Aug 26, a classic mmorpg releases. How will

[PaxArcana]

HOLY CRAP ... yeah, if that guy says "the sky is blue", I'm'a look out the gorram window before I believe him, after reading that shit ... just ... HOLY.  FUCKING.  SHIT.  BATMAN ...!! O_O 

[Spotlore]

TLDR / knew u'd B back though.  lol  

[GM Fiddleback]

I've read and reread this thread for at least an hour and I can't for the life of me figure out what the last page and a half has to do with the OP's topic.

 

Can we steer it back towards that or shall I just lock it now before it heads into the weeds?

 

Also, let's avoid being accusatory towards other people in the thread. Have your say, but do it respectfully. That's all we ask.

[boggo2300]

In an heroic effort to bring the thread back on topic <pauses for applause>

 

I don't see how Classic WoW will affect player numbers here at all, Of the regular folks I play with, only one ever played WoW and he stopped in about 2006...

 

Honestly to my understanding (never having played WoW) the games are so completely different I am surprised so many think there is much overlap (and I remember on Live how every time a WoW expansion dropped all these WoW players showed up who had rage quit, then left after a few days because the gameplay was so different)

[VanCorp]

On 8/29/2019 at 8:47 PM, PaxArcana said:

Or, you know, just living without.  It's not like food, water, medicine, or shelter (which are absolutely required for survival).  It's games, which are just entertainment ... and there are plenty of other options out there for that, without having to resort to thievery.  🙂

Precisely, as an author who makes a living by selling his novels, and has had his novels found on pirate sites, the people who pirate their entertainment, I don't care if it's just video games, can go rot in Hell.

[Charistoph]

11 hours ago, boggo2300 said:

In an heroic effort to bring the thread back on topic <pauses for applause>

 

I don't see how Classic WoW will affect player numbers here at all, Of the regular folks I play with, only one ever played WoW and he stopped in about 2006...

 

Honestly to my understanding (never having played WoW) the games are so completely different I am surprised so many think there is much overlap (and I remember on Live how every time a WoW expansion dropped all these WoW players showed up who had rage quit, then left after a few days because the gameplay was so different)

Very true.  Either they are already playing Live WoW (at which point their time playing Homecoming will be a waste of money, so they generally won't be playing Homecoming anyway), or they were already playing on private servers of Vanilla WoW any way, which will only cause a partial issues, because it is debatable how much is being played anyway.

 

As a side note, is it pirating if you've already paid for the product, but they are no longer delivering said product, so you turn to someone who is providing that product?

[PaxArcana]

2 hours ago, VanCorp said:

Precisely, as an author who makes a living by selling his novels, and has had his novels found on pirate sites

This one really burns me.  Have these fools never heard of libraries ...?  Or, get a bunch of friends with similar reading tastes.  Everybody buys one, DIFFERENT, book.  When everyone's done, "pass your books one space to the left", until you get your own book handed back to you.

 

Plus, used book stores are still a thing.

[Spotlore]

 

[THEDarkTyger]

On 8/30/2019 at 8:05 AM, PaxArcana said:

A server NCSoft is fully aware of, and has yet to issue a C&D letter against.  Indeed, NCSoft is currently at the negotiating table in talks whose goal is to fully legitimize that very server.

All that does not change the fact that it is still very much the same as software piracy at present.