metagame wrote:I never said it was okay, but it's a fact we have to deal with, and we have to look past it to be able to play vanilla WoW.
At least Elysium open sourced their core.
Ultimately it comes down to deception and untrustworthiness. I'm pretty sure everyone realizes money is needed to run the servers (even though I don't think the developers have been active nearly enough to justify a "salary", let alone for Shenna, who did fuck all basically).
If donations are not enough, there are legitimate ways to make money other than deceiving your community. Yes, people will bitch that shit like selling ingame pets, tabards, mounts (that weren't obtainable by playing) is not blizzlike, but a balance needs to be struck.
In short, don't fuck with people because they will fuck you back always.