After being shutdown earlier in the year, vanilla WoW PvP and PvE servers 'Nostalrius' will return December 17. The news comes after a recent stress-test that saw an impressive 10,000 concurrent players role-playing like it was the year 2004. After the recent shutdown a large vocal community displayed their support for Nostalrius, so much so that the team were invited over to Blizzard HQ where they spent considerable time talking to the veteran developer.

And with no word from Blizzard officially providing vanilla pre-expansion WoW servers, services like Nostalrius appeal to a very vocal fan-base.



In fact, after there was no new information about the matter at BlizzCon 2016, the Nostalrius team handed over their code and database to Elysium -- hence the new launch date.