at this point there isn't much we can do until after the meeting. When we get news about that we can once again give feedback. And we will.

If Blizzard hadn't invited nost to a meeting and just ignored the petition, the overall outrage and Mark Kerns video we would still be on the Barricades. Now Blizzard has invited the Nost team and Kern to their HQ, so we wait.

I guess we all have different definitions of what "lost the battle" means. I loved nos and always will but I'm not going to put my vanilla gaming experience on hold waiting for Blizzard. They will most likely milk the clock for a while and see if this will fizzle out. I've moved on for now, so have thousands upon thousands of other vanilla players. I play on 3 vanilla servers currently and all of which are running at maximum player capacity more times than not. No matter what blizzard decides we own vanilla now, vanilla will always be there if you look for it.

Oh. Waiting for Blizzard isn't a good option. Never was. Even if they announced today that they had decided to do Legacy servers it would still be months into the future before we could log in on them and play.