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<br> <br><p>One of the most popular private World of Warcraft vanilla servers is shutting down after receiving a cease and desist from Blizzard.</p><br><br> <br><br><br><br> <br><p>World of Warcraft may be headed for its sixth expansion, but there are a lot of players who yearn for the days of the game as it was at launch, known as “vanilla” WoW.Since Blizzard doesn’t offer an option to play on these types of servers, pirated versions of the vanilla servers often show up.</p><br><br> <br><br><br><br> <br><p>One of the most popular of these servers was Nostalrius Begins, a private server run by a group of volunteers. The group has 800,000 registered users and over 150,000 active users, according to their own statements.</p><br><br> <br><br><br><br> <br><p>The Nostalrius servers offered players a chance to play WoW as it was in the the beginning, and the team behind it was in the process of adding progression just as the original game did