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‘It seemed like a crazy idea’: A tech expert got the inside story of how Blizzard saved big bucks by selling 10,000 old WoW servers to fans via a charity auction — and one of them even ended up as a wedding gift

While flying to SC23 (the 2023 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis) in Denver, Patrick Kennedy from Serve The Home had a chance encounter with a man on the plane who shared an intriguing story about Blizzard‘s decision to auction off its servers to fans.

World of Warcraft launched in November 2004 and was hugely popular – and even now boasts over a million daily logins. Each player’s character is tied to a specific realm, requiring servers that track the state of all players and NPCs continuously.


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Blizzard will let you play Diablo IV again before it launches in June

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Blizzard will open another trial opportunity before the launch of Diablo IV. Blizzard called it the “Server Stress Test”, which began at 3:00 a.m. local time on May 13 and lasted for 48 hours. It was open to players of PC, PS4/5, Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One. All platforms can play cross-platform and share progress. In addition, game console players can also experience single-player multiplayer cooperation mode.

The server stress test can play the five professions of Barbarian, Druid, Necromancer, Rogue and Magician, and open the prologue and the complete content of Chapter 1. However, character progress made during Early Access and Public Beta will not transfer over to Server Stress Test, and character progress during Server Stress Test will not carry over to…


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Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard in a deal valued $68.7 billion

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CptPower, 20 hours agoMan Diablo 1 or 2 or 3 or Grim Dawn were too and did no cost monthly fee to play.
Only WoW w… more
LOL. No, Diablo games aren’t MMORPGs.

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OfficialTRider, 15 hours agoConsidering HALO, Gears, Flight Sim, Sea of Thieves and Forza are some of the best multiplayer… moreI have seen people complain about Halo, haven’t heard anything from Gears so idk, Flight Sim is mostly singleplayer, Sea of Thieves is a Co-op game, Forza is singleplayer mostly aswell.

So maybe CoD will be a better singleplayer game then? But that’s what im not worried about anyways.

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GAMIR3DH, 18 Jan 2022Microsoft will kill CoD for sure.
No more fun allowed anymore.
Considering HALO, Gears,…


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