This thread is for any1 out there that is thinking of opening a private server, a real, successful one. It amazes me how no one seems to exploit this ideea: A full on, hardcore arena 3.3.5 server. Hear me out
Instant 80, free wrathful/t10/equivalent gear, cooldowns reset on duel. I know and played on all servers like this, and they all did great. Until they closed. There was 1 servers exactly like this that opened recently, endlessarenas. In 4-5 days of uptime it had an amazing 300 players online at all times population. 5 days! In 1 week they took ~500 players from abyssal-wow. Malaco(the admin) knew that his shitserver was going down so he buyed endlessarenas, but not to use it, just so he can close that server that was threatning his business.
Bottomline: Use this great server ideea, everyone is looking for this kind of servers