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On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 09:29:11 -0000 (UTC), Lewis
<g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

>In message <d0a705ed-3c6d-4667...@googlegroups.com> 
>  Shinnokxz <shin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> And that's that with Nostalrius. Too bad.
>
>> Though it appears the vanilla server community and outcry has reached
>> levels it's never been before. Sooner or later Blizzard is going to
>> have to breach the subject and offer something up.
>
>No they will not.
>
>> The shutdown was typical Blizzard show, but really pissed on the
>> people looking for a reason to even bother with WoW anymore. I suspect
>> when Legion is released and subscribers have reached an all time low
>> post-xpac release, then Blizzard will consider giving it a whirl.
>
>No. That is never going to happen.

That's a pretty confident assertion, I don't think anyone can say
"never" with Blizzard. Times change, and right now they're throwing
away money by not offering a service which would have interested a LOT
of people during the content drought, at not a huge cost to them;
repurpose a few of the empty retail servers (couple more mergers would
do the trick), set up the old scripts and move a skeleton crew across
to maintain it (mainly an anti botting/hacking team), and... job done.
150k active accounts, well, even if that's an exaggeration of real
activity, the 15k+ online concurrently is not (and this was sustained
across two regions' peak hours, and mostly across a third, it's going
to be well over 25k actually very active), and while some of those
would not pay, that can be offset by the people who might well be
willing to pay for it if they were aware of it/it was official. I
definitely wouldn't say "never" on this, even if it seems unlikely.