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On Sunday, June 25, 2017 at 6:16:06 PM UTC-6, Lewis wrote:

> The complain is that people are pirating Blizzard's software, stealing
> their IP, and potentially decreasing subscriber numbers for the actual
> game.

Since it's a non-profit endeavor, what makes WoW so special over the decades of AAA games that constantly get pirated on the PC? The laughable DRMs that never do anything except inconvenience paying customers? The problem with the whole matter is that Blizz geeks think the software belongs on a tier above all else, so reasoning be damned- the Blizz/activision value has been compromised in their minds.

WoW's waning subscriber base is authoritatively of Blizzard's own doing, and in a lot of ways, these Vanilla servers are actually serving purpose for Blizzard by organizing longtime fans into remembering and valuing the Warcraft brand they once loved- looking past the current iterations of garbage DLC virtual card games and repeatedly botched expansion packs to a nearly 14 year platform.

The truth to the matter is that even if Blizzard goes after Elysium (which it being amongst the biggest, but there are many many  out there), this will never end for them. I think that's why their crusade went so quiet after the uproar of Nostalrius.

I believe that if Lewis allowed himself a week to assimilate with one of these Vanilla servers, he would see how polished a lot of things are about it and that the premise is not as vagrant as the pious Blizzard worshippers make it out to be.

-Handlotion [Level 60 Night Elf Warrior, getting feared into a group of Necromancers by a bat patrol in Stratholme]