Overview
- Turtle WoW said it will close in May 2026 after a court ruling in Blizzard’s favor, with donations turned off and community hubs starting to wind down.
- The ruling includes a permanent injunction that bars the Turtle WoW team from operating, promoting, or recreating the server or any similar project.
- Stormforge said it received a cease‑and‑desist from Blizzard and will also shut down in May 2026.
- The Stormforge team said it will stop running private servers for Activision Blizzard games and will focus on original projects.
- TweakTown reports that Blizzard’s actions target high‑visibility projects that took donations, as Turtle WoW offered a fan‑made “Classic+” variant, and the move tracks with recent cases like Daybreak’s suit against EverQuest’s The Heroes’ Journey.