WoW vanilla brainstorm - Page 27

On April 26 2016 21:54 NEEDZMOAR wrote:

I thought the old code was deleted and no longer available?

On April 26 2016 21:32 Gorsameth wrote:

Ehm the pristine version would require very little work. It is simply the latest wow patch with a few things turned off.
A legacy server in theory is very little work, fire up the old code and leave it to rot, but an official server carries the Blizzard name and as such will be held to a certain standard, both by the users and Blizzard itself. That is where the work comes in.

Plus the whole argument laid out by Nony earlier still applies.

On April 26 2016 22:59 Godwrath wrote:

A meaningful one would take more changes than that. What the dev said in that quote, does very little towards community building and the social aspects that the game require.

Content on WoD is crap, and not because they release little raids, it's because there is not much to do except raiding.

On April 26 2016 23:19 Godwrath wrote:
I say that the pristine version won't take much work, but a meaningful one requires way more changes than that. Then you answer me that the pristine version won't take much work. Yes, i know that, i already said so.

And just to be sure, i am talking about them doing a "legacy" version from their retail, not past expansions.

On April 26 2016 22:49 {ToT}ColmA wrote:
as a player who is really glad that wow is not how it was 10 years ago i cant grasp the mindset of people who want vanilla servers. raiding was just mind numbing dumb, even a toddler could do aq40 -_-

it was not fun to farm 8h to get flasks for 4h raids. sure wow nowadays has a whole lot of issues but i am glad its not vanilla kind of issues anymore.

On April 26 2016 23:22 Gorsameth wrote:

You want a legacy WoD?
The latest patch but with all the features you don't like stripped off?

Yeah... that's never ever going to happen.

On April 26 2016 23:32 Godwrath wrote:

Again, I am commenting what the blizzard's dev said, not what i want.

And the "not gonna happen". That's what blizzard is going on with Pristine idea, if they remove phasing and change the loot acquirement, withouth LFD/R, no heirlooms, harder to lvl, harder dungeons... you are pretty much back to vanilla player interdependency and progression.

But if you must ask, thats not what i want since expansion after expansion the world has gotten smaller and smaller, but i could certainly enjoy the more refined game mechanichs on an actual MMORPG game (but only some, because other stuff is awful, like no downtime ever).

On April 26 2016 23:55 Incognoto wrote:
I'm not sure how they can't just give a license to the pirate servers and just call them "legacy".

Why not just let Nostalrius continue the way it was? The honest answer is, failure to protect against intellectual property infringement would damage Blizzard’s rights. This applies to anything that uses WoW’s IP, including unofficial servers. And while we’ve looked into the possibility – there is not a clear legal path to protect Blizzard’s IP and grant an operating license to a pirate server.

On April 27 2016 00:05 Roggay wrote:


Weird legal loopholes would damage their rights over the IP.
What they could do though, is to employ the nostalrius guys.

On April 26 2016 23:55 Incognoto wrote:
I'm not sure how they can't just give a license to the pirate servers and just call them "legacy".

On April 27 2016 00:08 Djzapz wrote:

It's largely a myth that your hold on an IP is that fickle though. Companies give out free software all the time, or they're sloppy about defending it. No court would ever deny that Warcraft is a Blizzard IP just because they let some free-to-play bootleg server run.

Blizzard's press release about protecting IP is a cop out and it's cheap, easy PR.

On April 26 2016 23:53 Gorsameth wrote:

My apologies I missed the mention of group finder in the original post ><.

I am interested tho, what MMORPG mechanics would you be referring to? I agree WoW is missing plenty of things you could be looking for, just interested in what you roughly mean.