The original World of Warcraft MMO was a very different game from what is today, making many long-time WoW players wish to return to the early days of the game where the game was more community focus and there was the possibility of having a unique item, recipe or just the feeling that your guild membership had a larger meaning. 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. If we could push a button and all of this would be created, we would. We explored options for developing classic servers and none could be executed without great difficulty. 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. This applies to anything that uses WoW’s IP, including unofficial servers. 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. It is also stated that Blizzard had look into the possibility of granting an operating licence to allow a private vanilla WoW server to exist, but that there was no way to do so that would offer full protection of their WoW IP. In an open letter to the World of Warcraft community, Blizzard Employee "Nethaera" stated that they know that there is an audience that desires the classic World of Warcraft experience, but that developing classic servers would be a difficult challenge and not as easy to implement as simply rolling back a few patches. If Blizzard lost control of the World of Warcraft IP there would be nothing to stop other companies from external companies to make unofficial games, merchandise, and other products using characters and story aspects of the World of Warcraft franchise, all without Blizzard getting any money from it. With the shutdown of the popular Nostalrius World of Warcraft server, a private player server that allowed people to play the 2004 "Vanilla" version of World of Warcraft, Blizzard has made it clear that they have to protect their World of Warcraft IP or risk losing control of it. In the world of Intelectual Property, IP, you have to actively protect it or risk losing your ability to protect it entirely, meaning that there is no room to allow anything that is not yours to be using your IP without risking your IPS protected status. Blizzard speaks out about "Vanilla WOW" server shutdownīlizzard has spoken out about "Vanilla WOW" Nostalrius server shutdown, stating that there is no clear legal path that can allow such servers to exist while protecting their own rights.
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