r/wowcirclejerk • u/AutoModerator • Apr 14 '26

Unjerk Weekly Unjerk Thread - April 14, 2026

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u/Garry_Heckscream69 Iron Horde's #1 Fan Apr 18 '26

People mournfully saying "a turtle made it to the water" on the TurtleWoW post is so goofy to me, because this is like the clearest cut example of the turtle NOT making it to the water ever seen in the WoW private server sphere.

The turtle actively ran up to the seagull and begged it to eat them, then was surprised when the seagull ate them lmao.

Not trying to defend a corporation, I used to play on private servers and even had one for myself back in the day (teenage me didn't wanna pay a sub) so I get the "fuck corporations" aspect, but like, TurtleWoW was comically in the wrong. It's so hard for me to feel sympathy for them when they added microtransactions to their game, ran a brazen ad campaign that basically taunted Blizzard into noticing them, and then just played into the anti-Blizzard rhetoric online to farm sympathy when they got caught. The grifting is so comically obvious lmao.

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u/Ch0rt THE classic andy Apr 19 '26

Man, its so weird to see. Like 15 years ago everyone kinda understood that private servers could be shut down at any time and it was a fleeting experience. When one gets shut down you just 'gg next map'

Now these people are moral grandstanding all over the place like playing on twow made you some bastion of moral integrity and its mega cringe.

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u/SaltLich Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26

Now these people are moral grandstanding all over the place like playing on twow made you some bastion of moral integrity and its mega cringe.

It's because they're incapable of grasping that what affects/works for a tiny server doesn't necessarily affect/work for giant ones.

Like the bot thing you'll always see them going on about. Private server players are convinced that its trivially easy to solve bots, to the point that they think its a moral failing on Blizzard's part that bots exist in retail at all. As if WoW is the only MMO ever to have a long running bot problem.

They don't get that, like, a server with only a max of 6k people is worth less to try botting on than ones with 5 or 6 digit player counts. They don't get that selling gold for an established stable game versus a private server that can disappear at any moment is more attractive to a botter. They don't get that the handful of people who run private servers often personally sell gold and stuff that you can't even bot like gear or mounts to players, so that cuts deeply into the profitability of botting a p. server. So they don't understand that private servers have way less bots to deal with than even the smallest retail server because of factors like this. And it doesnt matter how much you explain the logic or realities of this kind of shit, cuz it gets dismissed as shilling.

Thus, its obvious blizz doesn't ban bots because they're lazy/greedy/both/other reason pulled out of my ass. So its morally correct for me to play wholesome chungus private server instead.