Private server streams are taking over Twitch

WoW Classic WoW Classic General Discussion
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Lots of people streaming illegal 1.12 private servers and getting 100-300+ viewers. I’ve counted over 60 individual accounts over the past week all streaming illegal content and getting paid donations and twitch subs. Some of them are even 3.3.5 wrath servers.

But i don’t expect Blizzard or Twitch to do anything about it after they reverted the 6 month bans people got for using pornographic mods with their injection based model edit hack.

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so? whats wrong with that and why do you sound concerned

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Maybe he got banned for streaming and is mad others are not getting banned.

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Hmm… I should head off to twitch and report those streams for streaming illegal servers.

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I’m assuming that that totals to 16000 or so total viewers
I wouldn’t be concerned if that was something to be concerned about were number larger

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Not even close. The top ones might have a couple hundred viewers, but the majority of them have less that 40.

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Viewers for all private server streams are over 2,000.

That’s 10% of all current wow viewers and it’s only been increasing as more and more streamers break 300+ concurrent viewers as people who are impatient for the release date of classic go and find their streams and give them money.

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Why is this a problem?

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Because it’s a bannable offense.

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This is good for classic, those servers have a limited lifespan soon to trail off

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Not really. Those servers are not in any way truly indicative of how Classic will be.

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I honestly don’t mind. Just shows what many of us have said for years, “this is the game we enjoy.”

I get that Blizzard has right to protect intellectual property. But this just shows necessity to release an official offering. Players are hungry for the game. Viewers are hungry for the content.

I just hope Blizzard chills with DMCA’s or at least offers compromise to streamers to prevent perma-bans. Its rough to enjoy the content only to have your favorite streamers de-platformed due to perma-ban.

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By the way, e-mailing all of these streamer urls to Blizzard @ hacks@blizzard.com is something we should all be doing. They need to DMCA all of them and get them perma-banned for violating copyright.

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That argument is beat to death and not worth getting into in this thread. “Truly indicative” isn’t an objective measure, but the bottom line is that its way more indicative than playing live, its more indicative than playing other games, and despite known/unknown issues its as close as anyone can get for right now. They’re effective in holding over those waiting for Classic and are filled with people hyping the release of Blizzard’s official product, ready and willing to open their wallets.

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who cares dude.

cool that people stream private servers dont be a negative person

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hahaha you are nuts. Bet you love retail XD

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Blizzard does regularly contact twitch and other streaming sites to ban them but they make new accounts and start back up. Blizzard has a right to do that but it’s weird to me that customers would care about private server streamers. Is it brand loyalty or are you just a stickler for the rules and hate other people having fun? Either way I think its weird.

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No it’s not.

Private servers are filled with (and run by) terrible thieves that deserve whatever negative consequences they get.

Reporting them for DMCA takedowns is our civic duty, and great fun besides.

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He just hates people enjoying Vanilla, bet wants to shut them voices up who are gonna bring back the genre and crush Retail once and for all. :blush: While retail keeps falling apart, classic will keep their stabilized population like it always did

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