'If we could push a button and all of this would be created, we would.
Allen Brack in a forum post following the server's closure. 'We explored options for developing classic servers and none could be executed without great difficulty,' said WoW executive producer J. It so happens that Blizzard has considered running a vanilla server. When Nostalrius returns on December 17, it will wipe the slate clean-offering players a fresh start for both PvE and PvP. Elysium and Nostalrius offered a WoW frozen in time as of version 1.12, the last update prior to the launch of The Burning Crusade, the game's first expansion.Įlysium ran a stress test this weekend and peaked at 100,000 concurrent players.
Rather than flush their codebase, the maintainers of Nostalrius handed it over to the Elysium Project, another fan-run group with the same goals: to let players return to an Azeroth untouched by expansions and patches. Nostalrius, the fan-run server for World of WarCraft that lets players return to the vanilla, pre-expansion version of the MMORPG, will go back online later this month.Īccording to a new trailer published by Eurogamer, Nostalrius admins will turn the lights back on 12:00pm Eastern / 9:00am Pacific on December 17.īlizzard Entertainment ordered Nostalrius to be shut down earlier this year.
