Would you if you could run a private server?

As most people know there are games out there that have private servers for other games.

Well would you run one of GW if you could? This is not about morality or any other such BS but a simple question.

If there was any way to run a private server of GW would you?

Now for my answer.

I sure as hell would. Mostly due to the fact from most of the screwups anet has implemented in game, and I wouldnt care if it was an offline server or an online server.

So what about the rest of you guys would you.

Too many friends on the real servers to do that. If i had unlimited modding ability on it though, I would definitely have fun with it.

Edit: Actually, I wouldn't. Modding games very quickly kills the enjoyment.

If the real servers go belly up like auto assault, yes. I want my toons.

Sounds wonderfull, you mean i get to play with even less people online and get updates even less often, and all for the same monethly price? sign me up.

/sarcasm


Private servers are pretty much only for people who dont want to pay a monthly fee, so it would be soooo useless to have one for this game. the only other reason for private servers is for when the real game servers get shut down so people can still play the game after the company stops support.

doesnt work like that, youd have to start over, you couldnt keep your characters cause they are on anets server

yeah, but since it's private servers and all, i expect shortcuts will exist. heck. even textmods will be fine, as long as i can keep/ recreate my toons.

No. For the simple reason that I've played on some private servers for certain games and they will never be as good supported as the original, never have that much players to play/compete with and will never run as smooth.

Only reason I could think off is if you wanted to test out some things (dunno what that would that you cant do in the original), or trying to mod the game.

hmmm guild wars pve without a-net's horridly pitiful excuse for balance (NERF NERF NERF everything except what's actually horridly overpowered in PvE, then give that a buff).... yeah, sign me up for a server download. same cost, without the game constantly degenerating.

I ran private server in WoW for some time mainly to test few gamemaster commands, talk about unstable playing :]...

Private Server would need quite a powerful machine to keep it from getting crashed.

Depends, if i could mod things to how i want then yes.

I'd love the be able to give the AI my ideas of how they should work,or be able to spawn weapons/armor/dyes so i can make nice combos , just for screenies

Skills however i wouldn't change that much, i mean sure we all bite izzys head off when he changes something but , he does have a really hard job, the thing i would do tho is if certain things are been suggested to change to this and that, i would change them to see how good it works.

So if people are saying a skill that is 5/.25/20 is overpowered but by changing it to 5/1/20 it would be balanced i would like to see those changes especially if Anet isn't changing it on live server, they probably did change it in the dev server to see if indeed that would make the skill more balanced.

So in other words i would play the dev :P

I don't think I would.

As long as GW servers are up, there's no reson to unless you want to pirate. Once they are down, the community will disperse and I'd just hope they'd modify the content first so that it would work as a single player game.

Most people don't have the hardware, bandwidth or knowledge to do something like this. That said, if I could legally run a private server, I would. If I could get updates and support from Anet, I'd be all over it. I've run a lot of FPS servers in the past and it's fun for me. But I am a geek and proud of it.

If it was legal and I could do some moding, yes.

My main playing would still be on the Anet server. I would use my private server to set up all kinds of crazy stuff and maybe even try to design my own explorables.

i would, and it wouldn't have a pvp side!

Private server for this game? Nah. Only plus to it, would be no bots. Thats about it.

Yeah, id love it if i could do things like pick mobs for explorables and stuff like that. Having the same thing would get kinda stale. Even doing my own skill balances would be kinda fun =D

it would be a bad idea.

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/pc/fbi-...tes-216078.php

if they add shorcuts why bother even playing. once you add cheats the fun is all over

The communities in private servers are like 2x or more worse than the real servers. The net baddies hang out there like haxxors or people who want every high lvl nows! There are even a few botters on private servers. But one of the good things about private servers is that if it's for one of those Korean games that take like a year to release the same update for the international/English version you get the update quick.

I would'nt use a GW private server because Guild Wars is already easy as it is and stuff does'nt take that long to get through, except titles.

I think you missed the point where it was said that if it was legal

well, some people have self control and can design a character to specifications and then play naturally after that... (specifications being the state of their anet characters)