And based on that, there is another matter being overlooked regarding the Bliz take down of such game servers. WoW isn't the only game they have. People playing on those emu servers are not spending that time/money playing Bliz games which bring them in more money.
Consider this, you know all the uproar and mass exodus of players from wow (last year?)? Many of those players went on to play other Bliz games, and Bliz actually had a record year even though they lost millions of active wow accounts.
Nost is a threat to players choosing other Bliz games that are being marketed. It's less of an issue whether or not they like WoW as they present it, but that they stick to Bliz games in which Bliz still makes considerable money from. Nost represents a significant amount of people that can be playing other Bliz games, be the income by subscription, box costs or micro transactions.
So really it's not just something about which era or version of WoW is superior, but that there is a potential revenue being lost as dissatisfied players spend time elsewhere rather than buying other Bliz games. By closing such emu's down, many of those players will return to the Bliz selection of games surely as had happened last year when they lost a large portion of their wow subscription player base.
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