{"id":89141,"date":"2016-04-18T15:29:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T13:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=89141"},"modified":"2016-04-18T15:30:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T13:30:15","slug":"watch-the-moment-a-game-world-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/89141-watch-the-moment-a-game-world-died","title":{"rendered":"Watch the moment a game world died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of players gathered online to say goodbye to a pirated World of Warcraft server called Nostalrius.<\/p>\n<p>The two servers hosting the pirated version closed down on 10 April 2016 following sustained pressure by Blizzard.<\/p>\n<p>Nostalrius primarily focused on a &#8220;vanilla&#8221; World of Warcraft experience, with none of the game&#8217;s expansions included.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2016-04-12-watch-the-final-moments-of-packed-pirate-world-of-warcraft-servers-nostalrius\" target=\"_blank\">team <\/a><\/strong>behind Nostalrius believed that over 800,000 people had registered to play on the servers and that of those, 150,000 were active.<\/p>\n<p>A <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/More gaming news Takealot\u2019s Unboxed Deals could mean cheaper games Gunsmith under fire for real Nintendo handgun The biggest movie releases this week\" target=\"_blank\">petition<\/a><\/strong> with over 80,000 signatures attached had been handed to Blizzard in the hopes it would keep the server open and change its stance on legacy servers.<\/p>\n<p>The Nostalrius source code has been made available to the public, so expect news of similar pirated servers in the future.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M9fq3mNMCMk\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7s2lq7QXDQo\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Takealot\u2019s Unboxed Deals could mean cheaper games\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/88331-takealots-unboxed-deals-could-mean-cheaper-games.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Takealot\u2019s Unboxed Deals could mean cheaper games<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Gunsmith under fire for real Nintendo handgun\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/88953-gunsmith-under-fire-for-real-nintendo-handgun.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Gunsmith under fire for real Nintendo handgun<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The best rugby games of all time\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/89119-the-best-rugby-games-of-all-time.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The best rugby games of all time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of players gathered online to say goodbye to a pirated World of Warcraft server called Nostalrius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":89143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[665,469,18099,9065,635],"class_list":["post-89141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-blizzard","tag-mmo","tag-nostalrius","tag-pirate","tag-world-of-warcraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89683,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89141\/revisions\/89683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}