Blizz doesn't give two shits.In the past there have been servers making stupid amounts of money, and Blizzard didn't like this. So they sent some C&D letters, saying stop now or we will sue you.All the servers that got these letters shutdown apart from one (WoWScape) which decided it could avoid it by renaming to ScapeGaming. Blizzard then took them to court, won, and Blizzard were awarded $80 million in damages. Copy of lawsuit: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/110 ... plaint.pdfThis was years go (2009). Since then Blizzard hasn't sent any more C&D letters regarding emulation, and does not do much to make emulation any harder.Botting on the other hand Blizzard is very serious about and actively pursues people.
Blizzard knows very well that communities like private servers or Modcraft/Ownedcore/TrinityCore/others are huge advertisement for WoW, like world editor was for W3. It helps keeping this game alive, even while there is so huge amount of rivals in MMO genre.
Quote from: "Amaroth" Blizzard knows very well that communities like private servers or Modcraft/Ownedcore/TrinityCore/others are huge advertisement for WoW, like world editor was for W3. It helps keeping this game alive, even while there is so huge amount of rivals in MMO genre. Yea I agree, I mean I heard about them suing those that made the first p.server ever back in vanilla and made huge profit what Harry wrote, it was just I've seen this guy post here recently that he's leaving AnthonysToolbox cos he got his paypal closed but I guess it was cos he used other games content and put it into wow. Yea I guess Blizz knows how huge they are and they dont really need to close them anymore
He didn't just get his paypal closed and it wasn't for using content from other games it was because a good number of things either way if paypal finds out you're receiving income by using an IP that doesn't belong to you then they will close your account and also charge you a pretty hefty amount.
Quote from: "phantomx"He didn't just get his paypal closed and it wasn't for using content from other games it was because a good number of things either way if paypal finds out you're receiving income by using an IP that doesn't belong to you then they will close your account and also charge you a pretty hefty amount.Umm he said himself complaint was - The Distributions of Game Hacks and Copyrighted Materials. But I've read paypal is bad and unstable, accounts can get frozen easily
You wrote he didnt get just paypal closed, what else did he get, closed bank accounts? If so obviously someone sued him
What you are discussing is actually posted about here: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8338TL;DR: He was an idiot for leaving all his money in a company known for withholding money.
Quote from: "Ohai"You wrote he didnt get just paypal closed, what else did he get, closed bank accounts? If so obviously someone sued himNo one sued him I'm not going off of what he posted I'm going off of what him and I have talked about.It was a lot worse then a sue lets just leave it at that.
Quote from: "phantomx"Quote from: "Ohai"You wrote he didnt get just paypal closed, what else did he get, closed bank accounts? If so obviously someone sued himNo one sued him I'm not going off of what he posted I'm going off of what him and I have talked about.It was a lot worse then a sue lets just leave it at that.Well ok lol, but for the sake of this thread and people interested in such legal matters about their server maybe you could share some advice, guidance .p you are in a forum lol
Quote from: "Ohai"Quote from: "phantomx"Quote from: "Ohai"You wrote he didnt get just paypal closed, what else did he get, closed bank accounts? If so obviously someone sued himNo one sued him I'm not going off of what he posted I'm going off of what him and I have talked about.It was a lot worse then a sue lets just leave it at that.Well ok lol, but for the sake of this thread and people interested in such legal matters about their server maybe you could share some advice, guidance .p you are in a forum lolA good step forward is to host your server in a place like Russia or the UK if you host it in the USA your chances of getting busted just increase.