Yeah, I guess I just don't have the patience I once did for private servers. I used to play a lot of them, but usually just made my way back to retail. I guess more than fear of losing my characters, I would say the game wouldn't feel as fresh to me as it once did.. thus losing patience quicker. The only difference is that through all the expansions, I never once got that feeling you felt, because everything was still there, collectibles, achievements, gold, etc. So it wasn't a game breaker for me at least, I was able to adapt and still have fun. I felt this on RS because the changes were just plain bad and it actually took steps away from Runescape, and their numbers paid the price. As much as some people hate the WoW expansions, they never REALLY did anything to destroy their own game. Its numbers are still up there for MMOs if i recall. (Obviously over years the numbers dipped, but never really "sudden")
P.S I'm not putting anyone down for playing Elsyium/Nost, that's just my experience with it.

This post was edited by Bassist on Dec 18 2016 11:00pm

I've had some of the most fun I've had on video games playing their private server counterparts.
ToxicWoW? I enjoyed that way more than the original.

Update: Just started an undead priest. There are over 8,000 people online (PvP realm) and the server seems really stable.
I got tired of waiting around for crates to appear for some quest because every spawn location is being camped by 2-6 people right now.
Will definitely play more tomorrow. Hopefully once I hit level 10 or so the population won't be so dense and questing won't be such a pain.

e: I got the name "Murlocs" somehow. Pretty happy about that.

This post was edited by Vaeflare on Dec 19 2016 12:29am

I like how people say "its a waste of time it will get shut down". the nost realms just got re-booted. and the only reason they waited so long is because they were waiting on blizzard to show their hand at blizzcon. otherwise they could have been reinstated much faster. so anyone who thinks that Nost is getting perm-shut down is an idiot.

What's the point if it's going to continuously get shut down? Do you really think Elysium is going to last more than a few months? If that?
Blizzard can send them a C&D letter tomorrow if they wanted to and there's nothing that can prevent them from doing so.

This post was edited by Bassist on Dec 19 2016 01:21pm

Blizzard did that originally and nost is back..

And how many more times is it going to happen where the game will be unplayable for months at a time?
It's walking with a giant target on it's head.
Though I'll probably end up checking Elysium to screw around on, but only on a fresh start realm. If one of those will ever be launched.. I didn't even like my toon on Nostalrius when I did play for a few hours, lol.

This post was edited by Bassist on Dec 19 2016 02:28pm

Dont see why you continue arguing, yes its a private server and yes it can shut down any minute but all players are aware of that since it is private server
if you dont want to play it dont play it

current wow is fine why bother playing dated crap

The only reason it shut down is cause Nost devs wanted to. From what I read it was in an attempt to get legacy servers, the new nost team won't shut it down this time.