Mike Morhaime meets with Nostalrius representative Mark Kern

Aloha! Nostalrius representative Mark Kern shares his very positive assessment of his meeting with Blizzard President and Co-Founder Mike Morhaime and Saralyn Smith, Global Director of Community Development.

Mike Morhaime meets with Nostalrius representative Mark Kern

Mark Kern, the leading spokesman for the private servers movement in the vanilla version, met with Blizzard president and co-founder Mike Morhaime to discuss it. This meeting takes place before the meeting between the Nostalrius team and Blizzard scheduled for some time in early June. While there is no firm data from the meeting, Mark Kern commented that he felt it was a positive step forward, ensuring the chances of the move being successful and that he was impressed with Mike Morhaime's willingness.

Mark Kern is a former Blizzard employee, was a producer on Diablo 2, StarCraft, and Warcraft III, as well as a World of Warcraft leadership team leader. He left in 2005 to help reunite Firefall at Red 5 Studios, he is currently working on a space RPG, Crixa. He has also been a major user of various online communities and movements in the last decade, including the League for Gamers, an advocacy group in response to the law to stop online piracy.

In a series of tweets these days, Kern said she met with Morhaime and Saralyn Smith, Global Director of Community Development. He says that they had full knowledge on this matter as to what he wanted to achieve, paying great attention. A number of hot topics were discussed, including the new gaming habits of WoW fans these days, what players are looking for on vanilla servers, such as the smallest possible changes, and how the community would be willing to pay for it. it.

On Morhaime's side, he himself had read a lot of messages and watched a lot of videos on the subject, according to Kern he was very on the subject. He stressed that there are no easy solutions, even though Blizzard still has the source code for the vanilla version of the game. As Kern says "this challenge is greater than just launching a server."

Kern concluded his assessment of the meeting by saying that Blizzard would not make any kind of promises but that they are open to any kind of dialogue and meetings with the vanilla communities.. He then answered some questions from his followers, and has published a photo as proof of the meeting, as well as the sense of humor of the two men.