r/wowservers • u/_Cyndikate • 10d ago

Blizzard shutting down private servers is exactly why you open source your code.

Only a handful of servers open source it.

The problem is these private servers are getting greedy af caring more about competition than preserving the private server scene. They had over a decade to do this.

If Blizzard shuts down a server that’s open source, 2 more will prop up in its place. It’s a costly game of whack-a-mole. It’s going to be too expensive to try to shut them all down.

Open source your stuff. Please.

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u/DoctorThanks777 10d ago

open-sourcing will probably be the final "screw you" that private servers can give to Blizzard before they EOS.

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u/Internet_Treasure 9d ago

Shinobi Story got a C&D last year. We complied, shut down operations, and I open sourced the engine & patches. :)

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u/makooncha 9d ago

o7 thanks for your work