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Plastic Rat:

I am sorry mate, some of your logic doesn't exactly make any sense either.

If you steal a drink or car, someone is losing out a physical property. A drink or Car is tangible, if there are only 400 Enzos in the world and I steal one, I have just deprived the rest of the world a chance to buy an Enzo

What exactly is blizzard losing out by ppl playing private servers? It's not like Blizzard has maximum of 11 million copies of game and by playing on private servers, they somehow deprive legitimate paying customer of WOW experience.

In that regard, you just can't compare private server to stealing. It just doesn't work.

This is by far the stupid move Blizzard made with regard to the private servers.

1) Private servers does not replicate the real WOW experience. The fact that the biggest private server only has 1500ish player, that is no where near the 10+million active wow players. The whole online experience which contribute much to WOW's addiction simply does not replicate on the private servers.

2) Private servers are no where near perfect. Most of the quest on private server are broken, professions? broken, skills? broken. In druggie's terms, private server are junk weed when compared with OG Kush of the Retail servers. The way I see it, player will get maybe 25% of full experience of WOW. They will get addicted to WOW even at 25%, then probably move on to real server after getting fed up with all the problems that comes with private servers.

What blizzard has done is to push the private server underground. The private server will come back, but it'll be hosted in a country where DMCA doesn't reach like Sweden, it will have team of coders/hackers work around the clock to fix all the problems with the private servers just to spite Blizzard. It will come back stronger than ever because people now have a reason to spite blizzard. Anyone who ever spend any significant time building guild/gear/character on a private server would be pissed that blizzard did this. The people who were playing on private server for the past 2.5 years? They will probably go ape shit and spend 24/7 trying to figure out how to fuck Blizzard over by making private servers better.

Look at it another way. Blizzard hired a high power law firm to shut down at most 10,000 people who aren't paying to play wow. Blizzard have over 10 million people actively paying $15 a month. 10,000 people or .01% of the current paying customer is nothing, it doesn't affect their bottom line profit in any significant way. What's the point? It doesn't make any sense in dollar amount either. Law firm cost money, have lawfirm filing suit/sending letters cost money, researching private servers and finding them out cost money. At best, they can hope to have $150,000 extra a month on top of their $150 million income. At worst, the 10,000 private server player will each donate $10 dollar to a dev. team that can host and make private server run the same or better than the retail server.

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yes please

I have a sony vaio Pocket mp3 player taking up desk space now that I have upgraded to a zune.

I am really thankful for the alarm clock, without it, I never get up on time

still running xp 1600+ cpu, 512 megs of ram, geforce 2 graphic card:(

Please pick me!

Starcraft!

I am looking forward to the itune integration and the google map application it has