Nostalrius weathers stampedes and DDoS attacks to begin World of Warcraft all over ag

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It happened: Nostalrius has begun all over again, reopening on Saturday having been shut down by Blizzard earlier this year.
There were teething issues as people poured in, the transplanted Nostalrius PvE and PvP servers - on which people's saved characters were resurrected - buckling under the strain. The Elysium team now in charge of the service capped concurrent player numbers at around 5000 meaning queues to play were common.
There were even reported DDoS attacks that took the servers down, causing all kinds of problems.
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