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.

  • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    2 hours ago

    I haven’t played wow in a long time… Classic, TBC, then wotlk, cata, then took a break from it, came back a loooooong time later and just… Didnt enjoy it.

    I would definitely do something like this to play with family and friends, going to have to check it out!

  • Zexks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    5 hours ago

    FYI there are free wow instances out there if you want other humans involved. Turtle wow and ascension.

    • Moose@moose.bestEnglish
      11·
      2 hours ago

      Turtle WoW is great, I’m dreading Blizzard shutting it down though. I’m hoping they avoid them but I feel their upcoming remastered client might attract too much attention.

  • piefood@feddit.onlineEnglish
    3·
    6 hours ago

    I have one as well, and it’s so much fun. It’s pretty much just for my SO and me, but sometimes I have friends join. It’s super cool having GM commands and all that.

    Good work, I hope you have fun with it!

  • drspod@lemmy.mlEnglish
    31·
    6 hours ago

    Was the server officially released by Blizzard or was it reverse-engineered and built by the community?

  • MNByChoice@midwest.socialEnglish
    8·
    8 hours 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?

    • lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      I run one on a 8 gb debian server from hetzner and it seems rock solid so far from what i can tell with the amount of traffic i am likely to have (just friends get an account). Running azerothcore and not trinitycore. Setup was very easy.

      Quests are really just entries in a mysql database so im sure there are open source quests you can just inject into the database. or you can make your own :)

    • Kirp123@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      8 hours ago

      I did it like 10 or so years back? It was pretty easy to be completely honest and didn’t require too many resources, at least not if you’re the only one using the server. You just run the server locally and then use the client to connect to that server. That’s basically it.

      And no, the game comes with all the quests and everything, you don’t need to really do anything else. The downsides is that you’ll be locked out of a bunch of content like dungeons and raids since those require groups of 5 or more players.

      • SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 hours ago

        I have read that modern servers have np. Bots you can add so you can do dungeons and stuff. I haven’t tried myself. Would love to find a guide on how to set up a Linux host.

    • r00ty@kbin.life
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      6 hours ago

      Trinitycore has a guide https://trinitycore.info/ if you follow it properly it will result in a working server. Any time I’ve seen someone have a problem following it, they either missed a step by mistake, or tried to go off on a tangent, configuring it for their own needs during install/setup.

      First make it work with the instructions, and once it is working, then tinker with it :P

  • lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    21·
    5 hours ago

    I am also running my own instance of azerothcraft on a vps so that i can play with some friends. Love it so far but summertime means there is not too much activity yet. Im running with autoscale mod and it is quite fun to run some of the lower lvl instances at lvl 60 and it is actually a challenge (yes i capped the level at 60 because that is what i know)

    Anything in particular you like to do with your awesome gm powers? (moonfire spam wins)

    • SEND_BUTTPLUG_PICS@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      I self-hosted a TBC server for short period and I liked being able to crank up the default run speed and increase the drop rate of purple items.