The difference between Private WoW and Official WoW

Hello,

Well, I started playing this game in a Private Server(don't want to mention name of server due to publicity and all...). When i started, 3 years ago, i created a Night Elf Warrior, an Alliance character. It was all new to me in terms of play, skills, quests, everything. Anxiously fighting towards Darnassus, dying sometimes(you got to die sometime :) ) clearing dungeons, raiding cities, till this time...But that is another story for another time.

I was an admin in that Private Server eventually and as of previous administrations, we've always struggled daily to create a better server for all, free and above all, blizzlike(look like blizzard's servers). We wanted to give an opportunity for everyone who couldn't afford playing in the official servers to play there. But...
I know that now. It can't really be helped... not only it's really difficult to do this but also frustrating because all of our efforts were in vain. Some people just don't like others who make an effort to improve things and just tear stuff down and make us take blame for it, thus ruining our reputation and ruining the fun of playing and helping the community... At least we've tried! Due to that, i've quit this community and some months later, went to the Official Server of WoW. I have been playing since September of the past year until now...

Despite the fact that the game was really addicting, the big problem of the Private Servers is that the structure that sustains it it's not strong enough to hold a lot of people. So, in terms of lag, it was an hell to all players in that server. Another problem but that due to the short number of people involved in programming for the server, (because the private server it's an mere emulation of the Official World of Warcraft) there were a lot of bugs in quests, skills, talents, almost everything.
It's clear that the private server will be a look a like or "blizzlike" like we said in that time, but from these 3 years back till now, this community has evolved greatly. The evolution was not of the same path as Blizzard's Servers but another path: its own path, its own rules.

Well people, the Blizzard's Servers are a different story. In my days of Private Servers, everyone that came from the official servers always told me that it was a totally different experience than it was in the Private. The number of people(massive in comparison with the Private), gameplay, etc. and i as an ideologic defender of the Private Servers, i denied it and said always that the money not spent would always make up for the lack of gameplay. I have a different opinion of this now and i quite agree with them.

Blizzard's path differs greatly from the Private servers.


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