• Eldritch@piefed.world
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    18 hours ago

    Interesting. Honestly I’d love to see blizzard endorse something like this and maybe even work with. Though that’s probably far fetched. Ultimately it’s the content that makes them money. This would allow for the possibly of Linux BSD haiku and other native clients as well as possibly arm and riscv native binaries as well. It could “possibly” reduce some Dev load. While also future proofing things.

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        15 hours ago

        ?

        I would guess you’re referencing Turtle WoW? But I have no sympathy for them. They did that to themselves. Blizzard left most private servers to themselves for over a decade. My first experience with Wow was a private server.

        Don’t get me wrong, I’m a fan of the content generally, not the company. Especially being part of pedosoft now. I mean, honestly that was kind of a lateral move considering Kotik. Or any of the other issues. But turtle in particular was egregious. They weren’t taking small donations in the kitty to help pay for hosting for a server for their friends.They were operating a cash shop and paying for developer’s and much more. Writing new lore and stories built off the back of blizzard’s content.

        At some point you have to be like; shit, just create some new assets etc and tell your own story. Something that should be simpler than trying to keep reverse engineering someone else’s content. No one has a monopoly on dwarves, elves, humans, gnomes, litch, orc, trolls etc. They were running a business on blizzard’s own name while competing with them.

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          15 hours ago

          At some point you have to be like; shit, just create some new assets etc and tell your own story.

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