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On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 00:12:21 -0000 (UTC), Lewis
<g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

>In message <ep5ko1...@mid.individual.net> Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 29 May 2017 18:40:45 -0700 (PDT), Shinnokxz
>> <shin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>Gotta say, can't see what the complaints are with revisiting old WoW.
>>>I heard many claim "It's the nostalgia clouding memories- no one
>>>REALLY wants to go back and play through that!"
>
>The complain is that people are pirating Blizzard's software, stealing
>their IP, and potentially decreasing subscriber numbers for the actual
>game.

*That* complaint is a partially valid one, and why I always maintained
both my live subs while I was playing vanilla last year (and one of
the reasons I'm no longer playing it). I've always felt it's not
morally "pirating" if it cannot be legally played though; I *want* to
give Blizzard my money for it, but they don't seem to want it...

However many people certainly express it in the way Shinnokxz said,
implying that just because they personally don't want to play vanilla,
nobody else could possibly want it, which is just plain wrong IMO!
Might be only a minority of us (almost certainly is tbh), but it's a
sizeable minority!

>> But if Blizzard ever offer official classic servers I will absolutely
>> be there.
>
>I doubt they will. It's far too much effort for far too little returns.

Sadly I suspect you're right, although I still hope it might happen
anyway. Although the returns may not be that low, 15k online
simultaneously at EU peak times when I was playing, on only one (pair
of) servers, continuing to similar numbers at US peak times, and a
third peak at Chinese peak... got to be 30-40k plus per day there
(probably a low guesstimate, given many people do not have time to
play many hours every day), and that on a server which the vast
majority of the potential market will have never heard of, it only got
well known when it was shut down. 

I do think official servers promoted by Blizzard would gain higher
numbers, even when you remove those who aren't keen enough to pay for
it. No, it won't be much compared with live WoW, but the numbers might
well be pretty decent in the kinda terms any other MMO deals in...

>And vanilla was a bug-ridden mess. I looked back at my account history
>and during Vanilla I got over 30 days of free play time because of
>server downtime.

In fairness much of that was more down to server hardware unable to
handle the load than bugs; the server downtime free days stopped at
pretty much the same time the servers were all upgraded hehe. And it'd
be easy enough to tell people to cope with the old bugs; they wanted
vanilla experience, they got it lol - it'll be a lot less buggy than
private servers anyway...