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Posted by Brajeshwar 4 days ago

Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction(www.pcgamer.com)
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svag 4 days ago|
There are 2 Tutle WoW forum posts worth sharing

* Open Letter to Blizzard Entertainment - https://forum.turtlecraft.gg/viewtopic.php?t=22444&sid=72e3e...

* A Journey's End - https://forum.turtlecraft.gg/viewtopic.php?t=24891&sid=72e3e...

wolvesechoes 4 days ago||
Sad news, but expected.

I tried Twow, and the experience blew me away. Awesome community, TONS of new content that not only expanded the endgame, but the leveling experience as well (I don't have time for raiding, so I really appreciated what they did with new quests, new zones etc.) True Classic+ experience that Blizzard will never match, because if they could, they would already.

arctics 4 days ago||
hobbyist server turned commercial enterprise, according to court documents Blizzard claims AFKCraft Ltd. (Turtle WoW) made millions of dollars over 2018–2026 period.
hhh 4 days ago||
Positioning for the Classic+ announcement in November.
icar 4 days ago||
I know I will be flagged, and it doesn't add anything of value to the conversation, but: From every single private server WoW player out there, a sincerely Fuck You Blizzard is in place. This sentiment is shared among all of us, and it's been there for decades. Keep shutting us down, more will come.
yard2010 4 days ago||
Ha facebbok can happily torrent every book written in the history while I can't have fun playing a private server. Copyright laws are just another way of herding the sheep.
linuxftw 3 days ago||
Why not just create a WoW-like game that doesn't infringe on the IP? Surely there are enough people following the project that at some point, they could have pivoted into a wholly unique IP.
izzydata 3 days ago||
I was extremely skeptical that Blizzard would bother with something like Classic Vanilla+ where they add additional content to Vanilla Azeroth, but now it seems like a real possibility.
ionwake 4 days ago||
I find it almost comic how large companies make terrible decisions.

I dont need to have played Turtle Wow to know how bad this looks for optics.

Game company with lots of money tries to take money of a few people who are make a mod for their game, breaking it in the process.

It doesn't matter how you try to spin this, "ACHTUALLY Blizzard has the right..." etc

Its almost like some MSC Business intern started the meetings and they took this course of action without thinking much about it.

p0w3n3d 4 days ago|
I'd say it's this 'constant growth' coercion, and 'optimise without measure' thing.

We must report another 10% growth so we find that some guys are playing for free (it's 20k of them). We write in excel the newly found "amount of freebies", then make a plan and show on a Powerpoint presentation, that this 20k players (the number 100% we're certain about - or at least we're trying to lie to ourselves that it is certain) will join our server which gives 260k usd a month. Nobody can prove we're wrong, so we pay 260k for lawyers and poof - there goes the 'pirate' server.

Next year we'll find another way, but for now, just drink and dance.

ionwake 2 days ago||
good insight thanks
time4tea 4 days ago|
So hard to read that article, with all the pop ups, scroll hijacks, and back button grabbing (soon to be illegal)

Why do they try to hide actual content with hateful tech?

Anyhow, no way I would give that company money.

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