Are World of Warcraft private servers illegal?
I’m sorry to say, that it is indeed illegal. Though its more likely that any company would go after the makers or hosts than a player, it is illegal to connect to private server also. It has to do with the use of their software. Emulators / private servers are against Blizzards TOS. If you have an active account with WoW, you’ve agreed with this the first time you logged in and the first time you logon after each patch. Your account can be banned for playing on a private server. You might want to weigh whether losing access to your characters is worth it. Running (making) emulator / private server is actually illegal. Blizzard is one of the only game companies to win court cases against the operators of private servers. Even if you don’t have a WoW account, connecting to a private server is illegal. Q u o t e: Only Blizzard or its licensees have the right to host the Game. You may not host or provide matchmaking services for the Game, or intercept, emulate or redirect the proprietary c
