Our latest coverage of nostalrius.
Following several stress tests, the release date for Elysium's Nostalrius realms has been set. You will once again be able to relive your time playing vanilla World of Warcraft on the most authentic private server yet on December 17th at 12 PM EST. At launch, there will be but one PvE realm and one PvP realm. If the footage and [...]
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In a forum post Blizzard community manager Ornyx stated Blizzard will not discuss legacy servers at Blizzcon; even though there have been some rumblings in the community since Nostalrius made an arresting comment earlier this month: Blizzard's Blizzcon is on the 4-5 November, a month from now. This is the golden occasion for them to announce their plan for legacy [...]
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Nostalrius' meeting with Blizzard has come and gone. After spending some time preparing to do so, the team behind the popular World of Warcraft private server announced the details of the meeting earlier today. One quote stands out among the rest: "After this meeting, we can affirm that these guys WANT to have legacy WoW servers, that is for sure." [...]
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Wondering why we haven't heard anything from Nostalrius in over a week? The quest for World of Warcraft legacy servers takes time to prepare. A new announcement posted yesterday states the following. During the last few weeks, our team has been continuing the post-mortem analysis/writing that we have been conducting in the background since Nostalrius shutdown, plus interviews with several [...]
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By now, you have likely heard that the Nostalrius team is set to meet with Blizzard. The team has now released a new update in which the following is stated: After the answer from Blizzard and the amazing support we received, we feel we are now not only the admins of a private server: We are also the ambassadors of [...]
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When Blizzard explained why it shut down Nostalrius, it was mentioned that the company had been in contact with the team that had been in contact with members of Nostalrius' team. While the nature of their discussions has still yet to be announced, it appears that discussions are going fairly well, as the Nostalrius team announced today that they will [...]
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The team behind World of Warcraft's largest private server Nostalrius announced yesterday that they will be shutting the server down following cease and desist letters that Blizzard had sent to both them and their hosting provider, OVH. The shutdown will officially occur on April 10th, granted their hosting company does not shut them down before then. Soon, the Nostalrius server [...]
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