Reasons to play on private servers?

[Teryon]

Private servers are laggy, less stable and annoyingly you must pay real money or vote for the server in stupid TOP 100 sites to get the best epix.

Why do people play on them? They are free, but playing real WoW is also free (or even profitable) if you sell some gold each month.

[snowman555]

some people would rather be part of a small community or they just want it for free, retail isnt free since selling gold is work and you have to pay etc. etc. and not everyone knows you can sell gold or has gold to sell

not all priv servers are shitty... world of chris used to be the shit.. than it got popular and nubzorrexs attacked it

[Pedregon]

It may be more fun for some people.
For people who cannot afford retail,they can play the game on private server

I just got into private servers for exploration,there to playing around with
GM powers,and then to developing prvate server databases for fun.

[ad1das]

cuz in funservers u lvl and get items fast and easy and u can play with all classes without leveling again and again so much time

[acuz]

paly wow on retail = work for free

[3xploit]

paly wow on retail = work for free

Agreed.

Most people think it is more fun to be able to join a small community or create their own modifications of the game

[Myzt]

I don't understand people who only play on private servers...
Retail is worth a try

I play private servers because of the small communities and to experience some of the custom instances avalible. Private servers are very nice to have if you want to test out your dps in diff specs/gear too

[blackfang500]

I play both, mostly retail, but sometimes on my own server or on another private server when I've been playing retail too much, I wanna play another class, but most of the time me and my friends all play on private servers together so we can all do Gurubashi or solo stuff.

[hocius]

If you want to play permanently or for a long time on WoW --> Official servers

People (most of them) go to private servers to try things that wouldn't be possible at official servers, like mass walking speed, no cooldowns, mass damages...

I dont like private servers because most of them have lag and lots of bugs.

[windows]

Alot of people can't afford the $15 canadian and private servers are the cheap alternative

[cotrik2001]

Private servers just have this feeling of stickin it to blizz lol. One of the thing I was able to do in the past with them was you could donate to get all the best gear right away.

[blizzsource]

I used to play private servers cause I got bored of regular wow and what it had to offer cause I beat everything in the game. Then I tried all these custom instances and it was really fun but at the same time i got repetitive and boring