In a recent post ↗, I showed how to set up a AzerothCore server with PlayerBots on Windows. In this post, we're going to do exactly the same thing, but this time on a Linux machine. On Ubuntu 24.04 to be more specific. Requirements On Windows, it took forever to install all the required apps. […]

In this video, I’m getting personal. We all remember the "Golden Era" of World of Warcraft. Not just for the raids or the loot, but for the community. Before social media was everywhere, WoW was our town square. It was where we shared our lives, our struggles, and our triumphs on TeamSpeak and Ventrilo. But time moves on. Our guildies grew up, priorities shifted, and reality took us away from Azeroth.

Today I uploaded another video to YouTube. One where I show some things you can run alongside your private World of Warcraft server. These additions are great when you want to have friends or anybody else play on your server. The video is right here below. I'm still working on a video where I talk more in details what you can do with PlayerBots. That's coming really soon, so keep an eye out for that.

The previous posts I did on building your own WoW server are very popular on this website, according to the visitor's statistics. But they're not for everybody, since not everybody has a Linux machine, or the willingness to work with Linux. That's why this post is especially for all the Windows users out there. We're going to be building our own, private, World of Warcraft server with PlayerBots, using AzerothCore, ON WINDOWS!

In a previous post, we built a private World of Warcraft server running the Wrath of the Lich King expansion with TrinityCore. This time we're building another WotLK server including PlayerBots with CMangos. After having played around with these PlayerBots I was really pleased with their behavior. I definately prefer them over the NPCBots we […]

This post is an addition to something I posted recently: https://www.ustoopia.nl/games/build-a-private-wow-wotlk-server-with-npc-bots-on-ubuntu-22-04/ So, you have your own private WoW server running now, and you would like to invite some friends to come and play with you on your realm. That is exactly when this tutorial comes in handy! To streamline the process of creating a user […]

This tutorial guides you through setting up a private World of Warcraft server for the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, using TrinityCore on Ubuntu 22.04 with NPC bots. It provides step-by-step instructions, starting from server prerequisites to editing config files and dealing with the databases. The author shares a personal connection with WoW, experiences with the game, and the motivation behind creating the server, highlighting the importance of the game's social aspect and how innovation from the community has made such setups possible. The tutorial includes detailed technical steps and additional tools like Supervisor to manage the server processes.

Here's a recording of a lecture by Jordan Peterson on the subject of: Are video games like World of Warcraft bad for you?

And with BFA I mean the new Word of Warcraft expansion Battle for Azeroth. This new expansion will be released exactly one week from now. The last expansion, Legion, was one of the best expansions we've seen over the years. I've enjoyed it very much. But to be honest, I stopped playing World of Warcraft […]

Today I received an e-mail from Blizzard informing me that I have been selected to participate in the alpha test version for the upcoming expansion Battle for Azeroth. I hope this means that I will automatically also get access to the beta version that will be released soon. I'm not going to try the alpha […]

Today was a good day for me in the World of Warcraft. I got my achievement Ahead of the Curve: Argus the Unmaker by killing Argus in Antorus on Heroic difficulty. That means I also received the awesome mount that goes perfect with my transmog. Many thanks to Laurens and the people in his guild […]

Blizzard announced at Blizzcon 2017 that a new World of Warcraft called Battle for Azeroth expansion will be released somewhere next year. Awesome introduction cinematic, as always. I'm excited! I think most players are excited. Are you excited? The video below shows all the previous World of Warcraft Expansion cinematics, in chronological order, including the […]

This weekend is Gamescom 2017 in Germany, where Blizzard has already presented their new upcoming content. I was pretty surprised to learn that the new patch goes live next week already!! Still so many things to do before then :-|.  What I always love is the Cosplay contest at these events. Transmogging is one of […]

If you are not a World of Warcraft player, you should stop reading right now because this post will probably not make any sense to you. I've decided to embark on a quest to find Leeroy. He's not dead yet, so he's got to be somewhere! I will start where the Terminator also started his quest; in the phone-book registry. So let's start making some calls! I will post the results here soon (press read more below for them once I've added them)

I would love to have one of these old Blizzard servers that the game World of Warcraft used to run on. Back in the day, a realm used to run on one of these bad boys. I need one of these servers for nostalgic reasons. And of course to mess around with to get my […]