Are World of Warcraft Private Servers Legal?

Is making real world money on World of Warcraft legal and if it is, is it ethical? With a game as popular as World of Warcraft there will always be people who see money in it. Some players offer their services to play World of Warcraft for days to build a complete character with experience and assets. When the character is complete they sell the character for a lot of money. The person who bought the character does not have to go trough all the "boring" first levels and has an instant strong character to play with. Other players make money by creating add on's and other modifications is this bad? Is it legal? and is it ethical?

Well you can have some question about the ethical part, but almost all off these kind of activities are pretty harmless and it can even encourage more people to play World of Warcraft and of course pay the monthly fee for it.

But what about World of Warcraft Private Servers?

Most World of Warcraft private servers are in a legally vaguely defined area. Some of these World of Warcraft private servers are just created to take income away from the original game makers, in this case Blizzard. They conduct illegal practices just to lead gamers to their servers and away from the official World of Warcraft private servers.

There is however a completely different group of World of Warcraft private servers that are perfectly legal. They are almost all set up by serious World of Warcraft players who like to create a world that they have designed and where they have control over every little detail of the game. They can for example make the leveling easier or earn gold much quicker. In fact there are World of Warcraft private servers for everything you can imagine.

These World of Warcraft private servers are legal and you can try them out if you want to, the creators are just World of Warcraft enthusiasts who have created a world that they have designed and like to share it with other game enthusiasts. You can try it out because this is legal as long as you have payed for the original game. There are many of these World of Warcraft private servers available and you just need to do a little search online to find one you would like to try. With some of these servers you can even switch your officials World of Warcraft game over to these servers, which is not difficult at all. Some of the private servers are free, with others you need to pay a monthly fee, just as with the official game.

So as you can see there are ways to make money with games like World of Warcraft and most of these kind of activities are completely legal, and if its ethical? Well that is something you need to decide for your self. As far as we are concerned just have a whole lot of fun with World of Warcraft private servers.