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Originally posted by thegeoman

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Originally posted by Krogan

I'd suspect that all the owners of these servers will end up having to pay 4 years worth of subs for an entire server to blizzard as damages.
And this is just one server provider but blizzard is going after all of them hard. If you own a private server expect to pay a few million to Blizzard.

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I am skeptical that any private server has millions. I can see them making thousands, but no more than this.

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You are right, some may have nothing at all, but that doesn't stop Blizzard from asking for the lost revenue from the private server founders. Of course the biggest problem with going down that road is that they would have to prove that the users of the private servers would have actually paid a sub if the private servers were not available, which is gonna be pretty damned difficult to prove. It will be much easier to claim damages for breach of copyright and theft of intellectual property from the guys that set up the private servers.

 I've had more fun on private servers than i ever did on the live game. but even as a f2p game wow is still bad.

 In all fairness, it's not stealing. I mean: NO; I wouldn't steal a car, but I would sure copy it if I could. Though, I still agree that setting up big, private servers might hurt the industry. 

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Originally posted by A_N_T_I
 In all fairness, it's not stealing. I mean: NO; I wouldn't steal a car, but I would sure copy it if I could. Though, I still agree that setting up big, private servers might hurt the industry. 

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In all fairness, it IS stealing!

It's like a thief telling the police that he just 'borrowed' the car he took, which ever way you colour it, it is stealing.

Did you code the game - NO

Did you come up with all of the original artwork and ideas - NO

Did you pay for the marketing and production - NO

So is it your property - NO

So with that in mind, knowing that it is not your property, at which point does it make it ok to take it or 'copy' it if you will?

Just because it is code on a machine it doesn't make it any less someone else's property that is being stolen. A grocer will keep his produce out in front of his store, it is in easy reach and not being watched over most of the time, but we don't steal that either do we because it is someone else's property and we know we have to pay for it if we want it.

Originally posted by A_N_T_I

 In all fairness, it's not stealing. I mean: NO; I wouldn't steal a car, but I would sure copy it if I could. Though, I still agree that setting up big, private servers might hurt the industry. 

If you could copy a car, it would be illegal to do it.

Originally posted by uniushi

belive it or not , i don't care if people know my name

im nto giving out the details of how many people ive had on any of the private server ive ever made used or created in any order

and im a horrible speller

i make them for fun

i don't ask for donations

and i don't sell ingame items / money /right"@-#-$" comands

i don't ask for mney for people too be my GM's

and on top of all that

I DO ASK FOR SOMETHING

i ask for my people

on MY server

too have fun

without being constantly bothered by advertising bot

hackers

gold selling spammers

or general a$$h0I3Z

i make the envirment clean

and i do not put virus's in clients

i make them so i can plainly see how people who enjoy my server compared too the idiots the realy own the game

and 9/10 times the servers i make have

#1 LESS LAGG

#2 LESS IDIOTS/ ^@$#^*#@

#3 ITS FREE

#4 NO VIRUS 10/10

#5 ITS THE SAME GOD DANG GAME NOTHIGN HAS CHANGED 

you know what the best part is

i agree with you

shuting down servers would help too generaly industry this is why i don't host them anymore

but do you know the general reason people make them?

BECUASE THEY BOARD

MAD
HAT E THE GREEDY OWNERS

if your going to make 15 exspantions DO ASK the users too buy them all how much is that

ima round it off

lets say 20$ per XS xspantion set

and you make 15

and the game it self cost 60 in the very begining

hmm thats 360$ for a single game

and none of the sh*t you get in those XS give you the ability to get father they do the exsact oposite they make the game longer and make you even more of a nub

people dont want to always continue spnding 100$'s of $ on a game they want to pay for it once a month or play a game that does not have hackers or has a good GM team that REALY BANS THEM

and i don't mean just a temp ban

i mean AUTO BAN PERM foreven

name banning

mine is joshua arbuckle

theyd have to ban joshua arbuckle

my address

my phone number

my IP

and lastly my comp ID

it would cost more to go around these things then it would to just pay for the game

but do they stop the hackers no

becuase to them

this is a reason and on goignreason to say

o were doing the best we can

when we honestly know for a fact that if they wanted to stop this crap

they could but then theyd have nothign to do

ill pay 10 20 or even 30 a month for a REALY good mmo game that isnt boaing

but when you ahve add bots and hackers

site spammers

and crap that gets too you on a dayly basis you turn to private server

why?

becuase the normal EXP rate s a bit higher for the low rates

maing it a BIT easyer to get allt he stuff you left behind back

and there are NO AD SPAMMERS

no HACKERs

no PRICKS

and no LAGG

4 of the main reasons people quit are solve by moving

if you want people to take you seriously and actually read this, LEARN TO SPELL YOU F'N RETARD! and

dont

type

like

this