Why do you keep playing on private servers?

[AnonKitten]

That all has its place, for sure.

There will always be potential griefing, but that's why there is the ability to ignore and tools to address bad actors. I have never tried building with rp servers before. It sounds really neat. I am against phasing because I like walk up RPs, but yes I have been victim to weirdos/erpers so I can see the appeal for phasing. I guess I'm ok with rolling the dice so to speak, but the building for sure would need to be phased. I'd love to see this in action, but sadly I don't think there are any RP servers. I think RP Heaven shut down

Epsilon WoW is 100% open and thriving but I do think that's about all that's left.

Paragon WoW might still be up to stuff?

 

[PrivateDonut]

I haven't actively played on a private server since around 2013-14. I have stuck around the scene with it piquing my interest from time to time, during which time I enjoy creating content regardless of if I plan to release it or not.

 

[ike3]

Late reply, but private servers can give different experience while playing WoW.

For me personally, I like features like that:
1) Vanilla+ such as Turtle WoW, additional content (quests, zones, raids, custom game mechanics)
2) Single Player experience - playing the game offline with AI bots (leveling up and doing all the dungeons/raids without help of other players, kind of a challenge)

I am even recording a complete 1-60 leveling of wow classic single player on YT: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAWQ3KGLBZGKueqt__Q-o4g and it feels so much different from the original game that I could say I am playing a completely different game from Warcraft Universe.

 

[Samibotss]

Late reply, but private servers can give different experience while playing WoW.

For me personally, I like features like that:
1) Vanilla+ such as Turtle WoW, additional content (quests, zones, raids, custom game mechanics)
2) Single Player experience - playing the game offline with AI bots (leveling up and doing all the dungeons/raids without help of other players, kind of a challenge)

I am even recording a complete 1-60 leveling of wow classic single player on YT: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAWQ3KGLBZGKueqt__Q-o4g and it feels so much different from the original game that I could say I am playing a completely different game from Warcraft Universe.

Classic+ content is def a high selling point since Blizz still can't be arsed to do it sadly

 

[Darksoke]

Most servers lost population after Classic release, but you know what you don't find on Blizz Servers ? Custom stuff, people still playing for the custom stuff, and many servers managed to do things that Blizzard always refused to add to the game

 

[Samibotss]

Most servers lost population after Classic release, but you know what you don't find on Blizz Servers ? Custom stuff, people still playing for the custom stuff, and many servers managed to do things that Blizzard always refused to add to the game

I can definitely see the appeal, I hopped onto Season of Discovery expecting lots of new quest lines and content, but eventually quit after approaching lvl 25 and seeing nothing apart from a few new runes.