“Blizzard Leisure is constant its campaign towards non-public World of Warcraft servers,” experiences the gaming information website Aftermath:
The corporate filed a brand new lawsuit on Friday in a California courtroom towards the makers of Mission Ascension, alleging copyright infringement, Digital Millennium Copyright Act violations, and different claims. Blizzard Leisure claims that Mission Ascension is a “profitable technique to exploit and revenue from the recognition of the WoW recreation expertise,” in response to the grievance, obtained by Aftermath. Blizzard Leisure’s legal professionals say within the grievance that Mission Ascension purports to have “over 1,000,000 gamers.” Legal professionals write that the builders have “distributed (and are persevering with to distribute) hundreds of thousands of pirated copies of Blizzard’s copyrighted WoW recreation software program.” In addition they allege that Mission Ascension’s servers are hosted on Russian “bulletproof” servers with Aeza Group, an organization that was sanctioned in 2025 “for its position in supporting cybercriminal exercise focusing on victims in the USA and world wide,” per a U.S. Division of Treasury press launch… Mission Ascension lets gamers mix items of World of Warcraft’s totally different courses to construct distinctive characters. It is free-to-play, however gamers should purchase in-game foreign money, Donation Factors, to purchase issues in-game, equivalent to cosmetics and expertise boosts. Blizzard Leisure’s legal professionals assert that Mission Ascension has made “hundreds of thousands of {dollars} from the sale of Donation Factors….” Blizzard Leisure efficiently sued a preferred World of Warcraft server known as Turtle Wow final yr. The undertaking had been working since 2018, taking donations from gamers for the free-to-play server. Either side introduced in April 2026 that they’d reached a settlement after Blizzard Leisure was awarded a everlasting injunction to close down Turtle WoW. The main points of the settlement weren’t made public. Turtle WoW was shut down for good shortly after Might 15; gamers gathered on-line to mourn the tip of the server.
