Different hardware? They might want some new stuff, but if you checked the cost Nost had to put up, to run such an old game, its insanly cheap now vs 10 years ago.
Yes different hardware, and i dont think any company would go only for 2 or 3 servers.
They would go for more with paid developers/GMs and stuff for each one and consider they would prefer to make them
way faster than the long period a single server like Nostalrius took.
There is a big cost as it is almost a new project for them.
They would never go this far if they were not seriously considering going for Vanilla servers themselfs, i dont see your logic at all.
No, they aren't going for any vanilla server, maybe they wanna make the game harder and more challenging but they have officially declined going back to vanilla or TBC which means their CEO and council thought of this idea LOOONG ago before Nostalrius, as many private servers (FEENIX ones had 8k on peak @2011) had raised.
The meeting's purpose is to collect data from a questionnaire filled by hundreds of their ex-clients and i wish i had the time to explain you how important is for a huge company to collect such data.
Anyways, we ll see how it goes in a few days.
Lets hope my predictions will be wrong.
