IMO private servers for any game is kinda retarded. I mean sure its free but like thats not the way the game was meant to be played. I know how wow can be very expensive, but the creators spent a lot of time creating the game. I believe that if people play the game and are true fans they would play on the normal servers to keep supporting their game and help make future games even better with that support. I have been playing wow for about 3 years and I tell you it has been a fun experience, right now im currently leveling my last character in the series to level 70. Once i get full epic gear im going to sell the account for around $800 dollars. I'm not gonna lie though, its a very addicting game and it does take up a lot of your time to play. I still have a social life though so its good to play wow every now and then. But after I sell my account it will be good to get away from it. What I really cant wait for now is Age of Conan and Left 4 Dead, those are some of my most anticipated games of 2008.

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It all depends on what kind of gaming experience you are looking for. Everyone's opinion is different when it comes to private servers.



Blizz had plenty of money with the millions that play it right now not to mention the continuous others that play their non online games. I do not think that they are in any near danger of floundering financially. Also it is not like the private servers don't have a lot of money sunk into what they provide to others for free.

I myself am a GM/Forum Administrator and Webmaster on the private server that I help run. We script what needs to be scripted and fix what needs to be fixed when it comes to bugs.

I tell you I have a lot more fun on a close knit private server than I do on retail. But that is my opinion and preference.

This is where I play and GM at: http://www.rebirthofdeceivedrealm.com

 

 

 

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I never really liked World of Warcraft...I mean I played it for a while and all, but I had issues with it.

1)Too many children play it

2)The graphics look like they're from a cartoon

3)I didn't really feel like it was open ended enough

4)I hated how there were no real penalties for dying.

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played it for a *very short* while
World Of Warcraft

Replying to rpgsearcherz

1)Too many children play it
> Play at night.
2)The graphics look like they're from a cartoon
> Cartoon style graphics are actually the most popular.
3)I didn't really feel like it was open ended enough
> So I suppose you mastered every class, every instance, every trade, etc..
4)I hated how there were no real penalties for dying.
> Except the time spent running to your corpse, the repair bills and the price of new food buffs and elixirs.

-reply by Nitpicker

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Havent played on a private server yet. Well I had played on the official test servers on Horde and Alliance toons (eg Free S3 Arena gear ftw and people go into BGs/Arena since its a official designated test server for any future patches), yet I have to agree that people running around in T5 and T6 gear on private servers bought off a vendor sounds kinda 'noobish'.

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Naughty naughty
...don't you know that private servers on World of Warcraft is illegal.
To each his (or her) own, I guess.

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I have to agree with the responses saying that they are mostly a waste of space. I've played on numerous private servers ( WoWscape mainly ) and have even hosted a few on my LAN. I'm currently playing on a WoTLK alpha server just to see all the new gadgets.

The game is completely bugged on the private servers however. Very few quests work, and even when they do you have to deal with NPC's bugging out and instable servers. Also having to worry about doing a quest only for it to be broken sucks.

Quest : Kill 10 wolves and bring me back their liver.
Played : I killed 200 wolves to finally get ten wolf livers.
Quest : I'm sorry this quest is out of order.
Player : WTF

Also having to worry about if the server is still going to be there in a day is kinda scary. =/

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Private servers for wow sucks alot go play official
im curently playin my Hunter lvl 70 (MM/SV draining spec for arenas) on Chromaggus realm (EU)
but geting bored hoepfully WOTLK brings back some WOrld PVP

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Private Server
World Of Warcraft

Replying to KainRacure

Hi! I am very interested in joining your private server! Please email me with the website.

But if it is a small community, I won't be able to do any fun stuff like BG or get help with quests etc will I?

Do people play battlegrounds?

-reply by Daniel Poole

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Let me warn you. Alphawow has a big problem with the GMs’ on their site. They are banning people while they are at work, on vacation or offline, banning players from the forum, or deleting posts on anyone that says anything they disagree with on or about this topic as well as other topics. There is one particular GM that is the main person committing the majority of these actions that is know about at this point for sure, his name is Rourke, he will ban anyone for his own humor. The main GMs’ do not ask for screenshots or video of bans. If Rourke or any other GM chooses to ban you "no matter if your online or not" than are not asked for any proof of any kind at any time.

There are confirmed reports of people being banned for being Nazi's as well as, talking too much in world chat, asking too many questions to the GMs', posting too much in the forum, posting too many times on a tread, GM's not likening players names so they login with their own accounts and spawn camp until the player he or she leaves the game, players being friends with GMs’ and asking GMs' to ban people because they win in Arenas too much or they dislike the player for some unknown reason, massive server crashes for hours, days, weeks and months for reasons that are unclear to admins’ or players, these are just a few of the “confirmed” reports.

Most of these reports get deleted by the acting GM's before higher ups can see or read the post in the forums, going so far as to ban players from forum access. None of the higher admins’ check ban totals or reasons at any point for over banning.

It is unclear if Rourke is acting alone or with others, but it seems to be a trend on the server by the admins’ to ignore players, ban players all too often for speed hacking as well as not following their own rules at will, depending upon if your a good friend of theirs or not. One thing that is clear, there is a serious break down of management on this private server. It seems to be run off faith based service techs and general managers that respect only the players that are slave based to them. If you do play on this server your player can be banned at any point for no reason or proof at all and you have no course of action to retrieve it, making all your work for nothing.

If you would like to help change things please make posts to remove Rourke from the admin users by making a post in their forum that is if it is seen before it is deleted. Or at the lease play on another server so you will not too loose your char because of the above non reasons. If you do, do not asking GM questions deal with the server crashes, never ask for help from GM's "you may make one mad and he may ban you months later" as well as staying away from anyone that could ask a GM to ban you because they just do not like being killed by you in tournaments any other non reason for a ban.


I’m the Server Reporter
And that’s the story.

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