Blizzard shut down a popular old-fashioned server

In a post to accompany the announcement which is now the replacement for the Felmyst forum and website WoTLK Gold, Gummy52 said the server was the culmination over four years' work. He added that a muscular dystrophy condition prevents him from making the move to another country for "an alternative method of hosting servers."

A major reason for this appears to be related to the number of people that have suddenly begun to show interest in the classic server. The intention was to have only a few players playing a traditional version of the game, but it was not possible. Gummy52 claimed that he's not ready to give the game to someone else as in light of the growing interest the server has received, "the market to wrongfully gain from this game is much too lucrative to give it away to anyone on a whim."

"I am sorry that things didn't turn out how I'd imagined, but I'm not sure if I'd reconsider any of the decisions I took," he continued. "I believed that we could keep the servers under 3k and enjoy a close community. However, I was not able to win that gamble, though on some level it was enjoyable to have the sheer number of people who wanted to have fun with something I had created. The project gave me the final three years purpose that I thoroughly enjoyed."

Last year, Blizzard shut down a popular old-fashioned server called Nostralrius which was able to roll back the game to buy WoTLK Gold the vanilla version. In the aftermath, Blizzard met with the creators of Nostralrius. The server's project manager stated, at the meeting, the Blizzard team appeared to support having old servers within the game.