Man, I hope so. Full-time job, plus semi-social life means that days of grinding incessantly are gone. So, either the game gives me an option to circumvent it, or I don’t mess with the game anymore.

I took my second xanax of the day just now after getting shaky from anxiety. I got so anxious and upset after running into my neighbor, who proceeded to tell me that she voted for Jill Stein because she thought Trump is dumb, but was still “so relieved” that Hillary didn’t win because she’s “so dangerous” and “allied…

Exactly. Blizzard being a company, I can’t imagine it being free. So the Nostalrius people will make some argument about how it should be free and then leave their server up regardless. That’s what I’d predict anyway. The accusations that Blizzard chose this are a lose-lose for Blizzard, they know it, so of course…

IP theft, identity theft, copyright theft... none of these take something without leaving the original behind, yet in every case they have the potential by doing so to cause loss. You can argue severity but they’re all still theft. You wouldn’t argue (hopefully, I’m assuming you’re a sane, competent person, despite…

They don’t get to pick and choose. As a member of an organization you uphold that organizations laws, or you get kicked out. Its not a “uphold the laws when it suits you” situation.

The Blizzard level-of-quality will take Blizzard amount-of-time to happen, figures. But these guys are having none of it.

I’m pretty sure that in the eyes of the law, that’s still considered profiting, even if it doesn’t actually result in profits— they took money for providing a private server for a game they hold no legal ownership of.

It wasn’t non-profit, they accepted money to run the servers, which is income gleaned from something they did not hold any legal rights to, regardless of the cost of operating servers.

They absolutely could. It just wouldn’t be worth the money to them. The whole point of this exercise was that Nost got too big. If they kep crushing the big ones, or even just do it once in a while, it will be enough to scatter people to the wind and prevent any real inroads from being made. I’m happy with that and…

I’ve kind of been waiting for them to start bandwagoning Anonymous™ bullshit when they didn’t get their way immediately. It looks like this is the start of it.

Actually, bliz does pretty significant business in Russia and yes, for a multibillion dollar enterprise which plays nicely with them, they will absolutely comply with the laws and treaties they’ve agreed to. Russia has a large underground piracy market but there’s a damn good reason they haven’t become a haven for…

So basically, you believe that if you don’t like something, you should be free to steal it and profit off of it?

Blizzard could release a Legacy server tomorrow and these people would still put up their server. They’d find some excuse for it—Blizzard or meeting with whatever conjured up expectation to justify them keeping up their free version. It’s not about giving fans what they want for these people. It’s about showing off…

Yeah, because Russian lawyers hate money.

It’s not a tricky issue at all, as it is Blizzard’s game and property and they can do whatever they want with it. Vanilla WoW is as much Blizzard’s game as the current WoW is. The creator of a property has the right to use or not use its property in the way it sees fit.

Does this guy really live in a world where Blizzard loses control of their intellectual property because they don’t do what he wants them to do?

As someone who was there, this was pretty deliberate Hunting for Nostralius on the board.I saw 13 members of my original vanilla-MoP guild on the board and didn’t notice the Nostralius graffiti.

“If Blizzard doesn’t make an announcement to honour their own core values, be sure that we will,”

That cartoonish feel is part of what makes overwatch great.

Just like TF2 before it, it helps you ID characters at a glance, and helps to give the “over the top” type of action a more appropriate venue.

The best thing they ever did when developing TF2 is switch to the cartoony style, and Blizzard knew it.

South (of The United States of) America.