Quote Originally Posted by Shamrock View Post
I play on private servers. With regards to illegalities, it's not really like that...Blizzard has shut a few of them down if they get too big, but they still reach ~1000 players at any given time. You also get Blizzlike realms where everything is just like Blizzard, except for a few bugs.
In this economic crunch, few people can afford to pay for play.
Private server emulators are LEGAL - no matter what anyone says!
Just as long as you the server owner do not alter the game client itself you are fine! I hosted a private WoW server for 4 years until I could not afford the costs anymore due to a heart attack and job loss! There are literally thousands of privately run WoW servers out there and as you say with ~1000 players online!

Yes, you WILL get a few tiny bugs in the game because emulators are written in Java, but what the heck, its free right?

I am now once again running a FREE Lineage II server - with a LEGAL L2J server pack!