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I self hosted a World of Warcraft server. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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The title really says it all, but I’m self hosting world of Warcraft wrath of the lich king.

I’m just so shocked that it all works to be honest. It’s blowing my mind still.

I always want to play classic wow, but I play so infrequently that it’s not worth paying a subscription.

It never really occurred to me that I could just host my own server until chatgpt recommended that when I was researching things to self hosting.

It’s not public yet as my upload speeds are too slow.

I think I’m going to set the server up on my laptop so I can play wow while on my 14 hour flight coming up.

I’ve always played the game solo anyway due to my casualness.

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[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 41 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Aside: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2382520/Erenshor/

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

As someone who believes LFG was the beginning of the end of MMOs, I can't tell if I despise this or if I'm impressed.

[–] IncogCyberspaceUser@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

LFG?

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

Looking for Group. As someone else said, the ability to click "queue for dungeon", be dropped into an instance with a bunch of random, and proceed to faceroll the dungeon without any thought or patience required.

The fun part of old school MMOs was the journey, not the destination. Modern MMOs have all optimized the journey out by making everything doable without ever being dependent on another player.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I think they mean the automated party queueing and match making systems, which takes out the social aspects from MMOs altogether.

[–] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

That looks fun like old Everquest.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

That's awesome.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Oh wow, thanks for the recommendation. This looks perfect.

[–] cryptTurtle@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Damn, my first thought was how fun it would be with my friends lol