"There is a pervasive myth that making content hard will induce players to rise to the occasion. We find the opposite. " -- Ghostcrawler
"The bit about hardcore players not always caring about the long term interests of the game is spot on." -- Ghostcrawler
"Do you want a game with no casuals so about 500 players?"
It's seemed pretty mixed to me. I don't "hate" them, but I think they're dishonest and I'm not sorry they're being shut down.
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I can assure you that any developer who puts THAT MUCH work into something, they just want their work to go to good use. its going to be on github for crying out loud.
granted, at the same time... i want to say "WELL BLIZZ CANT BS ABOUT THE CODE MISSING NOW", but that's not what they did.
not to mention... they explicitly said "assuming we don't receive further communication from blizzard". That's not spiteful.
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lol no i am not a Trumpus fan.
those infractions you described would have been committed by the client users. not the server.
"...money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it."
To be fair, private server players often view retail players as some sort of disgusting inferior human for preferring to play live.
The funniest thing here is you keep acting like your civil rights were raped by evil megacorporation, you keep piling ridiculous fallacies ontop of each other, you keep gaming words (not only you you, but this whole private servers "community" people who are spilling tears, salt and shit for third day in a row over MMO-C forums)... while the reality is very simple: illegal stuff is illegal, no matter what. Just like that. If your country bans drugs, make them illegal, should I feel empathy for drug dealers because they delivered drugs to people who find fun in using drugs? Nope. "But OMG, seriously guys, you can't even imagine how many hours those dealers put in their little drug dealing project - and they even made it their second job!!" So what? Illegal is illegal. That's all that matters.
I'd like to ask, though - why do you care about our opinions, opinions of retail players?
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No more time wasted in WoW.. still reading this awesome forum, though
The Nost apologists make it sound as though mean retail people have tracked them down to their private little forums to harass and abuse them and kick them while they're down.
In reality, the apologists have stormed onto the official forums as well as here and elsewhere, made a big public display, gotten pushback for it, and acted like the regular posters who have been here much longer are in the wrong.
Well first off it is spiteful of them to release the code, because if they truly cared about making a difference they would of kept it under wraps and just told people to go to Blizzard to protest for legacy servers, or at the very least just release the code to the private server community, not the community at large. Also this is not the magical code that Blizzard was missing, in fact it most likely would not work for their hardware at all.
Because they feel better about themselves since they pay for the game. They feel the need to degrade those who play on the private servers to feel better about themselves.
well.. there's a reason for that. anyone who supported the legacy server topic has sorta been the whipping boy of wow since cata, and simply because they were an easy target.
For example - Nostalgia. Blizzard started it. wow forums propagated it.
I cannot express how angry it makes me to hear someone spread that bs.
Its not nostalgia. I genuinely think pre-cata wow was a superior game.
I have my merits, and im sure others have theirs as to why its not. point is, your/my opinion of the game is subjective. When you say the primary motive is nostalgia, you're passively affirming that wow today is objectively better than pre-cata wow. which... completely dismisses the oppositions opinion on a subjective topic.
As someone whos been on the receiving end of the above for years, ITS SOOO INFURIATING.
and once it started, it just kept going....
"mobs in the open world dont hit hard" - NOSTALGIA
"I hate these talents" - NOSTALGIA
"an in game cash shop" - NOSTALGIA
"flying" - NOSTALGIA
"lore" - NOSTALGIA
"legion looks like shit" - AFRAID OF CHANGE
I mean.. the list goes on and on.
Those people finally find a place where they can play the game the actually enjoy (instead of half-settling for live) and it gets ripped down...
meanwhile people on official be like "AAAAHAHAHAHAHAA DIE YOU SCUM OF THE EARTH EVIL TERRORIST".
its a lot of stuff coming to a head.