Well that’s where is falls into a grey area. You are able to download the clients of the game just about anywhere except the official Blizzard source, because it’s no longer that same client. If I do not script and code the game properly, I cannot play it. It’s a useless dud to just download the base client. You will go into the log-in screen.
What you need is somebody who DOES use the games assets and code the game. That’s where the grey area stops. That’s why most private servers are hosted outside the US.
We can sit here and pretend to be armchair lawyers all we want, but the matter of the fact is, nobody was arrested for merely “playing” a private server. People HAVE been arrested for HOSTING, a private server.
Your problem is that you keep arriving at only two possible outcomes when presented with a particular issue. The challenge in leveling isn’t the difficulty, it’s the time that it takes. Some people are not going to do that, no matter how many addons or guides that you give them. In the absence of a boost, they aren’t forced to level. They just won’t play. You’re not conscripted into playing WoW lol.
Maybe the game would be better off with less players, but we’ll never know.
The best part about this screenshot is that time played is 2 seconds and every keybind is already shadowbolt lol
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That’s not how Intellectual Property works. I seem to remember some people paying a pretty heavy price for using Napster in the early days. Just because something is not enforced does not mean it is not illegal.
When did I say the leveling was challenging? I did no such thing.
And yeah, leveling takes time. That’s the point of it. Time. Also, in the absence of the boost, every servers economy wouldn’t be in shambles ruining it for the rest of the players who are actually interested in the game.
And uh, you might have a point with that last statement. I think we can get rid of a few bad apples.
Also notice they already have 60 silver and change 
No one has a problem with boosting because it’s cheaper than buying gold and paying a mage to boost you…
This was being exploited to no end prior to the boost. No one cared then either.
What people have a problem with is entitled players… your boost didn’t give you the right to go and play in a 5 man dungeon or a 10-25 man raid. So the no tanks situation that goes hand in hand with boosted players are kind of the same thing.
If you can’t take the time to level will you take the time to learn your class, rotation and the general idea of the content you run? If the answer is yes then…
No one cares…
Non boosted character know the level of Sunken Temple.
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Tell me how intellectual property works then oh-so great forum lawyer! Tell me, please.
Also, if you really wanna get into the nitty gritty of it. The private servers were in their moral sensibilities whether you’d like to accept that or not. Not within the confines of the law, but in the confines of “We couldn’t play the old game anywhere else”. Blizzard didn’t give their game proper preservation despite outcries for YEARS. And people who shot private servers down and gave us the fabled “WALL OF NO” for years weren’t helping the situation.
You can pretend laws determine who’s a thief.
Alright, send the FBI knocking on my door for playing a private server and the millions of others who did so. I’m sure this will go over well.
Oh wait, you won’t and can’t because the FBI doesn’t care about petty crap like that.
They’re not bad apples because they boosted lol. For this to be the problem that you’re saying it is, a significant number of players would have needed to use the boost, which means that they didn’t have max level classic era toons. How many of those players would not have bothered leveling 1-70? I know you think that they have no choice, but they do. There are thousands of games to play.
None of this matters anyway. The game economy in the old world can’t be sustained by alts. That content was going to die either way. We aren’t getting a meaningful number of new players interested in this.
There is no one to level with in Azeroth for people who didn’t use a pay2win service.
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This is actually the only sin of it all…
OKAY. Then go play those thousands of other games. This isn’t rocket science. If you want a counter argument to the one you think is completely defendable, how about this, think about how many players the boost TURNED AWAY. Did you ever think about that? Do you really believe the boost brought more players in saying “YEAH BRO, I’M GONNA GO HOME, GET DAT DARK PORTAL PASS, SKIP A MASSIVE CHUNK OF THE GAME AND BECOME A TOP TIER RAID LOGGER”. What?
The reason we aren’t getting a meaningful number of new players is because of the recent controversies and Blizzards greed and neglect of their games. You’re in so much denial it’s unreal.
Incidentally, I could ask you why you had a problem with you or your kids just leveling as per normal.
You even admit the gear you were given was mediocre compared to whatever you would have gotten through doing early quests and dungeons in the old world, right?
If you’re leaning on the excuse that you’re doing this “with your children” then what does it matter if you don’t want to level again. Just do it for the sake of playing the game with your kids. You’re making it sound like you foisted the boost on your kid for your sake, not for your kids’ sake. God knows what your children are thinking when they have a boosted character with a truckload of skills and abilities they’ve never seen nor learned how to use over the course of leveling a character normally.
East of botting. Period.
This is probably the most egregious side effect in my opinion.
Seeing people running around Durotar & Goldshire is one of the things that makes this game feel like an MMO.
You can go hours questing in The Barrens without seeing a soul currently.
And yet here you are. Maybe some players quit over it, but did they lose more than they gained? If so, they wouldn’t have done it lol. Classic peaked long before this lawsuit. There’s a market for classic, but it’s a niche one. I’m not sure what you expected to happen here, but the golden age of MMO’s is over. Of the millions of players that played TBC when it was current, we have a tiny fraction of that now. They didn’t refuse to come back because of boosting.
Classic era was not picking up players months after launch either. It peaked, normalized, and then slowly dropped off. I know you don’t want to believe that, but that trend is continue until the servers are shut down for good.
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