Originally Posted by
greysaber
So this guy, 'Gummy', had been developing the most perfectly scripted and blizzlike TBC server in the history of private servers. He spent 5 years of his time, developed his own emulation core, and swore to never take one cent of money for it. Nearly 40,000 accounts were created before it went live today (he had to shut down new account creation because of the flood of players). At one point, he put up a 2nd server to handle the overflow, which quickly hit cap and developed a queue of thousands; the first server hit queues within seconds, at one point it had a 5k queue each on both horde and alliance. Within 5 hours Blizzard hand delivered a cease and desist letter, to Gummy's residence (apparently they were just waiting for the much hyped and anticipated launch).
40,000 accounts.
Blizzard is really missing out on a decent sum of cash by not hosting legacy servers. Hell, they could probably just rerelease the game, starting at the beginning, and would probably get a million new subs.