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Did they lose, or did they just have a lot of fun coming up with ways to mess with people?

They tried very hard to stop it. Eventually the lead developer of the WarForge (emulated server) effort was approached with a job offer from Blizzard.

One thing about Blizzard is they’re extremely litigious wrt to piracy and emulated servers. See WoW, etc..

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