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Originally Posted by shovelquest
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Nostalrius had a strict no monetization policy and they were shut down same way.
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I feel like you're not telling the whole story. They were shutdown (via a "cease and desist") in 2016, but ...
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia (with added line breaks)
After a month or so of large scale protests, Blizzard invited the Nostalrius team to the Blizzard HQ to present the case for Vanilla. An eighty-page "post-mortem" document describing the development of Nostalrius, the problems that happened and some marketing strategies was presented to Blizzard, and after some time, released on the Nostalrius forums.
In the following six months, Blizzard did not respond at all to any communication from the Nostalrius team.[5] Allen Brack and the World of Warcraft development team announced they would not be making any statements about Vanilla at the 2016 BlizzCon convention.[6] Consequently, the Nostalrius team released their source code to Valkyrie-WoW, another long-standing private Vanilla WoW server, hosted in Russia, and the Nostalrius servers returned on December 17, 2016, under the name of Elysium Project, with the player database as it had been just before the shutdown in April.[7][8]
In October 2017, the Elysium servers were taken offline when it had been revealed that some staff had been involved in gold selling and character manipulation, which went against the 'Blizzlike' philosophy the team purportedly stood for.[9] The servers returned one month later, with the project rebranded as Elysium Project "Nighthaven".[10]
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So, in a completely different scenario with a different company (a company that would later directly compete with "classic" servers ... unlike Daybreak, which has expressed no interest in running a P99-like classic EQ server), a fan server did get shut down. But Blizzard took so much flack that they invited the people behind it in, and that same year the project was back up again.
It then got taken down again, this time
for RMT ... but was back up a month later ... and
it's still live today (under it's new name).