Blizzard explains the lack of a "vanilla" WoW server (World of Warcraft)
Blizzard management and the World of Warcraft team met with the creators of the now closed underground server Nostalrius and explained why they themselves have not yet opened the "nostalgic" servers with the "vanilla" version of the game.Blizzard explained the lack of an official "vanilla" WoW server - Image 1
Blizzard's lawyers secured the closure of Nostalrius back in April of World of Warcraft, which upset its many fans. Indeed, more than a million people were registered there, piously convinced that earlier in Azeroth the grass was greener. It's hard to disagree with them, after 5 large-scale additions and an uncountable number of patches, the world of the game is not at all like the one that I enthusiastically explored 10 years ago.
But, no matter how many fans ask to create a retro server for them, Blizzard is not ready to take such a step - not so much because it does not want to, but because some of the necessary files for this are irretrievably lost, and to re-create a working A polished gaming ecosystem will take too much money and people that the company needs on other projects.
At least that's how the creator of the fan server put it down to Blizzard:
They do have the original WoW source code. Systems for saving different versions of the code can hardly be called something new, everyone in the industry has been using them for a long time ...
But in order to create a server (and a new retro client), this is not enough, everything is much more complicated there. You can't just create WoW.exe and Server.exe to get things working. This will require a lot of files, models, maps and all that Blizzard will have to rebuild.
This means that in order to create a vanilla server, they will have to collect a huge amount of data (from the client and from the server) in one place. The problem is that not all files and items can be automatically rolled back to old versions. So, in the end, Blizzard will have to go through and check the versions of all files, and then take a long and painstaking way to redo something that cannot be returned to its original position.
__DAZDRANAGON__
Imagine, your server was closed, and then the plaintiff comes to you and says that he cannot do what you did. LOGICS.
miZzZka
Actually ... but the blies can't take all the material from Nostalrius ...! phahaha =)))
__DAZDRANAGON__
because it will turn out to be an ordinary pirate, nostalrius was very good, but he was a pirate with a part of non-working content .. blizzards understand that if you make vanilla, then make it at high quality with a monthly subscription + it will have to be constantly supported (no one will be for years play paid vanilla with unchanging content). Well, in fact, the Blizzards realize that half of the players from the regular servers will leave the vanilla release, that is, basically all those who want vanilla EVERY MONTH PAY for the regular version. Thus, the growth of players will be small in comparison with the costs.
Your Cap
max1504 wrote:
if you make vanilla, then make it at high quality with a monthly subscription + it will need to be constantly maintained,
yeah, it will be necessary to constantly update vanilla with new major additions until all players again run from servers to pirated vanilla ones.
The cycle of vanilla in nature
max1504
With their data, the recovery would not be so expensive, and if they cannot do it themselves, why shut down another server that is free. Here, whatever one may say, they "burn".
I play Valkyrie, vanilla is better and more interesting, but it is not perfect either.
Gluk7469
and you whip. agree, no matter how good vanilla is, but she cannot live forever, the Blizzards are not stupid, they would have washed it down long ago and the money was rowing without the release of add-ons