I am always the game master in my DnD group and officer in my WoW guilds and enjoy presiding over the narrative of role play experiences. Warcraft is definitely a framework for me and I’ve always wanted to make my own custom WoW server and see if I could attract a loyal community of gamers to it and watch it unfold.
I almost dabbled with private server tech but I don’t want any smoke with Blizzard. I am not a server tech guy and won’t use the right terminology so hopefully some folks who are versed in this field could chime in. But it would be great if Blizzard offered custom server hosting with the ability to manipulate factors in the game such as xp gain or mob hp or perhaps even make new entirely custom spells, npcs and even new content. There would be lots of these servers and it would be very competitive for which server is managed better and produces the best version of the game.
I would love to go under the hood and create my dream version of WoW and attract a community around it. It would just be interesting to watch a server narrative unfold and have that role of an observer / game master without going behind Blizzard’s back. This is something they can monetize while benefiting from community-generated re-playable content.