legacy server
Massively OP’s 2018 Awards: Best MMO Trend of 2018
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2018 awards continue today with our award for the Best MMO Trend of 2018, which was awarded to the trend of developer communication...
EVE Evolved: How would you reboot EVE Online?
EVE Online has been pretty comfortable in its hardcore sci-fi MMO niche for over 15 years now, working its way through dozens of expansions and...
RIFT datamining looks at Prime server and Patch 4.4
With the opening of RIFT Prime on March 7th, players are showing an increased interest in this nearly seven-year-old MMO. One thing that everyone...
EverQuest announces ‘true box’ progression server
These days, EverQuest seems to exist to be a test bed for different progression server concepts. Its community certainly doesn't tire of starting all...
The Daily Grind: Are you thinking of WoW Classic as a totally new MMO?
Early on in all the WoW Classic hoopla, I'd been thinking of World of Warcraft legacy servers as the sort of gimmick servers that...
The Daily Grind: How old should an MMO be to consider classic servers?
Last week, Justin and I were chit-chatting about legacy servers in MMORPGs when he said that Trion should really get moving on classic servers...
BlizzCon 2017: World of Warcraft’s classic server will be a ‘massive effort’
In the process of picking yourself up off of the floor following Friday's announcement of World of Warcraft Classic at BlizzCon 2017? As your...
RIFT surveys players on ‘challenge server’ idea, hosts artifact weekend
You might recall that back in March, the RIFT producer's letter stated that the team was mulling over the idea of instituting limited-run "challenge...
EverQuest’s new classic server has rough launch
If you're looking for the authentic classic MMO experience, shouldn't a rough launch be part of it? That's kind of the sour joke you...
Nostalrius releases WoW emu source code to community, Elysium plans Nostalrius shards
Back before BlizzCon, the admins of the now-sunsetted illegal World of Warcraft emulator Nostalrius issued a vague threat. "If Blizzard doesn’t make an announcement...
Mark Kern posts new WoW Legacy server petition ahead of BlizzCon
There's yet another petition related to legacy World of Warcraft servers live this week, this one begun by Mark Kern himself.
Kern (more on his backstory...
Blizzard isn’t announcing WoW legacy servers at BlizzCon
Blizzard's J. Allen Brack has a post on the official forums tonight that ought to temper expectations players might have about World of Warcraft...
Mark Kern says Blizzard took his vanilla WoW petition meeting ‘very seriously’
Mark Kern, who this weekend went to Blizzard's campus armed with the printed vanilla World of Warcraft server petition, has returned from his meeting...
Nostalrius team surveys community about a World of Warcraft legacy ruleset
As we've been reporting, the team from the shuttered Nostalrius World of Warcraft emulator has been appointed as "ambassadors" of a sort to represent...
The Nostalrius team on hopes for a legacy World of Warcraft server
For those who can't get enough information about what led to the creation and maintenance of the Nostalrius World of Warcraft server, the site...
