A Helpful Guide Through Our New Digital Age

There are some “killer” online Massive Multiplayer Online games, or MMOs for short, such as World of Warcraft (WoW), City of Heroes, Eve Online and some not so well known ones like LineageII and RagnarokOnline. These games can be fun, challenging and take up a good deal of time just to get a level. Leveling can be a good deal of fun in itself but what if I told you you could spend about 1/100th the time it takes to get to level 60 in WoW and all you have to do is just change out a few lines in a file.

This is where Private servers come in. Private servers are hosted by people who have a decent interenet connection and have taken the time to find and download a private server, which are put out by either third party groups who think servers should be free or by leaked server code such as in the case with WoW. I’ve spent a good deal of time playing both public and private servers to get a good grasp of what you should expect if you are the one of many, who are mostly foreign, who play on a private server on a daily basis.

Lets start with the pros of private servers. You don’t have to pay! (unless the server offers great gear for a small price which they boast helps keep the server running). This is probably the lure of most foreign countries primarily South America, Russia, and a few European countries. Another reason you’ll enjoy playing on a private server is the free starting gear like money, mounts and a boat load of bags. Most private servers will give out a greater yeald of money per kill and yet keep the costs the same in stores so you’ll be able to buy just about everything. What I enjoy the most about private servers is the increased exp per kill, which means you’ll level up to even 10 levels on the first thing you kill. Why so much exp? Well most people who play private servers play for the Player vs. Player, or PvP. The faster you get your guy to his max the better the server for these addicts. It then just comes down to getting the best gear your player can have. Which can take a while less you’re playing a server with has vendors that sell nearly top grade gear which just requires you getting enough money to buy your gear.

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