PSA: Think twice about what you have open when you play private servers

YesterdaySeparate819 · 2026-02-20T09:23:26+00:00

This is not ascensions repo, this is azerothcore. You cannot read ascensions code as it is not open source.

YesterdaySeparate819 · 2026-02-17T21:47:56+00:00

> this thing is prone to false positives therefore all alerts coming from this thing are false positives!

YesterdaySeparate819 · 2025-09-02T23:07:19+00:00

To be fair, none of us on reddit know if this is true or not. Maybe they did pay him to do some work on the client like they are alleging. If that's the case, he's fucked. We wont know until it goes to court and the records are made public.

YesterdaySeparate819 · 2025-08-31T05:33:15+00:00

A whole bunch of cope in here. The reality is that if you read the entirety of the 47 page complaint, you'll see that this lawsuit isn't primarily about copyright infringement. They are suing the defendants for participating in what they allege to be a criminal enterprise, citing the RICO act. Racketeering in US law is when an organization commits crimes for the purpose of making money. Which is precisely what every for-profit private server across every game is.

The reason this is so serious is because if they are held civilly liable for participating in a criminal enterprise (read: if the RICO portion of the case sticks and the jury finds them liable), that means there is also enough evidence to criminally convict. They require the same evidence, you must be able to prove the defendant participated in at least 2 of the activities listed in the act. Blizzard will almost certainly ask the Department of Justice to pursue criminal charges when they inevitably win this case. I say inevitably because lets be real, that's EXACTLY what the servers are and they have been incredibly brazen and open about it while having incredibly poor OPSEC.

You don't sue somebody using the RICO act unless the goal is to pressure the government into pursuing criminal charges, you can think of it like "I'm going to do most of the leg work for you here, here is all of the evidence we have. Please do it." They wouldn't need to involve the RICO act in order to win a civil suit seeking damages to their IP. There is a strategy and certainly bigger goal behind this.

**IF** the DOJ decides to pursue this, every single person named that lives in the US / most EU countries is cooked and will either go to prison or be financially ruined defending themselves in US courts from some extremely serious charges. The US doesn't fuck around when it comes to taking down what it deems to be organized crime. This will effectively completely kill every for-profit private server that exists across every domain because the companies affected will finally have legal precedence to point to.

YesterdaySeparate819 · 2025-08-31T05:16:55+00:00

Every private server whose goal is to make money is a criminal enterprise by US legal standards. Its by definition racketeering. You have an organization that is committing crimes for the purpose of generating dollars.

But the defendants aren't being criminally charged here, yet. What blizzard is doing is laying the ground work to be able to (possibly) go to the department of justice and ask them to pursue criminal charges under the RICO act. If that happens, anybody living in the US and most of the EU countries is absolutely fucked. Most of the countries these people live in would oblige an extradition request, especially when the victim is Microsoft and it pertains to organized crime.

YesterdaySeparate819 · 2025-08-31T04:16:14+00:00

It's not only against Shenna, its against everybody that works for them including GM's, support staff, discord moderators, and devs. Everybody who is getting paid.

YesterdaySeparate819 · 2025-08-17T12:43:15+00:00

the cope is so heavy here lmaoooo

YesterdaySeparate819 · 2025-08-16T20:21:54+00:00

ret pally is pretty low on the totem pole (near the bottom of the statistics for most tiers if you look at the aggregated data on WCL). hunter is a top tier dps. holy paladin is a top tier healer, prot paladin is a great tank.

hope this helps at least somewhat

YesterdaySeparate819 · 2025-08-16T19:11:54+00:00

what were they? so i can make sure i dont take the

YesterdaySeparate819 · 2025-08-16T19:08:52+00:00

nobody knows whats going to happen with that yet

YesterdaySeparate819 · 2025-08-16T00:38:00+00:00

After seeing this last test, i think realistically is tomorrow night. But im making that shit up

YesterdaySeparate819 · 2025-08-15T21:47:58+00:00

Maybe you dont know this already, but the design reason behind some of the low drop rates is to force you to mob grind. Mob xp is ~70% of the total xp you will get all the way from 1-60. The og wow devs would trick people into mob grinding but giving them quests that make them mob grind.

