Ex-WoW Team Lead: Blizzard Is “Dead Wrong” Following Nostalrius Statement

A few days agone we reported on Blizzard'due south official response to the 'Nostalrius' discussion. Following the argument, former World of Warcraft team lead, Mark Kern, responded to Blizzard's argument.

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The former WoW developer even sent out an open up letter to Blizzard via Youtube in which he showcased almost 10,000 pages of signatures and comments from the petition that was launched.

"Past now, every gamer who has ever wanted to try WoW has already done and then," Kern points out in the video. "WoW is simply and so big that there are no huge swaths of untapped gamers to attract to the franchise. Simply, at that place are veterans. Millions of them. And they miss their home and their community."

In Blizzard'south official statement, executive producer and vice-president, J. Allen Brack, states that integrating classic servers could only be executed with "great difficulty". When it comes to working with private servers, Brack claimed that there is no "clear legal path to protect Blizzard's IP and grant an operating license to a pirate server."

Blizzard is only "dead wrong" from a legal perspective

In a recent interview with The Escapist, Mark Kern at present states that, from a legal perspective, Brack is "dead wrong".

"I likewise helped draft Blizzard's TOS and EULA, then I know quite a chip almost this stuff," he added. "[Brook's] just...wrong. I don't know where he's getting his advice from, only from a legal perspective he's dead incorrect. Let'south say 'He thinks he knows license agreements, but he doesn't.'"

Kern doesn't deny that licensing of classic WoW servers could be circuitous, merely it's certainly not impossible. Even more than so if 1 considers that Blizzard has already converted their legacy games to run on their new 'Battle.cyberspace' platform.

"They've done this for Diablo 2, Starcraft and Warcraft Three. Information technology's even right on their web page. So yes, I do not understand this respond from Blizzard. It makes no sense when they've done it for their other legacy games", Kern said.

The Nostalrius discussion is getting more interesting every day, and we wonder what will come up of this. We'll continue you lot updated when we learn more on the matter.