WoW emulator?

[Amphitryon]

Originally Posted by Duma [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I've played on a few WoW private servers over the last couple years and they are all mostly a waste of time and should be shut down.

99% of them are blatant profiteering criminals selling donor gear and pocketing all the funds.

All the major cores developer teams seem only interested in getting their core updated to whatever is current on Blizzlive. Things from Vanilla and TBC that have been broke for years are still broke because they have moved on with no intent of ever making it work.

And yeah the communities. Worse than live.

I beg to differ when it comes to the technical aspects of the core groups. I have run a WoW Manggos/UDB server for quite some time for friends and family, and have found that updates to features and to content, including bug fixes come in a steady stream.

UDB updates their database project with a patch on a monthly basis, and every DB patch has even more data filled in, more quest fixes, more incomplete content, completed.

In Fact as far as the MANGOS team is concerned, getting 'Cataclysm' working is not a driving force (in fact they shut down all 'When is Cataclysm going to be supported' threads.) They are centered on stability, not features. In that regards, its important to not mistake WoW-Repack distributors with the core teams, as the repack makers are the ones that load up on kludges, and other half-baked schemes to operate 'fun servers'.

Its true, there are for-profit operators out there, though they don't concern me, as frankly if someone wanted to, they could do the same thing with EQEmu and there is not a thing to do about it other than just do not use their servers. In fact there may be some, who knows?

Now, as someone who has been running and tinkering with their own collection of MMO emulators, I have found it quite easy to make a WoW emulator using MANGOS/UDB just as 'hardcore' as EQ classic.

That being said, is anyone actually interested in playing a version of WoW that is just as challenging as classic EQ? My guess is no, but I do know how to make it happen.