In some cases, Nostalrius players who intended to stream its last hours were shut down by Twitch. Some fans even recorded video of the final moments, preserving the minute that the servers disconnected everyone for the last time. A variety of players posted screenshots of the crowds that amassed in various areas hours before the shutdown. Others waited until April 10 to say goodbye to their characters. The walk across several of the game's regions took over an hour, according to a participant on Nostalrius' subreddit. In the days leading up to the shutdown, some players who didn't want to wait until its official end embarked upon a "suicide march." Participants trudged in a straight line from the game's horde capital Orgrimmar to Thunder Bluff, where they jumped to their deaths from its namesake peak. Yesterday, several fans took to YouTube, Reddit, Twitter and other places to share pictures from the frontlines of Nostalrius' closure. The owners of Nostalrius' 150,000 active accounts took the news hard, and their support for the popular server - which allowed fans to experience an older, "vanilla" version of World of Warcraft - only strengthened in its last hours. "server time" on April 10, Nostalrius disconnected its players and shut down for good.
After being slapped with a cease-and-desist order from Blizzard Entertainment last week - private servers, according to Blizzard, violate the company's terms of use - the team of volunteers that kept the server afloat announced it was forced to close it down. With 7 million active WoW players worldwide, 150,000 angry vanilla players is a drop in the bucket, especially when focusing energy on new content expansions, like the upcoming Legion, brings in millions more players each year.World of Warcraft's biggest private server, Nostalrius, closed down last night. As such, nobody but Blizzard has the right to accept money to support World of Warcraft … While some may argue that the popularity of private servers such as this one indicate that Blizzard should consider opening legacy servers, Blizzard maintains that they have no interest in doing so.” Blizzard created the game, Blizzard maintained the game and Blizzard brought us this world to enjoy. “ World of Warcraft is the intellectual property of Blizzard Entertainment.
While I admire their passion for the game, they’re forgetting some important facts,” the company wrote in a blog about the Nostalrius shut down. “It is clear that there is a significantly sized portion of players who are nostalgic for the time represented by this server. But despite this plea from the WoW vanilla community, Blizzard remains firm in its decision not to create a legacy server. The petition is less than 24 hours old and has already received more than 24,000 signatures. In addition, Nostalrius creators issued an open letter petition to Blizzard requesting once again that a legacy server be built.
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