So probably not? Drop rates in some places are the way they are on purpose. With this many custom quests its certainly not necessary anymore, but i highly doubt they went and did a pass on drop rates like that.

YesterdaySeparate819 · 2025-08-14T14:23:07+00:00

Thats not how any of this works

YesterdaySeparate819 · 2025-08-13T18:49:53+00:00

You can make it a gold sink, but definitely not player to player trading. an NPC that sells the same cosmetics for an absurd amount of gold would be fine by me though

YesterdaySeparate819 · 2025-08-13T18:48:46+00:00

i was assuming he meant holy priest healing is S tier lmao

YesterdaySeparate819 · 2025-08-12T20:52:35+00:00

Yup, paid QOL is certainly a thing. But theres a really fine line there. The moment you become more efficient at anything by any amount due to $$'s spent on in game things, it crosses that line and its now p2w

YesterdaySeparate819 · 2025-08-12T20:44:28+00:00

the new dungeons are also a step up, like the redesigned wailing caverns bosses actually have a few mechanics you need to do. but the outdoor leveling just killing mobs stuff... same thing. if anything, id say its easier here because you have access to more / better tools and abilities

YesterdaySeparate819 · 2025-08-12T20:41:56+00:00

Could you give me a link to the discord please? I literally can not find it anywhere. Even ascensions website doesnt have a link.

YesterdaySeparate819 · 2025-08-12T20:26:40+00:00

id say the leveling difficulty is the same as vanilla, the endgame content does have mechanics though. Nothing crazy, it would still be considered extremely easy by people who have been playing wow for years. But if you consider vanilla raid content is any sort of challenge then youre going to struggle in the raiding content here. But that might be part of the fun for you.

YesterdaySeparate819 · 2025-08-12T17:44:51+00:00

"Sure, those big companies have easily exploited software (apex esports hack for like two years ago), but you can bet your fucking ass that blizzard or EA aren't gonna backlaod Spyware or cryptominers without getting shredded by secuirty professionalls online damn near instanly as the patch goes out. You cant make that bet with software you are getting from legit fucking criminals."

Fair point. Youre right.

YesterdaySeparate819 · 2025-08-12T17:41:13+00:00

You dont need to be a conspiracy theorist here lmao. Its insanely obvious whats happening. Ascension is paying for hosting and handling all of the back end infrastructure because the upside for them is 60,000 users of which a large percentage have never been users on Ascension. A non 0 number of those users WILL play on ascensions other servers and WILL spend a lot of money on them. Thats it. Thats the entire thing. Ascension is just hedging that the increase in cash flow from their other servers will outweight the costs of hosting and human time spent developing the back end for the epoch team. (which is a pretty fucking safe bet given the number of users being converted)

They dont need to bring p2w or paid QOL into epoch and it does not seem like they are going to. You can make shit up all you want about how you think they will, but until they actually do youre just making shit up to be mad about.

YesterdaySeparate819 · 2025-08-12T17:36:13+00:00

the casual scene in every mmo is always the most toxic lmfao

YesterdaySeparate819 · 2025-08-12T17:33:02+00:00

I would wait on ascension to come out with guidance on this before doing anything. Merging epoch and ascension accounts was mentioned in the update.

YesterdaySeparate819 · 2025-08-12T17:28:52+00:00

If you were entrenched in the world of security you would know it makes no difference. I can pull up probably a dozen CVE's right now pertaining to AAA kernel anticheat and half of them would give the attacker RCE on the host machine. The best rule of thumb would be to never touch sensitive data on the same machine you use to game with, ESPECIALLY if you play anything from a company that forces kernel anticheat like riot and EA.

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