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. From active internal team discussions to after-hours meetings with leadership, this subject has been highly debated. We have been discussing classic servers for years - it’s a topic every BlizzCon - and especially over the past few weeks. In fact, I personally work at Blizzard because of my love for classic WoW.
Many of us across Blizzard and the WoW Dev team have been passionate players ever since classic WoW. Our silence on this subject definitely doesn’t reflect our level of engagement and passion around this topic. We will report on the results of Nostalrius’ meeting with Blizzard when the time comes. In the meantime, you can visit its official site here, and its official Facebook page here. Stay tuned for more updates.We wanted to let you know that we’ve been closely following the Nostalrius discussion and we appreciate your constructive thoughts and suggestions.
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this … you haven’t. – Finally, Daemon and the rest of the Nostalrius team thanked their community for supporting them and for offering advice for their upcoming meeting with Blizzard. A satisfying raid with 40 of your best buds (yes, this was an era where WoW had 40-man raids)? An impeccable flag cap on Warsong Gulch? That time you saved some lowbies from being harassed by a Gnome? Now you can relive those moments as many times as you like. This allows players to replay certain sequences (or cherished memories) of the game via video.
How to nostalrius code#
– As a special gift for their players, Nostalrius has released the source code for a special “Replay” feature on their servers. In addition, releasing the source code now would make Nostalrius’ special brand of emulation obsolete for its own community if Blizzard launched their own legacy servers at some point in the future. How Blizzard will respond to the source code remains to be seen. – Keeping the Nostalrius source code private also gives the team a powerful card in their upcoming meeting with Blizzard. Nostalrius, as a result, will not be giving into the demands of certain WoW emulators who wish to legally force Nostalrius to release their source code. Daemon’s reasoning is that the Nostalrius source code contains valuable anti-cheat and anti-hack measures that, if leaked to the public, would allow hackers to take advantage of exploits and create more powerful cheating tools, which in turn could be sold as a service for money. – Next, Daemon stated that the Nostalrius team will not be releasing the source code to their project. Daemon feels that Nostalrius’ cause is “a larger movement for the entire World of Warcraft community that wants to see game history restored top-priority and only focus now is to fulfill the needs of this community, by carrying your voice to Blizzard directly.” – Firstly, Nostalrius has taken it upon themselves to act as the “ambassadors of legacy servers” on behalf of the entire World of Warcraft community. Below is a summary of the topics Daemon discusses in his post. To prepare players for the meeting, Nostalrius Administrator Daemon shared several discussion points on the server’s official forums yesterday evening. Photo credits go to Nostalrius’ official Facebook page The date of their meeting has not yet been decided. The Nostalrius team, who has recently been campaigning for the right to host legacy servers, was excited to announce last Friday that they will be meeting Blizzard in person. Brack, who announced last week that they would be meeting with the Nostalrius team in the near future. This meeting will follow in the wake of a statement made by World of Warcraft’s Executive Producer, Allen J. In a surprising turn of events last Friday, Blizzard agreed to meet with the Nostalrius team on Blizzard’s own campus in Irvine, California. Now, we’ll get to hear Nostalrius’ voice itself. We published an article last week that gave Blizzard’s perspective on the Nostalrius shutdown, as well as their potential plans for their own legacy servers. The incident has since sparked discussion in the World of Warcraft community over the ethics and benefits of private legacy servers (servers that emulate previous iterations of World of Warcraft), and has caused many to wonder whether Blizzard is finally planning to host their own. Over the past month, we’ve been reporting on a legal back-and-forth between Activision Blizzard and a French gaming collective named Nostalrius, whose custom World of Warcraft server has been taken down at Blizzard’s request. The location of the Nostalrius team, according to its official Twitter, is “International.” A note for readers and for future articles: Though Nostalrius’ server was based in France, that does not mean the team itself lived there.