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Situation update - 1st May 2016

PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2016 4:48 pm
by Daemon
Dear community,

The last few weeks have been full of exciting events that we did not anticipate. We saw the first official answer from J. Allen Brack on the topic of legacy servers, the petition reached 250.000 signatures, and we are currently scheduling a meeting at Blizzard campus!

We are very excited to be able to help Blizzard understand the part of their community asking for legacy servers and many other related topics, in the hope that they will eventually make it possible to legally play previous game expansions.

Since these events are major changes regarding the legacy server scene, completely changing our former strategy, we have several announcements today:

A. Ambassadors of Legacy servers

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 a larger movement for the entire World of Warcraft community that wants to see game history restored. It is a major responsibility. Our top-priority and only focus now is to fulfill the needs of this community, by carrying your voice to Blizzard directly.


B. Nostalrius source code and database won’t be released

We acknowledge the help that the emulation community provided to us by creating MaNGOS and our initial objective was to release part of these sources to help improve the current emulators - without our special anti-cheat and some other critical features.

Our custom anticheat had unique functionalities that allowed us to detect and track any kind of hack / bot in a generic way. We believe the anticheat that we made was able to detect and was able to block all of the known threats, and releasing our code would allow the development of more powerful cheating tools that would be more difficult, if not impossible, to detect. We have spent countless hours to fight people making money from exploits, cheats and traffics: the last thing we want to see now is people getting more money from wow hacks because of us.

Some voices in the emulation scene wanted to legally force us to release the complete source code if we chose to only publish a part of it. As explained above, the anticheat is not something we would reveal in any case.

A second important point is that keeping the sources private could be useful at some point during the discussion with Blizzard. They proposed to discuss together and we want to have all the chances on our side, for the community we represent now.

Furthermore, if official legacy servers were to be released at some point in the future, the emulation would become, in essence, obsolete for our community.



C. A special gift for you

On a side note, the development team has prepared a gift for you. One of the hidden Nostalrius features was the ability to "replay" sequences of the game. This is something that was mainly used to create our videos, but never released to players. We accumulated a few replays of different events that occurred on our PvP and PvE servers, and we are willing to let you replay these magic moments. We are glad to inform you that Nostalrius team is releasing the first "replay" feature for World of Warcraft, and will be available to anyone: a powerful tool for future e-sport event maybe ?

The source code is available here (based on BunnyEmu, credit to their developers) :
https://github.com/NostalriusVanilla/NostalriusMemories
You can download the package with replays here:
https://mega.nz/#!gZdlFaII!ZqZreXhM2vr- ... oqTjbZjp5g [Updated]

Requirements (not provided):
World of Warcraft original 1.12.1 client
Optional: WDB item cache filled (or you will see players naked)

We hope you will enjoy these replays that we are introducing here and you will be able to carry these wonderful Nostalrius memories for ever with you.

D. Community feedback and thoughts

We will need the help and feedback of the whole World of Warcraft community to carry all their voices, and make the meeting with Blizzard a success. More information will be available on an announcement next week. Please, stay tuned!

Best regards,
Nostalrius Team.

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this ... you haven't.
Thomas A. Edison

Re: Situation update - 31st April 2016

PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2016 4:49 pm
by Mimma
B. Nostalrius source code and database won’t be released


Just as I predicted here: viewtopic.php?f=76&t=44005&start=20#p305785

I am pretty sure that after the Nostalrius team have been invited to talk with Blizzard at their campus it would be a bad move to release the database or the source code. It would at least not improve chances to get legacy realms.


Re: Situation update - 1st May 2016

PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2016 4:54 pm
by Lovedot
Thank you Nost!

Cant wait.

Re: Situation update - 1st May 2016

PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2016 4:55 pm
by Dumame
Off-topic

Re: Situation update - 1st May 2016

PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2016 4:55 pm
by Meliov
We will always have your back guys!

Good luck in the meeting with Blizzard.

Re: Situation update - 1st May 2016

PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2016 4:55 pm
by Rajc
we're all gonna make it brahs


chill about the source code etc, maybe blizzard gonna restore the server and you can play your characters that you lost during nostalrius in the official WoW server


..who knows, let's stay optimistic lol

Re: Situation update - 1st May 2016

PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2016 4:56 pm
by Sigals
Not releasing the source code is kind of bullshit...

Re: Situation update - 1st May 2016

PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2016 4:56 pm
by Oth
????????????????

Re: Situation update - 1st May 2016

PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2016 4:56 pm
by phrazer
wow has an e-sports scene?. sorry guys im not getting to much info from this announcement. Seems a bit of a none informative announcement.

I always believe the hype.

Re: Situation update - 1st May 2016

PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2016 4:56 pm
by Astrapios
Can't wait to check out those replays, thank you Nostalrius :)