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Reasons why most of WoW private servers sucks
https://github.com/francescoborzi/why-i-hate-wow-private-servers

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Reasons why most of WoW private servers sucks

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/francescoborzi/why-i-hate-wow-private-servers
• Owner: FrancescoBorzi
• License: agpl-3.0
• Created: 2020-07-06T21:13:07.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-12-17T20:18:13.000Z (6 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-18T10:24:18.206Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: azerothcore, cmangos, mangos, trinitycore, warcraft, world-of-warcraft, world-of-warcraft-classic, world-of-warcraft-client, wow, wow-emulation
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• Size: 868 KB
• Stars: 109
• Watchers: 8
• Forks: 29
• Open Issues: 3
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Why I hate WoW private servers

Reasons why most private WoW servers suck (in my opinion of course). :)

If you want to know more about WoW emulation, or just want to chat with me, join [our development Discord chat](https://discord.com/invite/gkt4y2x).

This article is available in the following languages:

- 🇵🇸 [ARABIC](https://github.com/FrancescoBorzi/why-I-hate-wow-private-servers/blob/master/ARABIC.md)

- 🇨🇳 [CHINESE](https://github.com/FrancescoBorzi/why-I-hate-wow-private-servers/blob/master/CHINESE.md)

- 🇬🇧 [ENGLISH](https://github.com/FrancescoBorzi/why-I-hate-wow-private-servers/blob/master/ENGLISH.md)

- 🇫🇷 [FRENCH](https://github.com/FrancescoBorzi/why-I-hate-wow-private-servers/blob/master/FRENCH.md)

- 🇩🇪 [GERMAN](https://github.com/FrancescoBorzi/why-I-hate-wow-private-servers/blob/master/GERMAN.md)

- 🇭🇺 [HUNGARIAN](https://github.com/FrancescoBorzi/why-I-hate-wow-private-servers/blob/master/HUNGARIAN.md)

- 🇮🇹 [ITALIAN](https://github.com/FrancescoBorzi/why-I-hate-wow-private-servers/blob/master/ITALIAN.md)

- 🇲🇸 [MALAY](https://github.com/FrancescoBorzi/why-I-hate-wow-private-servers/blob/master/MALAY.md)

- 🇵🇱 [POLISH](https://github.com/FrancescoBorzi/why-I-hate-wow-private-servers/blob/master/POLISH.md)

- 🇵🇹 [PORTUGUESE](https://github.com/FrancescoBorzi/why-I-hate-wow-private-servers/blob/master/PORTUGUESE.md)

- 🇷🇴 [ROMANIAN](https://github.com/FrancescoBorzi/why-I-hate-wow-private-servers/blob/master/ROMANIAN.md)

- 🇷🇺 [RUSSIAN](https://github.com/FrancescoBorzi/why-I-hate-wow-private-servers/blob/master/RUSSIAN.md)

- 🇪🇸 [SPANISH](https://github.com/FrancescoBorzi/why-I-hate-wow-private-servers/blob/master/SPANISH.md)

**More translations are welcome!** You can submit new language versions via Pull Requests. ;)

Video that explains the philosophy in this repository:

- [🇬🇧 English](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIiGOgNdGts)

### Disclaimer for fellow developers

IF YOU ARE A WOW EMULATION ENTHUSIAST, READ THIS BEFORE PROCEEDING:

What I am doing here is to explain things as simple as possible, so what you are going to read **might not be 100% technically accurate/detailed**, but I really did my best to put things in **simple words** in order to make it **understandable for non-developers**.

For example:

- I'm aware of GPL not being exactly like [AGPL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License) and I'm aware of the ASP loophole issue.

- I know that MaNGOS comes from WoWDaemon and I know that "MaNGOS" wasn't the only piece, but to be fair, I should mention other projects of the MaNGOS ecosystem such as ScritpDev2, UDB, et cetera.

- I'm also aware that MaNGOS wasn't the only WoW emulator back in the days (sorry Antrix/Ascent/Arcemu guys, it is absolutely not my intention to belittle your work!).

- ... and I'm probably aware of whatever else you might find not 100% accurate from my article.

**HOWEVER... I just didn't want to make my story more technical than it already is, in order to make random WoW players understand my point**.

This is **NOT** supposed to be an accurate story of WoW emulation. This is just supposed to make non-technical people aware of what is going on behind private servers, as nowadays most of them are running on MaNGOS-based cores.

**If you think something can be improved, please feel free to send a change request via Pull Request.**