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Over the last nine months, we’ve discussed the fate of the legacy server Nostalrius. The project was first*created by a team of dedicated World of Warcraft players who wanted to experience the game as it existed prior to the launch of The Burning Crusade in 2007. It was then hit with a cease-and-desist order from Blizzard and forced to shutdown.

In most cases, that would’ve been the end of it. But the Nostalrius’ story was big enough that Blizzard agreed to meet the team in question, inviting them to company HQ and discussing the possibility of a legacy server project. When that meeting didn’t produce the results the Nostalrius team hoped for, the group announced it had given the Nostalrius code and character records to a different group, named Elysium. Elysium was expected to bring compatible servers online, merge the codebase, and handle character transfers.

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