
Nostalrius will be shutting down on the 10th of April unless Blizzard changes its mind, which may be unlikely as there is no requirement to own or subscribe to the game in order to play on these servers. The petition has managed to gather up close to 47,000 supporters at the time of writing. Nostalrius servers offered the vanilla WoW experience to 800,000 players since it first opened up and over 150,000 players have remained active to this day, according to a petition written by the Nostalrius team in an effort to get them to change their minds. For those people, there have been private servers available to get a nostalgia fix but one of the largest and most active servers is being shut down this week, following a cease and desist from Blizzard. But now we think we have a way to have the old WoW version work on the modern infrastructure and feel really good.World of Warcraft has really left its mark on the MMO world but there are people out there who still prefer the ‘vanilla' experience, back before Blizzard launched any expansions or made major changes to the game. It’s those core fundamental pieces, and running two MMOs of that size is a daunting problem. "The infrastructure is how we spin up instances and continents, how the database works. "We think we have a way to run the Classic servers on the modern technical infrastructure," Brack said. Allen Brack, executive producer on World of Warcraft, said during the BlizzCon 2017 keynote.įollowing the Classic announcement, PCGamer published a short interview they had with Brack prior to the announcement in which the producer revealed that the team has finally found a way to bring back the vanilla server.

“We want to reproduce the game experience that we all enjoyed from the original classic WoW without the launch experience," J. WoW: Classic is currently in development at Blizzard but no release schedule was released. Get ready for a trip through time as a classic server option is coming to World of Warcraft.
