The title really says it all, but I’m self hosting world of Warcraft wrath of the lich king.

I’m just so shocked that it all works to be honest. It’s blowing my mind still.

I always want to play classic wow, but I play so infrequently that it’s not worth paying a subscription.

It never really occurred to me that I could just host my own server until chatgpt recommended that when I was researching things to self hosting.

It’s not public yet as my upload speeds are too slow.

I think I’m going to set the server up on my laptop so I can play wow while on my 14 hour flight coming up.

I’ve always played the game solo anyway due to my casualness.

    • cygnus@lemmy.caEnglish
      81·
      6 days ago

      Oh wow, thanks for the recommendation. This looks perfect.

    • teawrecks@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      21·
      6 days ago

      As someone who believes LFG was the beginning of the end of MMOs, I can’t tell if I despise this or if I’m impressed.

        • teawrecks@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          41·
          5 days ago

          Looking for Group. As someone else said, the ability to click “queue for dungeon”, be dropped into an instance with a bunch of random, and proceed to faceroll the dungeon without any thought or patience required.

          The fun part of old school MMOs was the journey, not the destination. Modern MMOs have all optimized the journey out by making everything doable without ever being dependent on another player.

        • dubyakay@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          5 days ago

          I think they mean the automated party queueing and match making systems, which takes out the social aspects from MMOs altogether.

      • teawrecks@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        4·
        6 days ago

        I know exactly what you’re feeling, and I totally get it. Still, if executed well, I’m at least impressed that they pulled it off. I would have sworn such an experience wasn’t possible.

        But yeah, I’m not interested in having artificial multiplayer interactions.

    • MNByChoice@midwest.socialEnglish
      11·
      6 days ago

      While I have heard of people doing this a decade, I have never looked into it.

      How was the install and setup process?
      How is the resource consumption of the server?
      At one point it seemed one had to supply their own quests. Are there open source quests available?
      Anything cool I didn’t ask about?