I've been investing a good amount of time in --- snip --- WoW (--- snip --- can barely even be called WoW anymore, it's brought more new features and content than last 4 expansions combined, it's practically a new MMO).
Am I at risk of losing all that time if actiblizz just decides to flip the switch?
There seem to be a lot of private WoW servers atm, and none of them getting closed anymore.
Does Blizz allow them to live because they feel it's free advertisement for retail WoW?
Personally I disagree, until WoW goes buy2play only or free2play, I don't see myself ever doing anything else related to it other than watching the story cutscenes online.