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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (9 children)

I can't believe there are still 500 people working on it after all these years. The vast majority of people I know who played (myself included) quit after Cataclysm or thereabouts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

Seems to be chugging along just fine, they really made a gold standard game. They are even smart enough to dip into the nostalgia crowd who liked the older versions better with the classic servers. I honestly wouldnt be surprised if it were still an actively developed game in 10 years

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

They are even smart enough to dip into the nostalgia crowd who liked the older versions better with the classic servers.

Don't give them that much credit. They just started providing a service (finally) that the private servers were providing. People were asking for vanilla servers from them even when BC was live.

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