This Week in WoW History: Nostalrius Statement, Rise of the Zandalari, World First C'Thun/Ragnaros

Blizzard Geposted 25.04.2018 um 21:34 von Neryssa

2016

Nethaera

We wanted to let you know that we’ve been closely following the Nostalrius discussion and we appreciate your constructive thoughts and suggestions.

Our silence on this subject definitely doesn’t reflect our level of engagement and passion around this topic. We hear you. Many of us across Blizzard and the WoW Dev team have been passionate players ever since classic WoW. In fact, I personally work at Blizzard because of my love for classic WoW.

We have been discussing classic servers for years - it’s a topic every BlizzCon - and especially over the past few weeks. From active internal team discussions to after-hours meetings with leadership, this subject has been highly debated. Some of our current thoughts:

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. This applies to anything that uses WoW’s IP, including unofficial servers. 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.

We explored options for developing classic servers and none could be executed without great difficulty. If we could push a button and all of this would be created, we would. 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.

So what can we do to capture that nostalgia of when WoW first launched? Over the years we have talked about a “pristine realm”. 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. 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.

One other note - we’ve recently been in contact with some of the folks who operated Nostalrius. They obviously care deeply about the game, and we look forward to more conversations with them in the coming weeks.

You, the Blizzard community, are the most dedicated, passionate players out there. We thank you for your constructive thoughts and suggestions. We are listening.

J. Allen Brack

Blizzard did announce they're working on classic realmsCheck out when this was reported!2012Battle.net Restoration

Starting today, players can access a new system that will allow players to recover World of Warcraft items that they may have sold, destroyed or disenchanted: Battle.net Item Restoration.

With this new self-service option the recovery of an item or items that were recently deleted or sold to a vendor can be restored to a character immediately when using the ticket submission system on our support site. For any items that were accidentally disenchanted the same method can be used to request a review by Customer Support for restoration.

This restoration option may only be used once every 30 days on active World of Warcraft accounts that are in good standing. As this option has a limited availability and use, we still encourage caution when selling, deleting or disenchanting items.

While Customer Service always strives to help whenever we can, with the introduction of this self-help feature we will no longer be able to assist with these types of requests.

Check out when this was reported!2011Rise of the Zandalari

Return of Zul'Gurub and Zul'Aman: With the events of the Cataclysm, the trolls of the Zandalari empire are faced with a bleak future and embark on a bold crusade to unite the Troll Tribes into a single mighty empire. The capitals of the Gurubashi and Amani Empires, Zul'Gurub and Zul'Aman, were rebuilt, repurposed into 5-man dungeons with new drops.

Quality of Life changes: This patch did focus on a lot of class quality of life changes, with things like:
Non-damaging interrupts will now always land on targets, regardless of your hit chance (paving the way for Hit Rating to be removed entirely in Warlords of Draenor);

Several persistent ground effects now display new visuals for hostile and friendly players, making it easy to identify who cast what in a PvP scenario.

Call to Armsofficial patch notes herePatch 4.1 Survival Guide with Lore2006C'ThunAhn'QirajOuro<Nihilum>Ekelhafter SchlammlingWiderliche Aura des ekelhaften Schlammlings<Curse>2005Ragnaros<Ascent>

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