by Khasar44 » Sun Oct 22, 2017 2:49 am
It would seem that two of Elysium's admins made some errors in judgement. Whether they had reasons that could be rationalized or simply acted out of greed is anyone's guess. However, I don't perceive that either of their activities justified stealing the data and razing the servers. Another thing mentioned was a possibility of the selling of user data. No factual evidence was presented, just suspicions placed at the end of actual accusations which were used to justify the act. The act itself was pointless as the servers can be rebuilt using a backup which is, apparently, what is being done. I don't believe I would trust anyone who would willfully steal a database and destroy servers based upon suspicions. At any rate, the ultimate effect is to deal a body blow to legacy gaming.
I have read how Blizzard resorted to lawyers to shut Nostalrius down, then paid lip service to damage control the bad press from the uproar that followed. They aren't interested in legacy servers and never will be. It wouldn't surprise me if they had a hand in this destruction of the Elysium Project and made opportune use of the questionable activities of two sysadmins as justification to turn the rest of the community against legacy gaming. I've seen elsewhere remarks that suggest the community is being conditioned by propaganda to regard legacy gaming as piracy. I suppose from the point of view of Blizzard's lawyers, that's exactly what it is. I know for a fact that they have some-one/entity putting spyware out on the inet to identify IP addresses of people who download legacy clients which is followed by a 'your client has violated our client's copyright' letter to the inet providers which result in a nastygram to that inet client threatening termination of service. It is my perception that Blizzard is playing hardball. A combination of demonizing as well as threatening legacy players. Blizzard ruined the game as much by destroying content as by attracting a new clientele whom I find to be arrogant, nasty and immature. I am done with Blizzard. Even if they relent and re-create legacy servers, I will never do business with them again.