and there i was, thinking the last bit of sense had dripped out of the interwebs, good post! :) i do see dangers in separating emotion from reason though, sure it leads to problems with emotionally scarred people but too much reason and this place would be about as fun as the contents of my sink

im sorry maybe i was unclear: they get to keep their servers and their, in my honest opinion, AWESOME way of making games and telling stories, however, with releasing the bits that made all that awesomeness, free creators could make content to give away for free (because the joy of creating is reward itself) back to blizzard and they get to choose what they put in it. Themselves say they wish they had more content to put in and people are standing outside the wall with tons of ideas they'd love to share. Look at the UI again, it was released free and people have been developing it for years eventually leading to products that made it into the game. What do they gain by holding on to marketshares and stuff, it was the playhouse for the children that made that market possible to begin with?? sorry i seem to have lost my concentration, luckily my government is working on building a camp for people like me

But the pirate servers are already here, and the pirates will keep reinventing the wheel that was sold to them, wouldn't it save all of us a lot of time just accepting that there will always be order(blizz server) and chaos(pirate server) and if they'd just communicate more (the current communication cap is the user interface, limited by the players ability to write Lua or ability to find people good at writing Lua) we'd build a better playhouse for the children

I still dont understand why blizzard cant release the WoW engine as open source, I mean if I just want to "steal" the game I'd pirate it and run it on a pirateserver, I wanna play the game however (interaction between people all over the world) and to do that I need the infrastructure they're selling (Physical servers built by people paid SHIT and maintained by devs standing in a sea of fire of corporate interest) Now.. if they'd release the code, free-devs could code whatever idea they come up with and present it the way the custom UI structure of WoW already works, incorporating new and novel ideas to the existing system without having giant penises all over the place the way it ends up on the pirateservers or games that fail at understanding how humans work /rant off, ex-WoW addict

what happens when the member after #2147483648 joins?

the author of this news item has just copypasted the ending of george orwells famous book "1984"

Install went great on my laptop as well, and as always when theres been a problem, the solution is never further than a couple of google searches away.

...I still think measuring microchanges in air density is the way to go!

time to get 1984 as obligatory reading before anyone gets a say in the subject

to foss world domination :)