Wow. Talk about apples and... I don't know, airplanes.
Where to begin? Ok, let's begin with why your comparison is ridiculous: You're comparing a kid with candy, candy that wasn't made by the kid, candy that wasn't created by the kid, candy that wasn't trademarked and copyrighted by the kid.... to Blizzard and WoW. A game that was made by Blizzard, created by Blizzard, trademarked and copyrighted by Blizzard. Then, you compare a physical object (candy) to a virtual object (WoW). Then you compare a kid making the candy from scratch, to criminals who took a finished product and just altered it to fit their illegal server.
Seriously, your comparison fails in so many levels that it's not even funny.
People are still confusing the shut down of a private server to the advocacy of a Blizzard sanctioned legacy server. I'm not sure why, but the discussion goes in circles. The want for a legacy server is not related to the shut down of a private server, either, as discussion has been around for that for years, but only recently picked up a lot of responses and sparked a lot of discussions.
A crossfitter, a vegan, an atheist, and a vanilla WoW player all walked into a bar. I know because they all told me within 3 minutes.
World of Warcraft: Dying on MMO Champion since 2004
Pre-Alpha WoW tester since 2002.
Right I'm not dealing in absolutes, I'm just saying that some/few/many fall into various categories of why they'd go to a private server. I get that people want to experience Vanilla as well but sometimes you just have to accept a company's choice not to do something. That didn't stop some people and they did it anyways and now they got shut down.
Another thing to look at, by trying to change Blizzard's mind about Vanilla servers is that maybe by flocking to illegal servers it might just make Blizzard even more opposed to the idea. Because if Blizz does something with Vanilla-classic people don't like they'll just flock to private servers. Once vanilla servers become a 'thing' people will want more and more. I don't want to see that can of worms opened. It will be a train wreck.
Despite your smugness, a private server is not an emulator. In this case, the server pulls certain files from the stolen client which is under blizzard's copyright.
Guess what doesn't change between DMCA and Australian copyright law.
Quit being patronizing and start living in the real world. If you want to debate me on how a server and client works, I'll take you to school.
If it were just me that I was talking about, then yes. No matter how much you wanna inflate the amount of players currently subscribed and make that of those wanting to play vanilla seem lower, the fact is that there is a legitimate desire for people to play vanilla and the logistics and resources to create something like this pale in comparison to pretty much any major addition to the game in the past years. You just don't want us to have it because you're arcade players. You don't like it so you don't want anyone to have it.
Imagine this: Blizzard allows Vanilla servers to operate because of its outdated content. Then other servers with outdated content happen, like BC, WotLK, hence even Cataclysm and MoP, just because it's outdated. Allowing even one of these servers operate creates a dangerous (for Blizz obv) exception. And keeping up official servers with outdated content seems just to be out of discussion.
S.H.
K vote with your wallet and don't play their games but at the same time do not flock to illegal servers to make some sort of 'point'. I mean if it makes you feel better since I have every store pet/mount/RAF I will cover for you and a bunch of your friends missing by supporting Blizzard.
How dare a company find ways to make money. You act like their goal is to rule the world with their evil schemes or something.