um ok, so you think they could just drop the old code in BOOM we have servers?
But no, they did not lose anything,lol.
If you would properly read a dev water cooler where they state they have proper backups then you wouldnât post such things.
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This isnât really how it works. Iâm going to have to assume you have no experience with coding. Personally, Iâve only dabbled in it for fun⌠But code gets old, operating systems and hardware advance and change⌠Things donât just stay in the same state always ready to play.
There are a lot of older games that just donât run on newer operating systems anymore, or run very poorly or take a lot of fiddling with.
Regardless of all of that - running 15 year old code on 15 year old hardware just wouldnât happen. At some point, even if theyâd never created an expansion, the code would have changed and morphed, the server hardware and software would have been upgraded and youâd still have a very different looking system behind the scenes, even if to the user it looked exactly the same. Hardware gets old, things need to be upgraded to handle more players, more things going on in game⌠Software becomes old and people find holes in it to exploit, so it needs to be upgraded and fixedâŚ
I would suggest googling around a bit on why what youâre expecting isnât realistic, because there are some videos and blogs that really explain it quite well.
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Thatâs not what they said when nos offered to help get them running classic again.
yes they told them they did not lose the code,lol.
No they said that they didnât have the old code for it anymore and it was un recoverable.
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this is what i remember them saying
You didnât get a quote from Blizzard saying they lost the code. You heard a rumor on the internet.
Huge differnce
um no, they did not say that, they were asked if they had lost the code and Blizzard told them no.
Yeah I actually tried to find the quote of Blizzard saying they lost the code because it was something people included in the wall of no for years, but I canât find anything from Blizzard saying it.
It seems to just be something somebody made up at one point, and people believed them.
No they were asked if they actually had the code and bliz said no
check the watercooler posts
If you take the statement in full context. They code could not be run on their modern infrastructure in itâs outdated state. AKA unrecoverable.
This entire project is recovering it.
Very different than âthey lost the codeâ
lol incorrect, you have a quote I assume?
Feel free to source your statement then.
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Before expansions were announced, there were content patches. âExpansionsâ turned out to be vertical entities that rendered vanilla endgame content optional to progress past.
Youâre deflecting. If people were paying for the game then, even BEFORE big content patches like Naxx or AQ, it was still a mostly static game, and Blizzard has to pay their employees.
So forums should be nice little echo chambers?
Iâm noticing a disturbing trend with your posts. Instead of listening to what people are trying to tell you, you keep trying to argue back with them, even if what youâre saying isnât true.
I suggest you stop being so defensive and try to listen to what weâre all telling you. Google things like âwhy canât blizzard use old code for classicâ and try reading some articles on various sites from the last few years.
This entire conversation is very unproductive, though, because youâre not actively engaging in the conversation, youâre just ignoring the points and continuously arguing with fallacies.
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That fact anyone is still arguing with this guy is astounding in its self. This whole thread has been about Iron not wanting to pay a sub fee lol.
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