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Originally Posted by Swish
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The world needs a legit, uncorrupted WoW emulator without RMT, pay2win, silly XP rates, boxing, etc attached
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Several years back, I played on one that was hosted here in the USA. It was called Bloodcraft, and it was a Trinity Core emu that started with Burning Crusade and continued with Wrath of the Lich King. It had a humble start of like 15 people and over the course of its 5 year run, it had almost 1400 people logged on at once for a summer stretch.
It had 2 primary and one secondary members of the Trinity Core dev contributer team that called it home, and the whole thing was run for free. No donation gear, no voting gear, x1 rates, ruthless anti hack measures, exceptionally clever DDoS protection (for the time), routine PvP Arena sweeps of cheats / win trade busts... A person couldn't really ask for much more. It ran as a person's hobby and they accepted donations, but it had to be under the table through Pay Pal with every one marked with "gift with no goods or services implied or received."
They got a couple C&D's from Blizzard but they told them to screw off with the reply that it was run with no exchange of money or goods, was run as an Educational purpose exercise, and that all players stated they owned their own purchased client copy of the game. And lastly, the ISP host stood firm when Blizzard put pressure on them and told them to Eff off too, so Blizzard gave up trying. It's the ONLY US hosted WoW server I've seen that was successful with this.
The project ended after 5 years because the host grew bored with the project or possibly just had his fill of the crap and wasn't having fun anymore. A large part of it had to do with the countless, tremendous amount of hours put into bug fixes and script creation made free and public to Trinity Core, which other servers run for profit turned around and used and contribued jack-all in return, not sharing their own work.
I guess the point I'm making with all of this is that Nilbog and friends are goddamned Saints and that sometime down the road, this hobby will come to an eventual end. All great things eventually do.