Totoro wrote
Blizzard are meeting with the people who created the private server Nostralius this week I believe. They're working something out. And if that doesn't work out they'll create a pristine realm for players that resembles Vanilla, of course no one would want that as much as classic WoW but still it's something.
Maintaining diverging paths of software is way too costly and complex for any company. (even one as big as Activision-Blizzard)
Pristine realms aren't going to satisfy the Vanilla cravers and Blizzard has clearly said that they will not maintain
or allow Nostralius folk to maintain a vanilla realm. The link was pretty clear on that.
My guess is they will simply keep the
discussions open indefinitely or until such a time when they find good reason in having a vanilla realm. (factoring number of players, difficulty to maintain and income)
I'd much rather they invest every single asset they have making the game better, than worrying about vanilla, but that's just me.
