Shenna 1,135 Report post Posted February 8, 2017 Greetings Elysium Community, We have some great news to share with you, but here’s a brief emulation history lesson first! Vanilla WoW was first released in 2004, and it’s now been more than 10 years since official support has ended. After these 10 years, the WoW emulation community has been unable to deliver (in totality) the same finalized product that took Blizzard 5 years to develop. This is despite all of the passion and dedication of multiple development teams. So what has caused such a delay in finalizing a stable, and accurate, WoW emulator? Initially, each team was developing its own core privately, and closely guarded its secrets. This caused individual development teams to work separately, rather than together for one goal. Often projects would shut down, and that hard work would be lost. Everyone tried to keep up with Blizzard’s timeline, but things weren’t done properly. Developers started working on Vanilla, then, without finishing, jumped straight into working on TBC. Then moved on to WoTLK, etc — and the cycle of leaving unfinished projects behind continued. Additionally, some projects were driven by ideology, while others endeavored to profit from illegal game servers. For the past 10 years, many projects have been selfish and cared only about their own survival. Developers drove players into flame wars on message boards, stole other team’s code and hid their own, and launched DDoS attacks on rival servers. The emulation scene is as competitive, combative, and selfish as it was back then. Despite their passion for coding and development, no open-source project has succeeded, while commercial projects continue to divide the community, driven by their financial interest. However, the winds are changing. Right now, emulation isn’t about “playing WoW for free” like it was 10 years ago, but more about restoring a Vanilla WoW experience that no longer exists. After Nostalrius shut down, new developers who’ve never had anything to do with WoW servers before became interested in the emulation cause. Ideologically, we’re in an incredible spot. We have community support, we have dedicated fans and developers, and we have a strong working team to finish what we have started. Which brings us to our big announcement today: The Elysium Project will be joining forces with the team over at Crestfall to combine our efforts and finalize development of Legacy WoW! From this point on we will be sharing our passion, experience, developmental, administrative and marketing assets in order to share and grow our community. Combining our team’s experience in data security will help us protect our work from the constant threat of hack attempts from other projects and various interests. This collaboration will deliver to you, our dedicated community and players, the experience you have been craving for the past decade: stable gaming servers that will stand the test of time, without the fear of having to transfer characters around or start from scratch. Together we hope to set an example for other projects, and hopefully the wars amongst the community will finally be over. We cannot stress this enough: we're not in this for money or fame. All we want is to deliver an amazing legacy experience. This may include, down the road, having dedicated teams for each expansion of the game. We’ve had the support of our players for many years, and now is the time for the WoW development community to step up, bury the hatchet, and get to work — together. Finally. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tanks 2 Report post Posted February 8, 2017 (edited) 1st Gummy plz Edited February 8, 2017 by tanks 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nelythia 44 Report post Posted February 8, 2017 Quote The Elysium Project will be joining forces with the team over at Crestfall to combine our efforts and finalize development of Legacy WoW! Big expectations now :p Sounds good! 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Muldreg 3 Report post Posted February 8, 2017 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riplip 2 Report post Posted February 8, 2017 That southshore art is beautiful. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pyrognome 3 Report post Posted February 8, 2017 So what does it mean? Will Crestfall and Elysium merge or will they have the same core or what is it? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Warmonger 0 Report post Posted February 8, 2017 Looks like things are going uphill fast. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Warmonger 0 Report post Posted February 8, 2017 39 minutes ago, Shenna said: For the past 10 years, many projects have been selfish and cared only about their own survival. Developers drove players into flame wars on message boards, stole other team’s code and hid their own, and launched DDoS attacks on rival servers. What could this mean? Hinting that it's another server behind the DDoS attacks? If so, which server? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shayss 43 Report post Posted February 8, 2017 This is like ... just beyond my expectations and assumptions. You continue to deliver over and over and over again. It's hard to expect anything less at this point. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Overtime 6 Report post Posted February 8, 2017 My pixels are safe for now! 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ujellyx 0 Report post Posted February 8, 2017 Does this mean TBC-realms? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shayss 43 Report post Posted February 8, 2017 2 minutes ago, ygvtfc said: Will you continue with the cash shop model from Crestfall? Don't you think 5 servers is too many? "We cannot stress this enough: we're not in this for money or fame." 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tholren 7 Report post Posted February 8, 2017 Cool. TBC is the best. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Haestingas 30 Report post Posted February 8, 2017 Great news for both Crestfall and Elysium. Combining 2 great teams can really only improve the experience of the player. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheDruidCode 28 Report post Posted February 8, 2017 Interesting. Sounds promising. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alrik 6 Report post Posted February 8, 2017 Art without Text. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kazuma 11 Report post Posted February 8, 2017 Nice Southshore art 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alodar 0 Report post Posted February 8, 2017 Any chance this means that once we hit 60 and have finished content that we'd be able to transfer our characters to a Burning Crusade server, etc? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ickus 40 Report post Posted February 8, 2017 Yea, I was wondering that as well. Crestfall's announcement made it sound like Elysium and its servers were going to be vanilla only. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ponyboy 0 Report post Posted February 8, 2017 projects competing with each other were like flies buzzing annoyingly around blizzards ears. Joining forces and having the majority of the community in one place has got to perk their interest and probably cause some worry. We will be much harder to ignore. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pentaside 0 Report post Posted February 8, 2017 As a web developer who would love to give back to this community that I've come to love... how can I help? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ickus 40 Report post Posted February 8, 2017 Yea, definitely agree with that. Hopefully we're gonna get some PTE here, which would be absolutely amazing. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kazuma 11 Report post Posted February 8, 2017 I hope people are learning lessons where Peenix did wrong with warsong. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted February 8, 2017 12 hours ago, Alodar said: Any chance this means that once we hit 60 and have finished content that we'd be able to transfer our characters to a Burning Crusade server, etc? Redacted until we have final explanation :) 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zeo 1 Report post Posted February 8, 2017 (edited) This sounds great and all, and I'm happy to hear about cooperation when it comes to perfecting legacy code. Something did concern me in Crestfall's news post, however... They mentioned, while listing the 3 developer communities in partnership, that Elysium will remain a permanent vanilla server. I was under the assumption that, once Naxx had been cleared on Elysium servers, the servers would either progress after some time to TBC or the option would be give to transfer/copy the characters to a TBC realm. Was I mistaken about this? Will the Crestfall-based Benediction server be the only one in the partnership to allow progression through expansions? I'm already at 2 level 60s and climbing on Elysium because I thought I could use these character for many years to come in Kara and beyond, but now I'm worried that I might have wasted a good deal of time if the Crestfall server is the only one offering this feature. Any comments from the Elysium staff on this matter would be appreciated! :) edit- HAHA! Nevermind! Tyche replied to me with his round-about ESP seconds before I hit submit. Thanks! Edited February 8, 2017 by Manji 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
