World of Warcraftplayers decide to bring the shut down Legacy server back online after Blizzard offers no update on official Legacy servers during BlizzCon.
Legacy servers offer the opportunity for players to playWoWas it was at launch, without any expansion content or major patch updates. That means original skill trees, giant raids, no flying mounts, and no new races or classes. Unfortunately for nostalgic fans, Blizzard doesn’t currently offer an official Legacy server andthe company shut down the most popular fan run realm, Nostalrius, for legal reasons.
Weeks beforeBlizzCon 2016kicked off Blizzard made it clear that the topic ofLegacyWoWservers wasn’t on the docket. Despite that, many fans got their hopes up for a surprise announcement. When the weekend came and went without any Legacy news, the community took the matter into its own hands and announced that the team behindWorld of Warcraft: Nostalriushas handed its core and player database over to Elysium, anotherWoWLegacy project.
“Elysium will now proudly revive and continue what began a year and half ago. We will be gratefully accepting the core and player database of Nostalrius. This means that Nostalrius, exactly as you know it, will be returning.”
The obvious question here is, how long will it take before Blizzard just shuts the project down again? Fans were hopeful for Blizzard support when theNostalrius team had a meeting with Blizzarda few months ago, but since then the company has stayed silent on the topic and, as far as we know, has not reached out to the Nostalrius team again.
Although it does make sense for nostalgic fans to have a place to explore Azeroth the way they want to, Blizzard has the legal right to continue shutting down those servers. It would be great for the company to support official Legacy servers, but for nowcreating and managing newLegioncontentseems to be priority number one.
What do you think of the community taking over the legacy server production and maintenance? Do you have a desire to continue playing vanillaWoW? Let us know in the comments.
