Vanilla World of Warcraft Servers Are Officially Coming

World of Warcraft is going back to the good ol' days. Yes, we really mean it! Today during the opening ceremony for BlizzCon, it was revealed that a World of Warcraft Classic, or 'vanilla,' server is currently in the works, and will be rolling out at a later date. We got a brand new trailer to celebrate, and you're going to want to see this. Check it out above.

Fans have been crying out for the original World of Warcraft experience for a long time now, and there have been a few player-made and player-maintained vanilla servers over the years, but sadly, they have all been shut down. Blizzard promises that this new project will shine with Blizzard quality, though, so I think we can expect big things.

"This is something that we have just continued to hear from the community," executive producer J. Allen Brack said in a statement to PC Gamer. "This is something that we've continued to hear from current players, from former players, from people who work on World of Warcraft, even people working at Blizzard who are like, hey, you should find a way."

He admitted on stage that this would be a huge undertaking for the team. This requires much more than "opening a server" since the base World of Warcraft experience is so radically different than what we have now, several expansions later.

"The original problem was that we would have to run two MMOs," Brack said. "We would have to run Classic WoW, and then current WoW [at the same time]. Classic WoW and current WoW really don't work the same way any more. Classic WoW has all kinds of bugs and problems, it has all kinds of exploits and hacks that everyone knows about. And in current WoW, we'd done an excellent job of reducing all of those problems, and we didn't see how we could possibly run two MMOs like this."

It sounds like Blizzard has found a way to get the classic servers running on their new infrastructure, though, but we have no idea when they will be up and running. We imagine it's still going to be a very complicated process, and we have to wonder if any quality of life improvements are going to be added, or if they're going to leave it completely bare. As soon as we learn more, we'll let you know straight away.