Blizzard is making official Vanilla World of Warcraft servers. That is a sentence that, a year ago, I never thought I’d ever write. With the eruptive rise and fall of private Vanilla servers and Blizzard’s continuing dismissal of the subject as out of reach, it seemed like a dream that would never come true. But moments ago, during the opening ceremonies of Blizzcon 2017, it was announced. Last week I sat down with Blizzard's senior vice president and executive producer, J. Allen Brack, to learn everything about the long journey to this moment. Blizzard isn’t talking about the specifics of how or when, but I still had a million other questions to ask. The biggest one was, after years of Vanilla World of Warcraft being such a hot topic, why now?

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