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Article #351913Re: *wind whistles*
From: Lewis
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 03:34
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 03:34
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In message <dn3ua5...@mid.individual.net> Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote: > 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, Yes. > 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, I think you vastly over-estimate the number of people who are interested in WoW 1.0, and vastly overestimate the number who would be interested after an hour of playing it. > not a huge cost to them; Much higher cost that I suspect you are allowing for. Just the support costs would be massively burdensome. > 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. You are forgetting how unstable and buggy 1.0 was. Go look at your account history and see how many free days you got during 1.x wow compared to how many you got from 2.x on. -- I WILL NOT TRADE PANTS WITH OTHERS Bart chalkboard Ep. 7F05
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