WoW emulator?

[mimixownzall]

McBard be regulatin...

[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.

[Ihealyou]

I don't get why everyone who plays EQ hates on WoW by calling it easy. If anything, combat in WoW is more difficult than in EQ. In WoW, you have lots of abilities to use, most of which have short recast timers, you have to move around to dodge AEs and special attacks, there's scripted events, etc. In EQ, you hit auto attack and maybe cast a couple of spells. EQ is more hardcore and frustrating, but if spending hours to see any noticable progress makes a game difficult, watching paint dry is the hardest game ever invented.

That being said, WoW sucks due to the numerous 13 year olds who play and the complete lack of any community.

[Bruno]

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

I don't get why everyone who plays EQ hates on WoW by calling it easy. If anything, combat in WoW is more difficult than in EQ. In WoW, you have lots of abilities to use, most of which have short recast timers, you have to move around to dodge AEs and special attacks, there's scripted events, etc. In EQ, you hit auto attack and maybe cast a couple of spells. EQ is more hardcore and frustrating, but if spending hours to see any noticable progress makes a game difficult, watching paint dry is the hardest game ever invented.

That being said, WoW sucks due to the numerous 13 year olds who play and the complete lack of any community.

Imagine if some of the healers on p99 had to heal a heroic wow raid as lets say a shaman? Maybe they wouldn't cry they had to press 2 buttons every 15 seconds. That should be a prerequisite or something.

[Rogean]

Why is this in server chat?

[naez]

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

working just fine. Waiting for more excitement.

well at least you finally posted this garbage in a thread where it semi- makes sense

[Lelroni]

I've actually been looking for a 'classic'/vanilla WoW emu server but never found one ;(. I enjoyed early WoW.

[Daywolf]

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

I've actually been looking for a 'classic'/vanilla WoW emu server but never found one ;(. I enjoyed early WoW.

There isn't one. It crossed my mind too, wanted to see if people were running one since vanilla got a lot of praise by the people that condemn the later releases (seems more legit, you know?). Looked for days, not a vanilla wow server to be seen. Probably too hard to put that together, if there were drastic client changes between vanilla and current versions. Could take yyyyears to do that, and client modifications, meaning it's probably a lot easier to just copy an existing emu and cash cow in on it like all the other wow emu servers seem to be doing [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]