Blizzard shutting down Nostalrius, popular WoW private server

Re:Blizzard shutting down Nostalrius, popular WoW private se... by pvg on Thursday April 07, 2016 @01:35AM (#11444949)

They've answered this directly numerous times. Compared to their user base, the demand is essentially zero while the development, maintenance and support costs are massive.

More importantly, the resources they have are better used developing new things for their existing properties which is what statistically all their paying customers actually want. The most persistent and universal complaint about Blizzard is that they don't produce content as quickly as their audience demands and consumes it. They'd be foolish and negligent to waste their time on anything else.

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Re:Blizzard shutting down Nostalrius, popular WoW private se... by kriro on Thursday April 07, 2016 @06:49AM (#11446240)

They could still outsource running old versions to a third party (with some sort of revenue share). They could have let these guys continue to run, sanction it but demand they charge X$ and pay y% of that to Blizzard.

There are some pretty obvious downsides to that plan but it's an option.

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Re:Blizzard shutting down Nostalrius, popular WoW private se... by pvg on Thursday April 07, 2016 @08:15AM (#11446602)

It amounts to the same thing - 'they can do some deeply convoluted, labourious thing for a few thousand nostalgic players' or 'they can focus on meeting the needs and collecting the payments of their millions of existing customers'. It's hard to see how the former makes the slightest bit of sense for them.

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Re:Blizzard shutting down Nostalrius, popular WoW private se... by vlan0 on Thursday April 07, 2016 @09:17AM (#11446963)

I actually question how much interest there would be. Nostalrius reported 150k active players, with over 800k accounts. That is much higher than I would have thought.

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Re:Blizzard shutting down Nostalrius, popular WoW private se... by pvg on Thursday April 07, 2016 @04:21PM (#11450355)

Where did they report this? It seems like it had a few thousand players online at a time on a single server.

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Re:Blizzard shutting down Nostalrius, popular WoW private se... by vlan0 on Friday April 08, 2016 @03:10PM (#11457065)

I originally saw those numbers stated in one of the first articles covering this topic, but I do not remember which site it was on. However, I did see they also mentioned it on their AMA.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/4droz4/we_are_nostalri...

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