Reasons why WoW most of private servers sucks, in my opinion of course :) If you want to know more about WoW emulation or just want to chat with me, join our development Discord chat.

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IF YOU ARE A WOW EMULATION ENTUSIAST, READ THIS BEFORE PROCEEDING

Here I'm trying to explain things in a simple way, so what you are going to read might not be 100% technically accurate/detailed but I really did my best to put things in simple words in order to make it understandable for non-developers.

For example:

• I'm aware of GPL not being exaclty like AGPL and I'm aware of the ASP loophole issue
• I know that MaNGOS comes from WoWDaemon and I know that "MaNGOS" wasn't the only piece but to be fair I should mention other projects of the MaNGOS ecosystem such as ScritpDev2, UDB;
• I'm also aware that MaNGOS wasn't the only WoW emulator back in the days (sorry Antrix/Ascent/Arcemu guys! it is absolutely not my intention to belittle your work)
• and I'm probably aware of whatever else you might find not 100% accurate from my article.

HOWEVER... I just didn't want to make my story more technical than it already is, in order to make any random WoW player understand my point.

This is NOT supposed to be an accurate story of WoW emulation. This is just supposed to make non-technical people aware of what's going on behind private servers, as nowadays most of them run on MaNGOS-based cores.

If you think something can be improved, please feel free to send a change-request via PR.