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Earlier this year, we covered the story of the fan-created legacy World of Warcraft server, Nostalrius. Nostalrius was a so-called “classic” server that emulates World of Warcraft before its first expansion, The Burning Crusade, ever launched. These efforts have often been shut down by Blizzard when they gained enough momentum to be considered significant, and Nostalrius was no exception.

What was surprising was the initial engagement Blizzard offered. The Nostalrius team was invited to Blizzard HQ and had the opportunity to sit down with Mike Morhaime and the other WoW developers to talk about the Nostalrius project, the difficulty of creating legacy servers (these are servers dedicated to a previous iteration of the game), and whether or not there was any path forward for the project from there.


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