gaming Nostalrius WoW server shut down

[Zeal Crown 196]

So a private server made for the intention of a vanilla World of Warcraft server known as Nostalrius has been recently shut down and is spawning a lot of controversy between the WoW players and Blizzard. Some people I've been following have been throwing their opinions out there and I thought I'd share mine real quick, then ask for your's.

 

I consider myself to be pretty knowledgeable about mmorpgs and I personally think this move has a lot of potential for discussion from the point of Blizzard as a company and it's future. For a company to run a successful mmorpg, the company generally should listen to it's players and what they want. Blizzard's reputation has generally been extremely powerful in the case of how they listen to their fans, and has usually been set as an example for other companies in the field. Blizzard has also generally been smart with most of the decisions they've made in the past, and I've always told people "they know how to take common gameplays and revamp them to the scale no one has ever seen. They can take on an entire genre and set an example." It really baffles me how Blizzard has responded to fan's outcries over the shutdown of Nostalrius, and I'd like to get some opinions on it so I may see this from other lights and form a more proper opinion. (I'm not a WoW player)

 

My solution? Create servers for each expansion. WoW has many servers already, and being able to transfer things from one server to another for the purpose of expansions shouldn't be too difficult if the problem surfaces. I'm not a coder though, but I'm sure this wouldn't be too bad.

 

(If a moderator thinks this may be better suited for the debate pit, may I request someone move this? Thank you. )

[Mand'alor Dash 2,224]

JonTron weighs in:

 

 

It seems the game lost a shit load of subscribers after Cataclysm. Having never played WoW, I'm really curious as to why that was.

[AEDAZ 176]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that as many games as I've played in my life, I've never seen hardly anything of WoW. I know it's a genre-defining mmo, and that's is. But this still somehow ticks me off...

 

I saw the JonTron video earlier today and the fact that so many people are wanting to play "old wow" over "new wow", and that guy somehow has the gall to say "Yeah you don't really want that..."

[CaptainDoubloon 856]

@Mand'alor Dash

 

I can share why I didn't like Cataclysm and had stopped subscribing at that point. As someone who had first started playing for about a year and half during Wraith of the Lich King I was getting used to the landscape and where the right monsters and areas to go for each level. One of the biggest changes in Cataclysm was changing the entire landscapes of 2 of their major continents. Places weren't easily accessible and there were different level monsters everywhere. I hated it.

 

Another reason why I didn't like Cataclysm was allowing players to use flying mounts in the 2 major continents of the game, since this made getting the rare explorer title too easy to achieve. I earned the title and special tabard the hard way by visiting every area in the game either by foot or on horseback. Sometimes, you'd have to cross into enemy faction territory to get credit for those areas. Now players can simply fly over them and get credit, this is lame.

 

Cataclysm also removed class trainers, which I was sad to see, and made skills automatically accessible once players reached the correct level. The price of buying a second class talent tree was significantly reduced from 1,000 gold to 10.

 

I became frustrated at how it seemed like Blizzard was trying to make the game seem easier and more convenient. Like for Warlocks when they removed soul shards, which were needed to summon demons. However, they made the rarest demon easy to get at level 10 rather then players earning it the old way once they filled out the demonology talent tree.

 

Wow doesn't feel like the same game anymore since Cataclysm and the expansions that followed. I really wish they'd add a classic server.

Edited April 12, 2016 by Captain Doubloon