Why is Warmane so far down on Xtremetop100 now?

[DragonfireEX402]

I was looking at the WoW private server rankings, and it looks like Warmane (Formerly Molten WoW) is now number 32...

What happened?

[Dante]

Just do some google searches and you'll find a lot of info about what happened. But a TL;DR:

All data was deleted/server got hijacked, they started fresh and gave everyone free shit, data was removed again, they started fresh again and gave people even more shit. Then they merged with ArenaTournament servers, and many people probably quit because they lost their characters with thousands of hours put into without properly being compensated.

[DragonfireEX402]

Just do some google searches and you'll find a lot of info about what happened. But a TL;DR:

All data was deleted/server got hijacked, they started fresh and gave everyone free shit, data was removed again, they started fresh again and gave people even more shit. Then they merged with ArenaTournament servers, and many people probably quit because they lost their characters with thousands of hours put into without properly being compensated.

Lost characters? While this would piss me off, they did at least give out free gear, free coins, and free level 80s, which I took advantage of.

[CreativeXtent]

and this kids is why you backup hourly to remote locations.... also why you should do better with your security.