I'm a newb on the block I admit to it, but I have a question - why didn't anyone ( because I checked for this regularly... not here tho >.>) just set up a privet server of the game and make it run like that? Before this possibility arose obviously, I'd much rather see a server that runs with NCsoft's blessing. ( even though I hate then with a venomous passion )
http://www.returnofreckoning.com/index.phpWarhammer seams to have done just that and EA doesn't seam to care.
And before people say NCsoft is rigerouse about these things - no it isn't, in the times od darkness and youth.... aaaround 2007-8 or so, me and my friends played Lineage 2 on privet servers, and the amounts of those servers were UNCANNY, I had a metric shitton of servers to pick from, high rates, low rates, custom events, custom PVP it was a hassle just to pick one, and NCsoft was either wholly ignorant of these ( which I kinda doubt, there were thousands) or quite frankly didn't care.
Was this due to technical issues, or...?