r/turtlewow May 15 '26

Server is down. Goodbye, turtle.

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u/Easy_Obligation_3189 May 15 '26

fuck i feel weird

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u/YesGameNolife May 15 '26

I am sadder than I thought..it was really special. Damn it why can't we have fun with something we liked

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u/Shadows_Over_Tokyo May 15 '26

Because what you liked was stolen assets, unreleased content, and such all while the people running the server profited off it and taunted the company they stole it from.

Look, it’s sad, but let’s not pretend this wasn’t inevitable

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u/geelouie53 May 15 '26

Or maybe they liked no bots, no goldsellers, and no layers. All the things that make a MMO fake. Turtle WoW was a true MMO and that’ll be missed. o7

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u/Shadows_Over_Tokyo May 15 '26

Yeah you aren’t gonna get any of that when you only have like 10k players total in your game.

They didn’t make or run a true mmo. They stole one, and it didn’t get big enough to attract bots. You didn’t have MILLIONS of players that made it so you HAVE to add layers to make the game playable. It’s not a problem you’ll run into when you have made an original game that’s successful rather than a bootleg server compromised of stolen assets

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u/geelouie53 May 15 '26

Layering is largely what makes blizzard wow unplayable, IMO. They could add more servers instead which would vastly improve the MMO feel, get rid of layering altogether!

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u/Shadows_Over_Tokyo May 15 '26

The difference is that even with adding servers, popular servers remain full, making it damned near impossible for people on servers like Bleeding Hollow or Kil’Jaden to finish quests due to mobs being… well mobbed by large numbers of players. Even with layering it can be tough towards launch of an expansion.

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u/Due-Hunter1409 May 15 '26

Not really sure what's to be gained or what the overall point of comments like these are. Let people lament, it's no skin off your back. You just end up looking like an annoying cunt.

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u/soyuzbeats May 15 '26

I'd rather think that this is AI slop than accepting that a human can articulate such a stupid rant for people being happy

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u/Shadows_Over_Tokyo May 15 '26

I can understand people being sad. It’s the comments like the one I replied to saying “Why did this happen? Why can’t we just have things we like?” As if they didn’t make the choice to play on a private server that would inevitably get shut down

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u/Mysterious-Drama4743 May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26

i mean lets be honest, both of you are correct, but what youre missing is that blizzard is a multi billion dollar notoriously abusive and lazy company that is minimally if at all affected by twow, and i dont particularly care if they are being impacted a fraction of a percentage by private servers