Blizzard has responded to complaints sparked by the closure of the World of Warcraft Nostalrius server.
The unlicensed server offered a vanilla World of Warcraft experience - running a very early version of the game - that Blizzard itself no longer provided, and last month's closure spawned a petition to reinstate it that gathered over 235,000 signatures.
Stating the developer had to close the server in order to preserve the developer's intellectual property, World of Warcraft's executive producer, J. Allen Brack, wrote on the official forum (via Eurogamer) "failure to protect against intellectual property infringement would damage Blizzard's rights". While Blizzard had "looked into the possibility" of working with unofficial servers, there was "not a clear legal path to protect Blizzard’s IP and grant an operating license to a pirate server".
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The unlicensed server offered a vanilla World of Warcraft experience - running a very early version of the game - that Blizzard itself no longer provided, and last month's closure spawned a petition to reinstate it that gathered over 235,000 signatures.
Stating the developer had to close the server in order to preserve the developer's intellectual property, World of Warcraft's executive producer, J. Allen Brack, wrote on the official forum (via Eurogamer) "failure to protect against intellectual property infringement would damage Blizzard's rights". While Blizzard had "looked into the possibility" of working with unofficial servers, there was "not a clear legal path to protect Blizzard’s IP and grant an operating license to a pirate server".
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