If Blizz was smart, they’d approach the people, hire them to maintain the server properly, and demand the users pay $5-10/month for the vanilla experience all neatly packaged up for them. You’ve got a user base now exploit them. Sure there will be people that leave, but there may also be more people that join. And…

Only if those transactions are cancelled. Most people will simply perform their business at a later date. If Chase gets hit with a DDoS for 10hours, I’m not going to up and pull all my money out or not pay my bills. Certainly in the world of high-frequency trading I can imagine it costing people a fortune (but then…

They’d direct their anger better by simply not paying blizzard $15/month anymore, rather than screwing over people who still want to play. As for shutting down the Vanilla server, it’s Blizz/Activision’s IP and they’re free to defend it as they see fit. You have no right to Blizzard’s game. Again...vote with your…