Turtle WoW's Lawsuit and Closure

World of Warcraft has been the forefront of MMOS for many years. Every single MMO whether it’s free to play or has been a paid subscription has always been touted as being the MMO killer.

Though its not without its controversies. Just in the past couple of years when the lawsuit was going on in regards to sexual harassment at Blizzard, many players stated that they were going to either quit playing or start playing private servers.

For those who are unaware a private server is basically the base game of an mmo like World of Warcraft or Aion that uses the original coding, assets and character models. The only difference is that the values for the game and the story are manipulated.

Many private servers will tout that they will give you 2x the normal experience or money gained and then have new quests. Or in Turtle WoW’s case they gave people high elves and allowed you to customize your classes.

Now the thing with private servers is that well…they’re illegal to make and even illegal to play. It’s basically like being in Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is that… you don’t talk about Fight Club. You don’t talk to other people about private servers nor do you admit that you play them.

One small slip up can either land you in jail or close down the server. Which is what happened to Turtle WoW.

Now the problem with Turtle WoW was that they not only had a patreon that they were taking money from people and that they even replied to one of Blizzard’s posts trying to taunt them. Now I don’t know the specifics about the lawsuit but it seems as though that Turtle WoW flew a little too close to the sun in terms of keeping the existence of the private server well…private.

If anything it seemed like they were flying a little too close to the sun. Honestly, I will say this, they kind of deserved it. That and two other private servers have also started to shut down as well. Which leaves the only other two that I know of. One is like Turtle WoW and the other is more for roleplayers to build their world.

But honestly I think the best option is that everyone needs to operate under Fight Club rules: Don’t talk about Fight Club. If anyone asks, no you don’t play a private server.

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