Blizzard shutting down Nostalrius, popular WoW private server
I used to be involved with this sort of thing, and it&#x27;s actually pretty interesting stuff. There are enormous open source projects, operating largely out of public sight, that have recreated the WoW server backend in most of its glory. The lower-level content works quite well these days, though a lot of complex raid scripts are missing or broken.<p>This one is probably the most popular: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;TrinityCore&#x2F;TrinityCore" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;TrinityCore&#x2F;TrinityCore</a><p>It&#x27;s pretty rare for Blizzard to go after these companies in court, but it&#x27;s happened here and there. Look up &quot;Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. v. Alyson Reeves&quot; if you&#x27;re curious what such a lawsuit looks like! Every patch since Lich King, though, has attacked these reverse engineers on the technical front by adding layers upon layers of obfuscation to the protocol. That&#x27;s had some effect, and many private servers have stuck with the old Burning Crusade or Lich King releases.