Does anyone remember when Warcraft 3 was in beta and got leaked? Pirates created an emulated Battle.net that could work with the beta assets and had matchmaking, ladder, etc. working.
Hundreds of thousands played. Blizzard released patches in beta that would, for example, spawn infernals to attack your town hall if it detected you were on the emulated server. This reminds me of that. Blizzard lost their battle, by the way, and people pirated WC3 all the way until release.
Hundreds of thousands played. Blizzard released patches in beta that would, for example, spawn infernals to attack your town hall if it detected you were on the emulated server. This reminds me of that. Blizzard lost their battle, by the way, and people pirated WC3 all the way until release.