En ny World of Warcraft-privat-server kaldet Felmyst, der gav spillerne den samme oplevelse som tilbage i spillets første udvidelse, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, nåede kun at eksistere i få dage før den blev lukket ned.
Udvikleren bag privat-serveren, der kun kendes under brugernavnet "Gummy", har skrevet på serverens hjemmeside:
"Before the release date was declared, most people expected the server to flounder with a small population, the irony of which quickly became a meme. Therefore, months ago I saw no reason to hand all of our work over to someone I didn't know when the project had a reasonable chance to stay small enough to avoid the need. Though I have no problem contributing to honest developers, the market to wrongfully profit from this stuff is much too lucrative to hand it out on a whim. Had we time to smooth out the release, this certainly would have been something to explore. The warning signs to expect notice from Blizzard were there but receiving it that quickly was something I don't think many expected."
Blizzard kører selv kun servere med den nyeste udvidelse, hvilket i skrivende stund er World of Warcraft: Legion, så det er ikke muligt officielt at få den samme oplevelse i det lovlige spil som på emulerede servere.
På trods af dette er det Blizzard's ret at få lukket disse servere, da udvikleren stadig ejer alle rettighederne.
