Classic World of Warcraft Discussion [Megathread]

[Delaios]

All the people saying muh intellectual property please just like you've never illegally streamed ANYTHING or pirated anything

The equivalent here would be someone broadcasting music that they pirated and accepting donations to pay for equipment and upkeep. It's on a whole other level than personal use.

[Nero Duskwind]

Steal? How is it stealing?

They're not taking money for anything, how is this any different than Fair use?

They may not be making money, but they're using Blizzard's IP to host a competing service that is essentially costing them money in the form of lost subs.

[Paula Deen]

Why would we pay real money and a monthly fee to play a steaming pile of shit?

Dude, we're no masochists.

Take your shitposting back to where it belongs. Your arguments have so far been smug pepe posting and ad hominem. Bravo.

[Froggy]

Shameful, Blizzard. I love Vanilla and private servers are the only way I can play it.

Guess I'll wait for the next upcoming Vanilla server. Which I won't mention here, so PM me if you want the site.

[A dot Ham]

not according to the open letter from the nost dev team
https://www.change.org/p/michael-mor...iter=522873458

un...ver...if...iable...

Horse

shit

[Arenis]

Hey guys if you want there is this game called World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor.

[dd614]

I actually started playing live servers thanks to private servers (WoWScape) so this is kind of sad in my opinion. Can't believe some people are actually happy about lots of players literally losing their fun, how much of a smug can some people be? I HOPE someone will host new servers in Croatia or something, and totally shit on the copyright.

Also what the fuck is the deal on calling these players freeloaders? You think you're entitled cause you pay $15 subs or expansions?

What do you expect? Retail is full of toxic players who hate it when others don't enjoy the same things they do.

[taliey]

Exactly.

They have to tell us at every turn just how inferior Retail is and how "no one with good taste could enjoy live" and all that other horseshit, and they're surprised when people aren't crying for them when they bite the dust?

His argument was essentially if it didn't personally affect you/were personally invested in it, you shouldn't have an opinion of it, or even participate in it.

But I do enjoy past iterations of WoW - that's why I participate in nostalgia threads. We can share good memories, but trying to make it into some sort of historical/scientific discussion is the most infuriating part of it.

[High Marshal Sigismund]

Take your shitposting back to where it belongs. Your arguments have so far been smug pepe posting and ad hominem. Bravo.

We get it. You're from 4chan. No one cares.

[Deleted]

Breaking the law is breaking the law, end of story. Stop crying about it. More of this needs to happen, in my opinion.

Sure it is. Doesn't make it right. In my opinion, anyway.

Copyright laws in general are a bad joke. Way too restrictive, way too skewed in favor of big businesses.

[Linkedblade]

They don't steal anything but the client from live from almost a deacade ago. They engineer all systems for the server and they make no profit. Money goes to server maintenance. I really don't see how this is theft of any kind

[Deleted]

Even if blizzard doesn't care about private servers they still have to go after them once in a while because US copyright law requires you to actively defend your copyrights or else you might lose them.

But yeah personally i'm on the side of blizzard should license out private servers or something, let someone else do the work but get some royalties of it, while bypassing the obstacles of needing to integrate it into modern battle.net architecture and providing support. though ofc then people would have to pay for it and the market would probably collapse.

[Santti]

It's their IP. Not surprising at all.

[Bapestar]

Cancelled my legion pre order. Wont be buying overwatch either. Maybe if Blizzard was capable of creating good content, people wouldn't feel the need to turn to Vanilla servers.

[IIamaKing]

I wonder how many would play if those servers would cost 10$ each month...

Vastly fewer I imagine.

[Shadowroxxor]

You blind fanboys defend Blizz like your life depends on it. You probably would have made some fantastic Nazis.

[derpkitteh]

The freeloaders from Nostralius are now pouring onto MMO Champion.

Sad.

judging by what you said earlier, you're the sad one. you're really one of the worst types of people that exist. personification of pettiness.

[Schattenlied]

un...ver...if...iable...

Horse

shit

Given there was anywhere from 7-14k people logged on at all hours of the day, every day, it seems pretty likely to be an accurate number.

[Owlkinn]

Why would we pay real money and a monthly fee to play a steaming pile of shit?

Dude, we're no masochists.

Why would you waste your time posting (2,730 posts) on a forum about a "steaming pile of shit"?

Guess you are the big "steaming pile of shit".

Go to Nostalrius and jerk off to your level 60 character before is too late bro... just go..

[taliey]

Sure it is. Doesn't make it right. In my opinion, anyway.

Copyright laws in general are a bad joke.

Millennials agree with that assertion.