Blizzard is working on “vanilla” legacy servers for WoW.
Blizzard announced World of Warcraft Classic during its BlizzCon 2017 keynote, which is a “classic” server option for WoW.
Classic, which is currently in development at Blizzard, is an attempt to replicate the feeling of playing the original World of Warcraft — though not necessarily how it played right at launch.
“We want to reproduce the game experience that we all enjoyed from the original classic WoW without the launch experience,” J. Allen Brack said during the BlizzCon keynote.
IGN spoke to Blizzard at BlizzCon 2016 about the possibility of legacy servers ever coming to the game, and the ensuing months saw Blizzard dealing with private “vanilla” servers. The vanilla private server Nostalrius, after being shut down by Blizzard last year, was reopened at the end of 2016. But the start of 2017 saw the team behind Nostalrius clashing with those making Elysium, another private, legacy server.
Blizzard also took swift action earlier this year, shutting down another WoW legacy server hours after it opened.
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Jonathon Dornbush is an Associate Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter @jmdornbush.