Windflow

ROSS !!! PLEASE AID OUR SITUATION IF POSSIBLE ! Sorry for the unusual "rant/help-yelling" post ,but there is sort of a crisis going on that started earlier yesterday. There is a "legendary"(in my humble opinion) World of Warcraft server (don't know if you've heard of it ,or even a fan) it's called Nostalrius (heavy emphasis on the "nostal" part of the name). First off it's a private "vanilla" server dedicated to re-living "the old gamer days" of WoW. A team of around 30 people (yes! just 30 humans) worked day and night to get this server going over a period of around 2 years (if I remember correctly and if you include planning and not just server uptime) to make it a [virtual] reality. This is where I should point out that as far as I and the whole community of around 200k [ACTIVE!] accounts know is that the team is non-materially motivated to do all the work on the server. Maybe they get some donations but they definitely do NOT give out rewards such as custom gear and stuff like that because of a donation. SO, they are basicly volunteers in this epic battle for a classic, running, almost bug-free and community based vanilla WoW server (they were working on releasing the raid instance of A.Q. which was to be launched next month). And now I should probably get to the REAL point because I don't wanna waste any more of your precious time with bullshit you may not care about but I'm a fan of your work since about the 20th Freeman's Mind episode and I've noticed that recently you've started talking about companies killing games so I guess it's kind of the same topic, only difference is that Blizzard is killing something that technically isn't really even theirs anymore. I don't know how much you know about WoW but that's basically what's happening there. OFFTOPIC: This is the FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE that I've ever asked for this kind of help in any way but any light on the subject or mention in one of your videos could probably SAVE this server. And I know that this doesn't really fit well enough on your personal "war-list" but it's a huge issue for the 8k average players that used to be online at any given moment in the game. Which I want to add ,have almost "dropped dead" in the last 10 hours to the pitiful 3-4k. And it will probably go down to zero after the 9th of april. So back to "Nostalrius", long story short ,it launched about a year ago and made GIGANTIC progress ,since then everything was going perfect except for one small detail. Blizzard didn't like seeing a server with just 1 seriously populated realm that DOES NOT DROP BELOW 6k at any given moment and maxes out to about 13k (or so I've seen ,playing the last 2-3 weeks) not to mention the other 4-5 realms that are mainly test realms. All that changed YESTERDAY. Blizzard has convinced the Nostalrius team (I imagine through lawsuits and maybe even actual threats) to back down and shut down their servers on the 10th this month or earlier. Even though they absolutely do not provide the same service as Blizzard does AND they do it for FREE! So I've basically made my sharpest point ,lastly I just want to add that if ANYONE wants to help out ,there is a petition going on right now about giving this server a legacy of sorts status ,so if someone wants to give a hand I'll post the link below. That's pretty much all I had to write minus my short-story, and this is probably my first serious post ANYWHERE ,so I guess that counts as something ,who knows. On an end point I just wanna mention my experience from about 3 hours ago ,when most of the players learned what was happening to the server. EPIC INTERFACTIONARY STORY I was on my way to Ironforge to see about a serious chat spam and flood going on there. While walking there from Wetlands on foot ,inside the first tunnel I saw a group of 3 Hordes (I'm from the Alliance faction) that were walking out of it and coming my way. In that moment I was fighting some NPC orc 10 lvls above me (long story). When I saw them I thought that they were some kind of an old NPC patrolling group I didn't know about or was custom made. I freaked out because I already had low HP because of the orc I was trying to get by. When they emerged from the tunnel ,I realized ... they were lvl 60 hordes with 3-4 legendary items and AT LEAST a total of 4 straight weeks of in-game playing. They were marching ... I felt chills down my spine that I've never felt in my gaming life. Once more ,they did not attack me. On the contrary ,they even helped kill the orc that had almost killed me. I /bow -ed to them and one of them just /cry -ed on my shoulder as they continued to march. I've never seen anything like this before. Even if they were making a video about the server going down ... it was still an epic moment in gaming no one will NEVER get to see or feel in retail WoW gaming. Thank you all SO MUCH for the time if you got to read my entire post. It's mostly just me rambling and trying to save a virtual world. But I would be DAMNED and would rather go full retard on the entire internet then just sit on my skinny ass and just let this go like everything else good in my life that just got torn to pieces as me and my fellow comrades watch helplessly as the hell progressed. Cheers ,from Nazzariel [Community Leader of the Original Eclipsed] [An Original WoW guild formed 2004-2006(retail) that has made long lasting internet gaming friendships that are still strong and alive today] P.S.: Once I got to Ironforge [the capital city of the dwarf race] I took 2 screenshots of the already decaying large group of highly pissed off players gathering for one last epic raid on Orgrimmar [the capital city of the orc race and faction]. Well ... most of them were just spamming but you will definitely not witness something like this in any other existing classic WoW private server. Enjoy!

Damn I cant wait to watch Tunnel it was a 2 year wait but I hope its all worth it ^^