"GM Test Realm" avaialble? WTF?!

[Mormolyce]

Maybe it is a GM test realm, maybe they've always had them and one just accidentally wound up being listed?

[Negative]

Really to 100% prove this all you would need to record you opening a fresh realm list file and then start the game from your Wow.exe and I still would be skeptical.

[ATZenith]

What would be the purpose of faking this? He isn't showing anything cool or anything interesting. Just "GM test realm"

[Aeluron Lightsong]

I'm also going to say that the fact Chaud isn't posting this as interesting enough to warrant attention >.>

[zshikara]

Halflife 3 confirmed.

Infracted [ML]

[RoKPaNda]

What would be the purpose of faking this? He isn't showing anything cool or anything interesting. Just "GM test realm"

Pretty much.

I mean would anyone be surprised in the slightest that GMs have realms to test things on? IE Try to duplicate things in-game / fix things that are broken without any chance of actually breaking anything on a realm where players are playing? You think they don't have their own versions of the test realms as well?

No real reason to lie about it, nothing gained. Report as a bug and move on.

[MoanaLisa]

Blizzard actually never said they'd never do classic, TBC etc servers. As for now they're not doing it, and its not on their to do list for the future. Which means they haven't actually said "It's never coming, period" I think. Well I'm hoping someday we'll get to play Classic, TBC and WotLK. Or maybe we wont, only time will tell.

The question was asked at Blizzcon and the answer was a single word: "No"

[slayerbuffy]

With launch from Battle.net client?

I'm not here to say you are using a private server, but only that I have run my oen in the past just to play with it, and the way it works, you can use the launcher to login to a private server.

[Dohm]

The realms were (maybe still are) available to people at Dreamhack.

[DrIvoRobotnik]

Beta inbound?

[Locruid]

Either it's a realm to test the Heirloom Mailing or....

Ghostcrawler left so they need to train a new Lead Designer

[Apom]

Oh man the downfall after Ghostcrawler's dispatch has already began!

[Deleted]

The realms were (maybe still are) available to people at Dreamhack.

PS: eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/gm-test-realm-2/Mmowned/simple

Proof!!!!!!111

[Fakeyoulol1225]

Just for internal use, it is to much for you to know so much

[Gimlix]

WoW subscribers are rising massively again, and new servers are required!

[Inci]

Maybe a glitch ?

[Hottage]

If Warlords of Dreanor is available to test at Dreamhack, they may have put in a VPN to the Blizzard offices to allow connection to the alpha servers.

If this is the case, any IP-filter flagged realms would also appear to anyone whom logged in with their standard account.

[Xe4ro]

My guess is it is an actual realm, but it was typed as 'GM-Test Realm" by mistake. Only way to know for sure is to do a /who or see if you can do anything crazy. lol

You would need a client-side program with admin/service gm stuff. you coudln't do shit without the proper flags on such a realm :P

[Hottage]

This previous topic may be relevant to the current conversation:

http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...elopment-realm

(Don't necro it).

[Deleted]

Why do people care about this so much, it's probably a small glitch it got out and they use for internal testing or gm training perhaps?