Blizzard Shuts Down Pirate WoW Server That Doesn't Use Expansion Packs

I don't understand why Blizzard doesn't offer legacy servers, where you can play Vanilla WoW and stuff like that. They would have many fans of the old version playing and paying for it

I really dont undertand why bilzzard doesnt further crack down on private servers. the server emulator for wow came out just MONTHS after the games release ....and since that time there has been dozens of "private servers" most which charge "donations" for special perks would seem to me that they would want to crack down on that more......

I think the main problem is that Blizzard made the game way too casual. For a lot of peoples tastes. Vanilla wow was my favorite computer game of all time. I still have yet to down AQ 40 and Naxx at level 60. Vanilla Wow was special. I remember getting attuned for Onyxia and being there for the first time getting chills. Danger in the main game was around every corner.

I remember doing Uldaman for the first time and feeling the same way. Riding out the the dungeon for the first time. Before it was nerfed. Elites wandering menacingly on the outside. One wrong move and you were dead. In the main game as well. They should make a separate server for hardcore players. Players that want to have there balls handed to them. Complete with skill trees Hard dungeons. Elites wandering the landscape. Bring back meaningful world questing attunements. So these legendary places feel well legendary. Make epics rare again. Screw dungeon and raid finder. That's what mounts are for. Use warlock skills for summoning. Makes game feel lived in. Makes spells seem useful. There is a dangerous world to explore.

Not anymore the game is full of noob cry babies. That want epics handed to them. Dungeons that you can farm with your eyes closed. Even on heroic. Give hardcore players there own server to play on with there own version of the game. Minus all the noob stuff.

If noob players try this server and don't like it then let them copy the characters back to the noob server and let them cry there. Instead of ruining the game for the rest of of the community that started playing a non dumbed down noob game. That was amazing!! I log into Wow now for a couple hours now and find myself board out of my mind from lack of depth and challenge. Please Blizzard at least bring back Legacy Servers so I can play my favorite game of all time again!

if blizzard didn't regularly go 6 months to nearly a year between expansions with no new content added then people probably wouldn't feel the need to make servers like this. Disappointing blizzard acts just like a multi-billion dollar megacorporation and not a gaming company anymore, people want vanilla servers and obviously the technology is there to do it, they just don't want to and will sue anyone that tries.

Nostalrius proves that fans want legacy servers.

That's 150,000 players who are getting to enjoy entertainment without paying for it. 150,000 x $15 = $2,250,000 a month in potentially lost revenue to Blizzard. It's piracy, no matter how much your heart bleeds for those people who want a different experience than what World of Warcraft currently offers. I'm surprised Blizzard isn't also filing a lawsuit for lost revenue.

The people that started this should be thankful that they're only being shut down.

i play retail WoW for more than 8 years now, i only tried some private servers for a very short time in that time but never really played for more than a week or so but.. i think this is really low and greedy of Activision (Blizzard) to chase these guys. REALLY LOW ACTIVISION, YOU HEAR?! shame on you!

I love how blizzard won't hear what their fans are talking and want....

Add timewalk raids blizz, or make new realm pvp/pve/rpg vanila where everything will be hardcore only and those players will come back to official.

I can't understand people who are clinging to the vanilla WoW. It was great, but is it really fun to grind through the same old content that is not changing for years? But that is their choice, I guess. But I can't understand Blizzard either - it seems like a missed opportunity to me. They are missing almost a million people (and that was just ONE of these private servers) who would probably pay them for a legacy server sub. Maybe it is that "probably" part they are afraid of - how can you be shure that a person who is using your IP illegaly will actually pay you if you'll give him a chance to legalise. Maybe they fear that too many hardcore players would migrate to these legacy servers, leaving the main up-to-date servers to stagnate with a bunch of casuals. Who knows? All we know for shure is that WoW is Blizzard's IP and they are free to do whatever they whant with it...

Just release a vanilla server Blizzard. EQ did it, and we all know how you love to copy EQ. What are you afraid of? Getting more subscribers?

u will play on our terms u peasants

If they think vanilla WOW was the halcyon days, the old EQ boat travel would blow their minds.

I play all the expansions and have no desire to go back to the original. If some players want that then it should be available to them shouldn't it ???

The fact that a pirate server got shut down is understandable. The fact that this is only one from about 15 such servers and there are petition and high demand for the vanilla content for the hardcore gamers and yet Blizzard is not offering a legit vanilla server is mindblowing.
WOW today is console level casual. You shouldn't be able to clear a raid with an uncordinated random group. The difficulty should be high enough to appeal to the most skilled and coordinated guilds like Nihilum back in the day. Vanilla was built for hardcore MMO gamers, the expansions were built to appeal to a more casual solo audience.

What were they expecting? is a pirated version of a game running on an unauthorized sever...is it really that hard to understand why it was closed? People should stop wasting their time with this things and maybe try to do their own things, clearly the have the talent and resources to do it.

Blizzard's really missing the point here.

With those numbers, there's clearly some demand for vanilla content.

If they want to bring back subscribers who left, even if just for a bit, it seems like this would be the way to go.

ActiBlizz should feel shame. They don't. Delusional corporation now, but they SHOULD.

The game is a shadow of what it once was. I wish I knew about this server. I would have joined. I would have probably even donated money to the cause. ActiBlizz hasn't gotten a dime from me since Pandaland. And never will again. But I started in Vanilla, just before BC dropped. So many things that made the game great back then are now missing.

Primarily ***COMMUNITY.

It's funny. ActiBlizz are really good at killing off their own community these days.

Server had 11k players online at peak and no less than 7k online at all times. Blizzard most likely shut it down because of all the Chinese gold sellers who were profiting off the server.

And here I was thinking of trying it out to relive the best times I had in WoW a decade ago.

Blizzard.. just open a damned vanilla server.

Pubs and Devs need to get the hint and support this niche market. It doesn't need to be super curated to prevent hackers. Long time players just want to drop in on occasion and re-experience the past. It's all about nostalgia. Sega's original PSO comes to mind. I'd love to see that on PS Vita or 3DS.

So people enjoyed the old world. You'd think Blizzard would get the hint about their game design shortcomings as of late, with such obvious feedback.