Project chronicle
From a small server called dragonflight.su in 2022 — through records, sleepless nights and painful failures — to Luntares and World of Warcraft: Midnight in 2026. This is our story, unvarnished.
How it began
We were never a corporation. We're a handful of people who love World of Warcraft too much to simply play it. This chronicle is about how a dream caught fire twice, nearly burned to ash once, and was reborn in the end.
Chronicle
It all started with a handful of enthusiasts and one rented server. We knew almost nothing — except one thing: we were madly in love with this game. First players, first bugs, first sleepless nights. dragonflight.su became our home.
The community grew. We rewrote the core, patched the emulation, argued about balance until dawn. The first traditions appeared, the first server legends, and friends we'd never seen in person.
The project outgrew its old name. dragonflight.su became Luntares — not just a new label, but a new bar to clear. Under that name we took on the hardest update in our history and began preparing The War Within launch. It felt like we were ready for anything.
A day we'll never forget. At The War Within launch, the online count soared to 1500 players at once — our absolute record. Chat drowned in congratulations, the servers groaned under the load, and for the first time we believed we had made it.
The triumph lasted mere hours. That same day, under the record load, the infrastructure collapsed: lag, endless crashes, progress rollbacks. Content bugs we hadn't cleaned up in time piled up one after another. By the night of April 19 not a trace of the euphoria remained — and the players melted away with it. It hurt — and it was our fault.
Instead of shutting down, we stopped and answered honestly: what went wrong. We rewrote the architecture from scratch — a new core, fault tolerance and an obsession with quality in every detail. We stopped chasing hype. We were building a foundation.
After the fall and a long reckoning with our mistakes, Luntares returns — tempered, rethought, ready. World of Warcraft: Midnight, the Void Storm over Quel'Thalas, and a server built to take a hit. We learned the lessons. And this time, everything came out better-built.
What we took away
We don't promise gold mountains. We tell it like it is — even about our own failures. This page is proof of that.
We've grown as developers. The lessons of 2025 leveled up the team — we now write code deeper, cleaner and more experienced than ever before.
Everything we have is you. Every player who stayed after the fall is a reason to keep going.
A new chapter
Midnight over Azeroth is only just arriving. The best time to write your name into the Luntares chronicle is now.
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