Blizzard 2016 News & Updates: 'World of Warcraft' Won't Get Remastered Versions Just Yet But Legacy Server Nostalrius Will Return

Before BlizzCon 2016 took place, fans have been rumbling about some of the missed games and their features online. One of these is "World of Warcraft's" legacy server named Nostalrius.

Makers behind Nostalrius have earlier warned BlizzCon 2016 by saying "If Blizzard doesn't make an announcement to honor their own core values, be sure that we will," Kotaku reports. Nostalrius has reportedly gained over one million registered users. Blizzard's reason of telling gamers to shut the legacy server was for security purposes.

The creators of the legacy server Nostalrius have been very furious when Blizzard did not reach out after a few meetings. They were hoping to get a collaboration with the company to make a legacy server that can meet Blizzard's standards.

Just recently, this group of creators, headed by its Program Manager under a nick Viper, finally confirmed the return of Nostalrius. "This server shares the volunteer spirit and passion for the game we had. Furthermore, an important part of Nostalrius volunteers are already working there, some under different names. We wish them all the best, and hope that they will become a new home for the reunited Vanilla community. We will continue collaborating closely with them. This collaboration could include additional 'things' to share with them if necessary to achieve this goal. In exchange, this server promised to not receive any profit from this activity," he said.

While this may be good news to some, Blizzard recently announced that "World of Warcraft" won't be remastered for their first and second versions. According to Windows Report, the topic was raised by a gamer to the company's co-founder Frank Pearce during BlizzCon 2016. Despite having great successes in the past months, Blizzard seem to be not very open with the idea. "We are fortunate enough to have all of the original source code and assets to everything we've done in the past. But actually, it turns out, it's really hard to access that stuff, unlock it, and figure out how it all works. Because we're old, we've forgotten," Pearce admitted.