The ball's in your court, Blizzard.We are the team of Nostalrius Begins, a community dedicated to World of Warcraft's first version, also known as “Vanilla”. Or it could simply lead to more legal threats and forced shutdowns. Nearly eight months after the Nostalrius shutdown, Elysium's launch could increase the pressure on Blizzard to kickstart the official Legacy World of Warcraft support it has long been considering. Players will be able to revive accounts from the now-defunct Nostalrius server or start over anew in Elysium's world. All while doing so for free, without payment, and for nothing in return other than seeing this game world reborn."Īfter a couple of stress tests over the last few weeks attracted thousands of players, Elysium announced this week that it is ready to launch publicly on December 19.
"Together we strive to bring the past to life and to share it with the world. "We all share a single bond that unites us a love for vanilla World of Warcraft," Elysium states on its About Us page. "We wish them all the best, and hope that they will become a new home for the reunited Vanilla community." "This server shares the volunteer spirit and passion for the game we had," the Nostalrius team writes. Thus, the Nostalrius source code and existing player information is being transferred to The Elysium Project, another Legacy server group that already has many members of the Nostalrius team working on it. "It's time for us to release our source code and additional tools to the community in the hope that it will maintain the Legacy community as much as possible until Blizzard announces an official Legacy plan-should they decide to do that," the team announced in November. When November's Blizzcon came and went without any hint of progress on legacy server support (Blizzard said it has instead "laser-focused on the launch of Legion and getting Patch 7.1: Return to Karazhan ready to go"), the Nostalrius team decided it had waited long enough. Since June, though, Blizzard has been publicly silent on the issue, and the Nostalrius team says it has received no response to repeated questions and offers of help (Blizzard has yet to respond to a request for comment on the matter from Ars Technica).
"In a sense, they are also Vanilla World of Warcraft fans, and one of the game developers said at a point that WoW belongs to gaming history and agreed that it should be playable again, at least for the sake of game preservation, and he would definitely enjoy playing again." Further Reading Blizzard agrees to meet with team behind shut-down “pirate server”"After this meeting, we can affirm that these guys want to have legacy WoW servers, that is for sure," a team of Nostalrius administrators wrote in a forum post following the meeting.
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