Shut down again?

[Purplestone90 0]

Whats to stop blizzard from shutting these servers down again? Don't know much about the whole situation so forgive me but I am curious.

[Tholren 7]

This has been answered over and over again. Research, please.

[Holkan 13]

As far as I know and I may have some of this wrong / read the wrong information lots of private servers get cease and desist letters. Nostalrius willingly shut their server down although living in France if blizzard did decide to pursue further legal action they could be taken  to court. Elysium has said they will ignore any cease and desist letters they receive. Supposedly they live in Russia or so I've read and copyright law doesn't mean фекал to Russia. If their host is forced to take down the server they will just pick another and rehost the data base.

[Kazuma 11]

Not sure if it is just that simple. We'll see

[Faith 5]

Actually the Elysium server is in the location the Nos server was. Blizzard would have to take them to court. I don't think this will ever happen. The фекал storm it would cause could villainess blizzard more than the first shutdown did.

[SikSan 4]

Well, that's the fun part for me. So the russians are in command now. So they can ingore blizzard. But they decided to host their servers at OVH (the same place where Nost was). And OVH can't ignore blizzard. Yeah, they can move to another host any time, but what is the point to use already compromised host? Correct me if I'm wrong but this feels like a plain stupidity.

Edited December 7, 2016 by SikSan

[arbet 9]

Nostalrius chose to shut down, Blizzard did not shut them down.

[Stephen 0]

They basically said that their response to any C&D order from blizzard would be something along the lines of....

 

Edited December 7, 2016 by Stephen

[Kazuma 11]

Well, that's the fun part for me. So the russians are in command now. So they can ingore blizzard. But they decided to host their servers at OVH (the same place where Nost was). And OVH can't ignore blizzard. Yeah, they can move to another host any time, but what is the point to use already compromised host? Correct me if I'm wrong but this feels like a plain stupidity.

OVH has a very good price/quality.

[Tudi 0]

It can be a good chance for Bilzzard to shutdown the server just to show where is the power.

most of the time they don't but Elysium is a big community.

[sojs123 0]

they can ignore blizzard the only reason nost shut down in the first place was they wanted publicity and possibly job opportunities

 

 

lead dev already got one through that mark kern guy

[Edwin Van Queef 0]

Who knows if it will get shut down, Live for the present. Enjoy the game while it's around.

[Tudi 0]

sojs123 yes you can ignore that piece of paper but that is just a warning they tell you shut down the server or see you in court. Blizzard is just trying to scare you but if they really want is not hard to sue Nost/Elysium.

Edited December 8, 2016 by Tudi

[Papajimboh 12]

If they do ever shut it down, they could just relaunch it again. 

And again. 

And again. 

 

We're a lot more stubborn than Blizzard is. I'd rather play for a year at a time with a couple month break than play retail right now. Tell them to stop putting out shitty expansions and maybe people will want to play their game. 

[Aveton 8]

the only reason nost shut down in the first place was they wanted publicity and possibly job opportunities

Agree. Nost's devs just tried to be good guys in Blizzard's eyes.

 

Even if they shutdown Elysium (which is highly improbable) the project will reborn again by someone else.

[ALostVendetta 0]

My thoughts on this are why would the Elysium team put fourth all this effort to bring the servers back if they are just gonna roll over when Blizzard comes knocking? Also I do not believe Blizzard will push to hard to shut Elysium down because of bad PR, we all know how bad it made them look the first time.