This led to some legal scares for the team, eventually forcing them to try and back out of their affiliation with the other private server team. Allen Brack, the Nostalrius Developer team felt that Blizzard wasn't going to create 'Legacy' servers, and decided to share their code with another Private server's development team, or 'Pirate server' as J. In response to the October 2016 post from J. Allen Brack and the World of Warcraft development team Thanks for your patience, and we’ll see you at BlizzCon. What we will focus on at BlizzCon is how the team is committed to making sure we bring you a steady stream of content going forward, and we can’t wait to share what’s next for Legion. You’ve heard us say that the launch of Legion was just the beginning of the story we want to tell in this expansion. These past few months we’ve been laser-focused on the launch of Legion and getting Patch 7.1: Return to Karazhan ready to go (it’s almost here!), as well as prepping for BlizzCon-which is always a huge undertaking itself. We’ve seen some talk among the community that you might be expecting to hear some news on legacy servers at BlizzCon, and we just wanted to take a moment to let you know that while we’re still discussing the possibility, we won’t have any updates to share on that until after the show. Allen Brack made another Blue Post explaining that they would not be revealing any World of Warcraft 'Legacy' Servers at the upcoming Blizzcon. In October of 2016, two weeks before Blizzcon 2016, J. We thank you for your constructive thoughts and suggestions. You, the Blizzard community, are the most dedicated, passionate players out there. They obviously care deeply about the game, and we look forward to more conversations with them in the coming weeks. One other note - we’ve recently been in contact with some of the folks who operated Nostalrius. We aren’t sure whether this version of a clean slate is something that would appeal to the community and it’s still an open topic of discussion. In essence that would turn off all leveling acceleration including character transfers, heirloom gear, character boosts, Recruit-A-Friend bonuses, WoW Token, and access to cross realm zones, as well as group finder. So what can we do to capture that nostalgia of when WoW first launched? Over the years we have talked about a “pristine realm”. However, there are tremendous operational challenges to integrating classic servers, not to mention the ongoing support of multiple live versions for every aspect of WoW. If we could push a button and all of this would be created, we would. We explored options for developing classic servers and none could be executed without great difficulty. And while we’ve looked into the possibility – there is not a clear legal path to protect Blizzard’s IP and grant an operating license to a pirate server. This applies to anything that uses WoW’s IP, including unofficial servers. Why not just let Nostalrius continue the way it was? The honest answer is, failure to protect against intellectual property infringement would damage Blizzard’s rights. From active internal team discussions to after-hours meetings with leadership, this subject has been highly debated. We have been discussing classic servers for years - it’s a topic every BlizzCon - and especially over the past few weeks.

In fact, I personally work at Blizzard because of my love for classic WoW. Many of us across Blizzard and the WoW Dev team have been passionate players ever since classic WoW. Our silence on this subject definitely doesn’t reflect our level of engagement and passion around this topic. We wanted to let you know that we’ve been closely following the Nostalrius discussion and we appreciate your constructive thoughts and suggestions.

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