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Updates 2016/05/01 SITUATION UPDATE - MEETING WITH BLIZZARD Read the announcement 2016/04/28 240.000 PEOPLE ASKING FOR WOW LEGACY SERVER Read the announcement 2016/04/10 NEARLY ONE MILLION GAMING ACCOUNTS LOST IN LEGACY SERVERS Download the official press release Overall statistics They talk about us Action Trip Digital Publisher AppTrigger Digital Publisher Ars Technica Digital Publisher Asmongold WoW YouTuber BellularGaming YouTuber Boogie2988 YouTuber BonusWeb Digital Publisher Buffed Digital Publisher CG Magazine Magazine ComputerGames.ro Digital Publisher Dalaran Gaming Youtuber Daily Emerald Digital Publisher DestrucToid Digital Publisher The Escapist Magazine Euro Gamer Digital Publisher ExtremeTech Digital Publisher Forbes Digital Publisher FZ.se Digital Publisher GameBlog Video Game Magazine GameBomb.ru Video Game Magazine Game Informer Video Game Magazine GameQuarter Digital Publisher Gamer.no Digital Publisher Gamereactor EU Digital Publisher Gamereactor SE Digital Publisher Gamers Globak Digital Publisher Gamesource.it Digital Publisher GameSkinny Digital Publisher GameSpot Digital Publisher GameStar DE Digital Publisher GameStar HU Digital Publisher GameZone Digital Publisher GeekSnack Digital Publisher Gamifique Digital Publisher Gizmodo Digital Publisher Golem.de Digital Publisher Hazzed Gaming Youtuber Heel vs Babyface Game commentator & Streamer iDigitalTimes Digital Publisher IGN Digital Publisher International Business Times AU Digital Publisher International Business Times UK Digital Publisher Inside Gamer Digital Publisher Jeux Online Digital Publisher Jeuxvideo.com Digital Publisher JonTronShow Youtuber JudgeHype Digital Publisher KitGuru Digital Publisher Kotaku Digital Publisher Massively Overpowered Digital Publisher MegaGames Digital Publisher Mein MMO Digital Publisher Meristation Digital Publisher MMOsite Digital Publisher Motherboard Digital Publisher MXDWN Digital Publisher Neowin WoW Machinima Artist Next INpact.com WoW Machinima Artist Nixxiom WoW Machinima Artist Numerama Digital Publisher NZGamer Digital Publisher PC Gamer Digital Publisher PC Gamer Digital Publisher PCGames Digital Publisher PCGamesN Digital Publisher PCInvasion Digital Publisher PlayGround.ru Digital Publisher Polygon Digital Publisher Power Unlimited Digital Publisher PressFire.no Digital Publisher Rock Paper Shotgun Digital Publisher SegmentNext Digital Publisher Shacknews Digital Publisher Sinat Digital Publisher Silicon Angle Digital Publisher SlashGear Digital Publisher Sodapoppin WoW Streamer Spieletipps Digital Publisher The Lawton Constitution Digital Publisher TechnoBuffalo Digital Publisher t-online.de Digital Publisher TheBitBag Digital Publisher TheGamersDrop Digital Publisher The Rain Man LoL Streamer Tweakers LoL Streamer Übergizmo Digital Publisher USgamer Digital Publisher WinFuture Digital Publisher WCCFtech Digital Publisher ZAM Digital Publisher ZEIT ONLINE Digital Publisher ZybakTV Youtuber 4Players Digital Publisher 20 minutes Newspaper Announcement Choose your language to read the announcement: English 中文 Русский Deutsch Swedish Español Portuguese Italiano Magyar Français Dear community, For over a year, you have been part of an extraordinary journey. A journey back in the early days of our beloved game. A journey in which hundreds of thousands of people took part in together. Something that we had never seen before, either on retail or private servers. Together, we built a strong community, sharing values and a common genuine interest for this wonderful game created by Blizzard. Yesterday, we received a letter of formal notice from US and french lawyers, acting on behalf of Blizzard Entertainment, preparing to stand trial against our hosting company OVH and ourselves in less than a week now. This means the de facto end of Nostalrius under its current form. As soon as we received this letter, we decided to inform the team and players about the future of Nostalrius, where we have all passionately committed our time and energy as volunteers. PvP, PvE & Nostalrius TBC and all related servers will be definitively shutdown at 23:00 server time on the 10th of April 2016, if our hosting company keeps the server online for that long. It feels kind of unreal, but we want to continue to serve our players as we did, and the best we can in the remaining time. What will happen next? This time, we have no plan for the future, and will have to rely entirely on our community and/or the private server scene. We know the time you spent here, the guilds you were part of, and these people with whom you have shared experiences with. We know the strength of these links, and we also know that they do not need a special WoW realm to survive. However, we will still be publicly providing everything needed in order to setup your own “Nostalrius” if you are willing to. Today is also the day where Nostalrius will start being community-driven in the truest sense of the word, as we will be releasing the source code, and anonymized players data (encrypting personal account data), so the community as a whole will decide the form of the future of Nostalrius. We will still be there in the background if you want us to, but will no longer take the lead. We also initiated an open letter addressed to Blizzard, that you can read and forward if you want. It won’t bring Nostalrius back, but it is a way to express ourselves as a community. Nostalrius was all about the nostalgia and memories of the glorious vanilla days. We don’t know if you truly felt like it was the glory days while playing here, but we hope that you will keep good memories of the time spent here. Once again, we can all be proud to have been part of the Nostalrius journey, no matter how much time was actually spent “in-game”. With our best regards, The whole Nostalrius team. Administrators, Daemon & Viper. Developers, Joan, Chakor, Etiakor & Cursive GM Team, Tyrael, Abuthar, Akasso, Benevael, Cabotage, Eragon, Ithlien, Nalorious, Nathrizyr, Pottu, Quietist, Roffeal, Same, Seshinriyu, Vaelanor & Voltog. Testing team, Nano, Fenrir, Link, Stryg, Shahkar, Clank Syrah in the communication team and all the other contributors who helped us during all this time, officially or unofficially. Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Albert Einstein....