This is a friendly reminder that Warcraft stole from Warhammer’s IP

None of what you said was a new thing or what actually pushed Blizz/Msoft to action. It was the unreal engine port that did it.

Apparently Blizzard does have a choice when its Ascension doing all of that?

I’m pretty sure blizzard just paid them to shut down the server. It happens the same way every time with every server.