WoW, Vanilla!

Now, it's no secret that Blizzard has effectively Brought the hammer down on the fan-run vanilla World of Warcraft server Nostalrius.






I know, I know...
But it apparently had to be done.

The big-wigs of Blizzard Entertainment offered to meet with the people that used to run Nostalrius.


And they actually followed through with it!
Now, you may be thinking that their meeting was something like this...

But according to the project manager of Nostalrius, Viper, Mike Morhaime (CEO) and Tom Chilton (game director of WoW) showed up to talk to them along with a lot of other members of the development team. They talked about a number of things, most not mentioned, but we know one thing for sure:

They discussed why WoW hasn't just launched their own legacy servers.
For those of you new to the world of ever-evolving-video-games, a Legacy System (or server in this case) is an old method, technology, computer system, or application program.

Viper explained:

“However, in order to generate the server (and the client), a complex build system is being used. It is not just about generating the ‘WoW.exe’ and ‘Server.exe’ files. The build process takes data, models, maps, etc. created by Blizzard and also generates client and server specific files. The client only has the information it needs and the server only has the information that it needs.”

“This means that before re-launching vanilla realms, all of the data needed for the build processes has to be gathered in one place with the code. Not all of this information was under a version control system. In the end, whichever of these parts were lost at any point, they will have to be recreated: this is likely to take a lot of resources through a long development process.”

So it seems that, for now, there aren't going to be any vanilla WoW servers for all of us avid fans. But, although Blizzard is keeping tight-lipped about whether they plan to eventually have their own vanilla WoW servers, the have stated that they plan to stay in touch with the Nostalrius crew and hope to work with them in the future!

Does this mean good, vanilla-y yumminess will be coming to us?

Who's to say?
It's a waiting and guessing game until further notice.



Source: Kotaku