Yeah. You reported it, sucked it up, and moved on because the reward was worth the rigor. People used to ignore trolls and not hang out in heated channels because they didn’t want that. Instead now they demand people change their behavior completely instead of minding their own business. That’s what changed.
I’m a bit of a gearhead but I diverge on the general idea that standard shift is better than automatic. It’s just not true. Fuel mileage is better on automatic, there’s less wear and tear on your transmission, you get faster reaction times, your driving experience is simpler and smoother leaving you to focus on other things. There are still guys that swear by standard transmission. I don’t go out though and demand the destruction of standard shifts and I don’t dump on people for preferring it beyond playful ribbing. Some people just like the older way of doing things and I’m content to let them live their lives that way.
I don’t know why people can’t have that same outlook on Classic. People coming in and demanding changes or Blizzard developers arrogantly assuming they know what’s best for the consumer on topics of taste and subjectivity is equivalent to campaigning for a nationwide ban on standard shifts. I let them drive how they want. It doesn’t affect me.
Oh yeah, the guys making enough money to keep their servers up are really stealing from the billion dollar corporation. If anyone’s doing any stealing in this equation it’s executives and shareholders keeping wages low so they can keep scraping off the top as publishers do. There’s examples of scummy private servers being run by scummy people and I’m not sure if you noticed but people called out those servers, spotlighted it, and left.
That’s an interesting point of fact and I didn’t actually know about that. But it doesn’t change Blizzard has still tried to go after these guys. Laws get changed all the time based on precedent, laws by nature have to change and evolve. I wouldn’t be surprised if the launch of Classic leads to some other changes.
Unfortunately you’re probably right which is why I call people to task about this stuff a lot. I have the integrity to stay off, I know myself. If everyone had that conviction eight years ago we wouldn’t want Classic because the game would not be so radically perverted.