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They could still outsource running old versions to a third party (with some sort of revenue share). They could have let these guys continue to run, sanction it
by kriro 11y ago
They could still outsource running old versions to a third party (with some sort of revenue share). They could have let these guys continue to run, sanction it but demand they charge X$ and pay y% of that to Blizzard.
There are some pretty obvious downsides to that plan but it's an option.
- pvg 11y agoIt amounts to the same thing - 'they can do some deeply convoluted, labourious thing for a few thousand nostalgic players' or 'they can focus on meeting the needs and collecting the payments of their millions of existing customers'. It's hard to see how the former makes the slightest bit of sense for them.
- vlan0 11y agoI actually question how much interest there would be. Nostalrius reported 150k active players, with over 800k accounts. That is much higher than I would have thought.
- pvg 11y agoWhere did they report this? It seems like it had a few thousand players online at a time on a single server.
- vlan0 11y agoI originally saw those numbers stated in one of the first articles covering this topic, but I do not remember which site it was on. However, I did see they also mentioned it on their AMA. https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/4droz4/we_are_nostalrius_a_world_of_warcraft_fanmade/d1tqz6t https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/4droz4/we_are_nostalri...