Elysium Vanilla WoW Private Server sent me a "Pls come back email"

[WorstNovak]

Fools.. RR over everything. I loved Vanilla WoW but nothing makes me happier than seeing those purple numbers float up my screen.

[Darosh]

Didn't they shutdown at some point?
They surely will once Blizz starts bombarding folks with CnD letters as they approach (= edge closer to - at snail's pace -) the release of classic servers.

[WorstNovak]

Yeah they shutdown because some of the devs were straight taking cuts from gold sellers or some crazy **** like that XD

[Darosh]

Third party RMT on a private server? I think its more plausible to consider the devs of that server to have been faciliating the RMT themselves ~
'Oh, these evil evil RMT derps want to harm our server!' *turns around and proceeds to generate gold for the RMT with a few clicks, selling it right after*

Imho, most MMOs incl. AAA publications will have their hand in those pockets, I can't imagine any of greed the driven big publishers (Activision and EA spearheading it) to miss out on that.

Generate gold with a click -> sell gold -> ban player -> rinse and repeat until the player stops buying new accounts.

Probably only thing that gives the various Freemium/F2P/P2P games s miniscule edge in ethics, over the big publishers. They might be worse in terms of their sum of parts, but they are open about it.