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.

  • Zexks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    18 days ago

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

    • Moose@moose.bestEnglish
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      18 days 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.

  • MNByChoice@midwest.socialEnglish
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    18 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?

    • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      18 days ago

      Install wasn’t too bad, I used a mix of chatgpt and install documentation when I get stuck.

      One problem I had was that I was aiming for burning crusade, but and chatgpt told me that Azerothcore supported burning crusade.

      So after getting the server up and learning this, I had to find a wotlk client.

      The choose of expansion was arbitrary, I just didn’t want modern wow.

      There are some data files you have to supply, but they can just be downloaded from github and the guide even links to it.

      I’m not sure about resources, but for a small instance, I think it’s pretty light. I’ve only just installed it on a i5-3470 cpu server, and it seems to play fine.

      I’ve only played for like 5 minutes as I’ve not had time to play and monitor how heavy it is.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    ChatGPT was mentioned and now the thread is all about AI being good/bad, as usual.

    Anyway, I’m glad you got your server going - hope you enjoy your flight!

      • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        16 days ago

        Not gonna go back and search for “AI” but when I read the thread hours ago there were multiple back and forth comments criticizing/defending use of ChatGPT (which is what I meant by “AI” in this case), and this was not at all the point of OP’s post.

    • teawrecks@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      17 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
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          17 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.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        17 days ago

        I remember when “research” actually meant something. Now it just means "throw it into the black box and get some info that has a 50/50 chance of being completely made up "

        • Fingolfinz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          17 days ago

          It’s all become quite convoluted now with all the other shit out there but they do actually serve well as a research tool in a more intuitive way than a search engine can

        • jfrnz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          17 days ago

          You can ask CharGPT for sources. TBH it’s often a much better search engine than Google, although that’s not hard nowadays.

        • Zozano@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          16 days ago

          Oh boy, I sure do love the colloquialization of language and how those who were raised on a monostatic definition get upset about their favourite words becoming dynamic.

    • biscuit@lemdro.idEnglish
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      17 days ago

      The latest LLM’s are pretty damn good as a research assistant - that was its original purpose. Using chatgpt as your first go at researching a new subject (like self hosting) is perfectly valid.