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well, the price for a monthly subscription is quite high calculated in my country's "monetary/living" rate. you don't usually spend 5$ per game and now you got to pay 10x. but if you got a good job, you can afford such games. and I personally for playing in OFF servers only, unless the private servers got off files.. ;)
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Originally Posted by xtorsion
I've played WoW since Beta, I've always liked it, now it's about the Legendary and Epic equipment raids. Slowly im growing sick of it, when I found there was a way to Emulate WoW and host your own server, I was like "Yeah that's what Im talking about" It's more about individual creativity and what we as users of the emulations wanna create on our servers, some wanna expand on the game and include material B!izz just doesn't wanna include, some of us wanna hack and slash and take out frustrations of not being able to do so due to nubz and flamers on official servers.
So yeah I believe it's more like expressing your imagination.
Hey does anyone know how to get the MegaGameObjectsPack to work? I installed it correctly and nothing will spawn after I use .respawnall and .info to make sure it's distance and gameobject code is correct.
Btw Emu's are great for countries with shitty internet like here in Iraq, and other soldiers besides myself wanna play and build on our server, so it occupies our downtime instead of fighting like 3000ms playing on official servers.
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IVe played on official, WoW, Lineage II, Guildwars, and a slew of others. The reason I quit and came to private servers..
Official servers have a population of 30-40% farm bots , 50-60% eBayers who feed those bots, and support ingame and out that'll make you want to wrap your mouse cord around your own neck and pull. Sure finding a private server with active GM's isnt always easy, but when you do ask a GM for help on a private server Its not gonna be a Macro response like almost every official server GM provides. Private servers imo have better support and a better community than the officials, shit just go browse ANY official game site forum for an hour and you can see that im right.
Official servers have just as many younger people as the private realm, if not more based on the population. Official servers have plenty of bugs as well, just look at the patch notes.
Private and Lan servers are buggy sure, but you get what you pay for. Its expected. Ive seen what the official servers have to offer, and the grass isnt greener as you seem to think.
this guy is a moron to go posting here...spoiled 12 year olds!
Redsl i agree...private servers are only the same as the officials once were...but private servers don't have giant companies with a lot of money to research WHY the bugs are there in the first place...you have more fun not worrying about getting this month's pay check than going and working you *** off on some rpg that ends up costing u maybe $250+ by the time u get that 1 player maxed out! come on...blizzard won't last forever (it may a while but NOT forever) and eventually you'll wish you had saved that money for something more productive.
Best thing about private is you can create your own content to keep you and others interested past level 60. Thats what I do, custom spells, custom AI, and custom areas you dont have access to on live.
PLus not everyone likes to HAVE to play countless hours and hours to get in a decent raiding guild, be there on time for raids things like that. People have lives outside game and private servers cater to those people too, by making content group orientated or solo orientated rather than raid style mobs.
Its really simple. We all know that the official servers are better in almost every way (stability, balance etc), yet we host our own servers. Why? Because we're able to modify things that arent possible as a regular player on off servers. The creativity keeps us going. And so does curiousity. Not everyone has a lvl 60 on the off servers. Its nice to check the new tier 3 items etc, on yourself instead of watching a bunch of screenshots.
[imagine]
By playing private servers, we keep developing and reporting bugs to developers which will, in the end, perhaps, in a far far future, in a weird way become just as good as the official servers. And (if we're lucky) blizzard realises this and lower their monthly fee to compete against the billions of billions of private servers out there.
[/imagine]
There are several reasons I like emu's; although, I do pay for my account & play on it, as well.
1. I live above the arctic circle & average latency is > 1200ms. Average latency on my server < 50ms.
2. I usually just solo or join small groups; and, those are with just friends. After having played EQ & WoW the last 7-1/2 years, my tolerance for pick-up groups has dropped dramatically. Some of them are still fun, but, more often than not, I'm frustrated.
3. I can mess with the content to my heart's desire. If I want different, more or less mobs, I can make it happen. I can mess with the code if I have to, and make changes that make sense, to me, at least.
4. The coolness factor, alone, is worth it =).
So, I DO pay to play, and, I play on an EMU, too. If I had a Bl!zz@rd server closer to me, I don't know if I would be on an EMU; 1200ms is outrageous & frustrating, but, it's all I've got.
hows the bandwidth up there? satellite? lol. had to ask :D
LOL, yeah, satellite connection; but, the damn ISP has some sort of packet filtering/restructuring rule in place that further adds to our slowness *grrr*
if you can get dial up, it will provide better latency for WOW, dial up is 4kb upload and download, and wow takes about 2-3kb you would prob ping 600 ish heh :D
damn, if you dont like private servers, then leave.
personally i find the development fun, i dont play so much as i code.
and there are some emu's that look promising (namely delfin) it already has weather, and othner stuff.
anyway 20 australian dollars a month is too much for me, and even then i would get a crap ping on adls cos there are no true australian servers. sure theres the vegemite (or something???) server and the bathurst one but they suck
thats my 2 cents
i agree with extermin8tor, i love to just sit around and mess with all the things, make my own items and all that, i still play reg. wow too, and i still get in a good 12+hours a week, even with school and work and all. so stfu and leave if u dont like em, stop bitching to us about what you thinkis rigth and wrong.
my other main reason for not playing reg. wow as often anymore is that all the "raiding guilds" are too damn picky, ive been 60 for a good 2 months now, and none of them will take me, even with some pretty good gear. it just pisses me off that they can't have fun without habing the best stuff.
People like you, Xtorsion. That's why I play private servers, so I don't have to deal with people like you, and the guild you're undoubtedly in. I had three 60s in retail, the first of which took for-fking-ever to get there because my server was full of retards. Every single time i was in a good guild, it got ruined by greed. Hence, I started playing greed-free private servers. They taste delicious.
That, and I don't have to find 39 idiots every time I want to kill something.
first of all, for people who say they play WoW to test the game but never seem to play the real thing... you are sadly missing out on so much the real game has to offer. I use to play on private servers and like you all, laughed at people paying on offical, but one day i decided to test how it compaired to the emus and i can tell you that ive never looked back and if i knew that official was gonna be SO much better than the emus... I wouldn't have wasted my time on emus. Sure on emus we can change what we like, but we cant even play that properly cause of all the bugs, so what would be the point of getting to lvl60 fast and getting tier 3 items if they dont even work properly???
Getting into a end game raiding guild isn't hard on official and the feeling and the rush you get when you first enter MC with 39 other people is awsum, the feeling of domo summoning rags is a rush which no emu can compair to... hell, the event doesnt even work on emus, let along the summoning. Emus only let you exprience the very basics of what the game has to offer and yet even that is limited.
This is all emulation.
Emulation is how we can emulate something, indeed there is bugs, but thats the whole point of this place, to report bugs and to get ways of fixing them.
If you play on the retail wow, why even bother to post here..
Go and play wow on the real server, and leave us to our emulation.