Blizzard responds to WOW Nostalrius pirate/private server closure

There was a to-do recently when Blizzard lawyers forced the World of Warcraft Nostalrius servers to close. They were pirate/private servers not allowed by Blizzard so they didn't have a wooden leg to stand on, yet they offered something Blizzard does not: a vanilla (pre-expansions) version of World of Warcraft for people to play. And they were popular - home to an active community of thousands of people.

Nostalrius' closure gave rise to many questions about pirate/private servers as well as questions about why Blizzard couldn't - or wouldn't - offer a vanilla WOW experience itself. Now Blizzard has finally broken its silence on the matter and addressed the community directly.

"We have been discussing classic servers for years," wrote WOW executive producer J. Allen Brack on the game's forum. "It's a topic every BlizzCon and especially over the past few weeks. From active internal team discussions to after-hours meetings with leadership, this subject has been highly debated

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