The screen may be wider, but essentially little has changed. much as I did when I was in elementary school. At any point I could dig out the Nintendo Entertainment System my parents bought me in 1986 and experience Super Mario Bros. "However, we definitively lose at the same time the possibility to play the game we initially purchased."īut it's certainly easier to capture those experience with other games. "Today, a lot of the games we enjoy can only be played online, and get regular patches to release new content, improve the gameplay, and remove bugs," he said. It also helped that servers were contained entities where players made reputations for themselves, and thus you could find yourself without anyone to group with if everyone else learned you were an asshole. Some of the greatest friendships in my life began from such chance encounters. There was much less of an emphasis on the "world's greatest hero" approach that today's World of Warcraft champions instead, common enemies like murlocs could easily kill you if you just rushed in, and thus you were compelled to look for friends to play with to tackle them safely. It was, effectively, a different game in 2004, and playing Nostalrius was thus a bit like going back in time. Nostalrius' admins were trying to make WoW's storied legacy live on in something besides low resolution videos and stories from old timers like me in trade chat.
Owing to the ever-evolving nature and heavy populations of massively multiplayer online role-playing games like World of Warcraft, Blizzard's decision effectively amounts to bulldozing a living history museum. In a sense, this was inevitable, and it's frankly surprising that Blizzard let it thrive for so long without taking action.īut there's cause to mourn Nostalrius' demise and reason to frown on Blizzard's actions.
Nostalrius' existence essentially amounts to piracy (particularly since the game proper is still going strong), and such things are expressly forbidden by Blizzard's own terms of use. Blizzard, of course, is acting within its rights.
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