Blizzard Sends Cease and Desist Letters to WoW Private Servers
Following last week's lawsuit against Turtle WoW, Blizzard Entertainment has escalated its campaign against private World of Warcraft servers by issuing cease and desist letters to several private servers.
The first confirmed shutdown is Everlook, a Vanilla WoW private server. The team announced that Blizzard had contacted them with a request to close down due to copyright violations, and in compliance, the Everlook EU servers will officially go offline on September 22.
Blizzard's legal team has also targeted Project Epoch, a private server that advertises itself as offering "a unique progression experience through custom content and carefully tuned vanilla gameplay". The developers behind Project Epoch also complied with the cease and desist notice by shutting down parts of their services and the project's website.
Despite this announcement, Ascension, another private server with its own large playerbase, integrated Project Epoch into its ecosystem last month and has continued its development under their name. This move may ensure that players' characters and progress will continue to exist (at least for now), though it remains to be seen how Blizzard will react to these community merges.
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Following last week's lawsuit against Turtle WoW, Blizzard Entertainment has escalated its campaign against private World of Warcraft servers by issuing cease and desist letters to several private servers.
The first confirmed shutdown is Everlook, a Vanilla WoW private server. The team announced that Blizzard had contacted them with a request to close down due to copyright violations, and in compliance, the Everlook EU servers will officially go offline on September 22.
Blizzard's legal team has also targeted Project Epoch, a private server that advertises itself as offering "a unique progression experience through custom content and carefully tuned vanilla gameplay". The developers behind Project Epoch also complied with the cease and desist notice by shutting down parts of their services and the project's website.
Despite this announcement, Ascension, another private server with its own large playerbase, integrated Project Epoch into its ecosystem last month and has continued its development under their name. This move may ensure that players' characters and progress will continue to exist (at least for now), though it remains to be seen how Blizzard will react to these community merges.
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