With Blizzard Shutting Down Private Servers, like T2, Will this Become

[Hans-Hermann Hoppe]

T2 took down GTA:MP and Five:M, and Blizzard seems to be doing the same.

With Blizzard shutting down Nostalrius, do you see this becoming a problematic trend among AAA devs, or do you think this is simply them protecting their IP from piracy?

 

Please discuss!

 

ref:http://www.polygon.com/2016/4/11/11409436/world-of-warcraft-nostalrius-shutdown-legacy-servers-final-hours

[Totallycasual]

They have every right to shut down private servers that are illegally using their intellectual property without permission. Having said that i think that Blizzard should maybe take on-board the fact that hundreds of thousands of players were keen for a vanilla server and maybe provide 1 PvE and 1 PvP server of each expansion, better to do it yourself and make money from it.

[Osho]

Never played WoW. But nothing surprising here. Its their choice, and bound to happen sooner or later anyways.

"The heart behind all private servers, including Nostalrius, is to recreate a version of the game that many enjoyed and that Blizzard no longer provides"

 

If you can't provide what the fans want then don't let them enjoy either is the impression I get. Stopping those players who seem to be showing finger to all the garbage that companies like Blizzard, T2 are putting up, and took it on themselves to keep enjoying the old WoW they prefer. But alas, the corporate run AAA publishers only insist on banning or shutting down things instead of helping to preserve the WoW game that many fans loved to still play it.

 

Interestingly, the head of marketing and PR of GOG.com already hinted about such a trend 4 years back quoting Blizzard's another game Diablo 3 as example - GOG.com Says Diablo 3's DRM Is A Danger To Gaming History link

The interview is spot on and explains everything we should be concerned about as gamers!

 

Though the reasons for shut down are still not clear. Maybe Blizzard wants to open their own servers and profit from the nostalgia then allowing it to run for free on private servers?

This will be again a pretty cheap move, but I hope they listen to what the devoted fans want and provide them the access to their classic game in some way or the other instead of killing it.

 

This is why single player component in video games is so much important than getting sucked into the bullsh*t multiplayer experiences that it not only negatively impacts the single player appeal to long running series like GTA, Hitman..etc. but also sets off the warning bells for the fans to do something for preserving the games legacy and not let such such giant AAA companies profit so easily from the series' success with this increasing dependency on "internet for everything" requirement so deeply rooted even for offline gaming, which quite frankly sucks.

Like the linked article states as well.

Part of what GOG does is we preserve some of that history,"..."In ten years will the GOG of 2020 have a hard time trying to release games from 2012 simply because so many of them have an integral built in DRM in their structure?"..."That would be a shame I think.

We should make these companies to come with a balancing act in giving SP much more priority, and not less than MP, when it comes to innovating and pushing the creative, artistic boundaries of rich, unhindered, offline experiences. It can only happen if we as players understand the importance of SP and demand more for better quality offline experiences than stupidly waste our times over multiplayer madness for short term pleasures gained from online experiences.

If you visit the GTA Series section there're concept topics starting to emerge with online in mind than SP, which is very ridiculous to see in a section like GTA series.

[Hans-Hermann Hoppe]

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Though the reasons for shut down are still not clear. Maybe Blizzard wants to open their own servers and profit from the nostalgia then allowing it to run for free on private servers?

This will be again a pretty cheap move, but I hope they listen to what the devoted fans want and provide them the access to their classic game in some way or the other instead of killing it.

 

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According to Q&A sessions, lead people in Blizzard received a question, something akin to, "Would you guys be willing to add legacy servers? We would definitely pay for them." The rep on stage quickly goes. "No. No, no no. You think that's what you want but you don't."

[Gnocchi Flip Flops]

 

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Though the reasons for shut down are still not clear. Maybe Blizzard wants to open their own servers and profit from the nostalgia then allowing it to run for free on private servers?

This will be again a pretty cheap move, but I hope they listen to what the devoted fans want and provide them the access to their classic game in some way or the other instead of killing it.

 

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According to Q&A sessions, lead people in Blizzard received a question, something akin to, "Would you guys be willing to add legacy servers? We would definitely pay for them." The rep on stage quickly goes. "No. No, no no. You think that's what you want but you don't."

 

Why do these dumb f*cks think they know what we want. You think you know what we want, but you don't. In actuality.