Free To Play MMORGPs Or WoW Private Servers

Free to play MMORGPs or WoW private servers?

What do you think? Is it worth playing on WoW private servers as they usually don't provide as much quality as official ones, obviously. There are many private servers that are being created every day, including vanilla ones. These servers can provide a high-quality, almost blizzlike experience. They all eventually fail. There are also many unique, free-to-play MMORPGs. What do you guys prefer to play on? Playing on non-official WoW servers or checking something new? Thanks in advance.

I play on two wow private servers, Nostarlrius which just opened this weekend, Vanilla WoW server, over 2,500 people on when I log in nightly (per faction) so far.

Dalaran wow is a WoTLK-progressive server that hosts approximately 1K people every night.

both are very, very close to retail. Both are very close to retail.

How do you know the server population? Serverlist101 If i may ask, rarely have I seen a private server that can hold 5k people. That is why im curious.

I also started playing Nostalrius 2 days back...I like it so far, but i doubt i'll manage to get through another vanilla 1-60 grind again.

Nostalrius looks very sweet.

Yes, I've heard of those new Vanilla servers. They seem to be doing a great job. We'll see though. We'll see. But I am thinking about Wotlk. I play Vanilla most of the time and when I search for best WoW expansions, it seems that most people love Wotlk. I thought I'd give it a try. I appreciate your response.

Edit: I also agree with Nerfme and potpie2004, not sure I'm having time and patience for Vanilla/BC grind, as I used to have:)

What exactly are your goals? To support new content, I would personally play on the official servers.

If you want WoW, play on a WoW private server. If you want to try something else... gah... there's a lot out there to recommend, and I can recommend my favourites, but no idea what your tastes are.

One thing you NEED to know about WoW private servers is most of them have high XP gain rates. I spent many hours searching for a good WoW server to find one that was close to official, but also had my favourite expansions - TBC/WotLK. An active community is also important... who wants a dead WoW server? The one that matched these requirements for me was Eternal-Wow

The Genesis server can be used to gain 2x PVE. Although population is low, it can spike during primetime. It's enough to keep the AH functioning well. Servers are very stable and never had a problem, except when they were getting DDOS.

This is my main problem. WoW has a very high level of quality, even on private server. It's that polished. But I think nothing is like playing on original. This is why I asked the question. Should I give up on playing WoW (I don't have the money to pay for it; I suppose I could, but I know that a lot of people are unhappy about the last expansions). Or should I find a free MMORPG I can play that is at least as good as WoW? Thanks for your reply. At the moment, I'm mainly thinking about Wotlk. Seems that's everyones favourite expansion.

This is a very interesting topic. Also, where is this server located and since I am in Canada would it be laggy at all?