Nostalrius shut down

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Originally Posted by katrik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The crap that Blizzard is getting is hilarious. Their facebook page is FLOODED with mean comments about the current state of the game, and what happened to Nost. I hope Blizzard finally implements Legacy servers after seeing a huge market for it.

Actually, the latest theory on why Nost shut down is both tragic and hilarious. Rival projects run solely for profit that are huge (Molten is the big one) have been caught issuing Doxxed C&D papers to smaller projects with a striking level of quality to being Blizzard legal team forgeries.

The current rumor is the C&D was a fake, the Nostalrius staff already had the profit they were after and didn't want to risk it, and shut the thing down because once again, the player backlash from releasing AQ and Naxx late (if at all) would be a mess.

Part of the proof this might be the case is that Blizzard as a company has issued NO statements about the C&D or legal action. None. But they were very swift to do so with their shutting down of Scriptcraft.

It might be a situation where Blizz is thinking "Hey. We did what?" involving the Nost shutdown claim but can't easily step forward and say "Um, that wasn't us, guys." without remotely implying that they were fine with Nostalrius' existance, being that it was a private server.