Nostalrius shut down

[Swish]

I dunno, after 20+ expansions its not hard for some people to say "we want to relive the classic era as it used to be".

Meanwhile the one developer left while scratching his head for what AA's and content to add next (complete heal for warriors etc) is probably quietly agreeing EQ's best days are certainly behind it.

[AzzarTheGod]

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

I dunno, after 20+ expansions its not hard for some people to say "we want to relive the classic era as it used to be".

Meanwhile the one developer left while scratching his head for what AA's and content to add next (complete heal for warriors etc) is probably quietly agreeing EQ's best days are certainly behind it.

What about that project leader and management though who back their project and stand behind it, fund it, and manage every aspect of its continued development?

You don't know what? Its disrespectful, and until corporate culture changes, you will NEVER get a classic server by ANY company. Its pure corporate anathema and that's why you have never seen one, despite popularity and profit to be had.

[Swish]

Maybe it'll just take subscriber numbers to tail right off, but I think they'd do it if people put in for $8-10/month and there was enough interest (which there is).

[burkemi5]

http://www.wowhead.com/item=18609/anathema

This item was the shit back in the day.

[AzzarTheGod]

Originally Posted by burkemi5 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

http://www.wowhead.com/item=18609/anathema

This item was the shit back in the day.

nice refs bro.

[Swish]

I don't know why companies would say "no" to more money. Seems weird to distance nearly 900k WoW fans... that's money waiting to be raked in.

[Tann]

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

I don't know why companies would say "no" to more money. Seems weird to distance nearly 900k WoW fans... that's money waiting to be raked in.

exactly, I'd resub if they launched a vanilla or time locked prog server.. I'm sure most of the Nost folks would too.

[Daywolf]

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

I don't know why companies would say "no" to more money. Seems weird to distance nearly 900k WoW fans... that's money waiting to be raked in.

They're not though. Records say never better. People may have left WoW, but just filtered to other Bliz games. Such an EMU is a threat to that. I'm sure that the logic on Bliz part is to eliminate such servers so those players will come back into their waiting arms. Doesn't matter if WoW is in those arms or not, and likely most of those players are already playing something from Bliz, but just more now.

[Pokesan]

Most MMOs would kill for 900k, insane to toss it away so casually

[Baler]

I would bet most of the people who played on nost would never pay to play in the first place.

It's like the idea that people pirating games hurts the industry. Most of those people would never buy the game in the first place.

The only reason they play it is because it's available. Add a pay wall and Let's see how many of those dearly saddened nost players stick around.

Some, But is some enough for blizzard to fund servers, staff, etc for it? I'm guessing no. Otherwise actibilizzard would have already been capitalizing off it.

(How many of you would pay to play P99 $15 a month? Be honest, not happy-feely.)

Edit: And one more thing. how many people here actually bought and paid for the titanium client?
Same idea goes for Nost. How many of those people do you think actually bought the client from blizzard?