By emulator, I mean private server emulator. It all wouldn't fit in the topic title. :P
I'm just curious on where BYOND stands on a variety of subtopics related to private server development. Such as the whole legal or not-legal debate, what they think of people who create and distribute these emulators and such.
I see no problem with this whole development scene. I am also an avid visitor to a popular MMO site (which will remain nameless). I have also tried my hand at "releasing" a few things for these networks, in various languages like C++ and Java. Though I'm only 16, I consider myself pretty well educated on a few programming languages because of the forums I visit daily.
So restated: what does BYOND as a community think of the private server scene? Please leave a response! :)
- Kirone
* Sorry if this post isn't allowed. I don't see anything in the rules about it.
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 Mar 10 2010, 4:03 pm
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Private servers are a neat way for people to mess around without ruining the experience for actual customers. Unless the people running them are being overly obnoxious by mocking whatever company they're ripping off or just plain charging people, I don't really care about it.
Keep in mind though, people who play or run servers who don't actually own the game are a cancer to the gaming industry. Even those updating with the latest patches and expansions are mooching off the paying customers who fund the development of such. | |
Typically discussion of emulators is fine, while linking to ROM sites not so much. Emulators after all can just as easily run homebrew.
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Lummox JR wrote:
Typically discussion of emulators is fine, while linking to ROM sites not so much. Emulators after all can just as easily run homebrew. I think the OP was talking less of console emulators and more of MMO server emulators, to run unofficial private servers. I don't know much of the topic though, so I can't say for sure. | |
I ran a private WoW server a while back, it was good fun - I got to see how a MMO worked, and more importantly, I got to see how a real collaborative project worked. I thought it was pretty neat.
However, a lot of people here are going to jump right on you with the illegalities. They've got ridiculously strong opinions about it and blah blah blah. There was a topic about it a while back, and it pretty much devolved into a flame war.