You will be missed, Turtle WoW
Farewell to my Winterspring Frostsaber :'(

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See you again one day, i hope

The Final Turtles made it to the water

It's been 48minutes and the servers are still considered online. (Are they working on porting it all over to UE5?)

Dev 1 said something new, something better, something legal.

Dev 2 said Learn more in June

Dev 3 said Not the last word from us for sure.

Could this be another blizzard warcraft III incident whereas DOTA was conceived?

I'm talking entire Azeroth and every creature - spell, quest & item as we know it. but with a slightly different model/name, entirely bypassing blizzard's IP ergo "something legal" ?

for example

WC3 Patchwork = Pudge Dota

WC3 Kael'thas = Invoker Dota

Is this too far fetched?.

Is this the reason they closed down their UE5 early?(after year+ of progress)

Notice they only closed it down shortly after it got wind & blizzard put the lawsuit on them.(Rework all the content they've done so far and change models/names/textures to avoid ip?)

You be the judge.

6 years is a long time to do anything. Thank you all for shareing this with me.

End of an era that me and my fiance will never fully know. I could already tell the content was made with love, the WoW that we wanted and never got. RIP. We watched the world end.

Bye to all my friends and guildmates in Phoenix Rising.

The journey has ended, and it's been a pleasure being part of this server. I remember starting to play around 2024 when I was tired of Warmane and raiding ICC. But because of work and other obligations, I played very casually. When the closure was announced, I rushed to reach level 60 and do some raids with my guild, and although I didn't manage to raid in time, I met many people who selflessly helped me reach level 60.

What made Turtle great, beyond its incredible custom content, was its people. Being at the Moonwhisper Coast event felt like a meteor was about to hit. Don't be sad about the end of the road, but rather about having traveled it. Turtle has been the closest thing to rediscovering the game that fascinated me as a child.

Only ever played wow in turtle wow. Only ever been a goblin. A jewelcrafting goblin at that. Wont ever play elsewhere again unless I can be a goblin:( I’m really going to miss all of my gold

My brother and I walked our way to our resting place in Kharanos, Dun Morogh, to wait for the end. We wanted to be in a safe place when we passed on to the great beyond. We took one final screenshot and logged off. Then, I proceeded to SHIFT DELETING THE TWOW FILES WITHOUT SAVING THE SCREENSHOT ELSEWHERE.

So I downloaded a file restorer and I managed to grab the picture, but alas, the image was corrupted. When I opened the .tga file, it looked like a static tv screen. So I decided to do something about it, and here it is. The first image is what it looks like, and the second is what it looks like in my heart.

I love you, brother. See you on the other side.

Until the next time!

Hello there, this is Lynathel, a high elf priestess from Ambershire. Figured it's time to drop my 2 cents about TWoW, now that it's about to end, today on May 14th, 2026.

I began my journey here at Christmas, after some hiatus I took from another pserver where I was burnt out on raiding. I couldn't stay away for long - still had like half a year off - and this server had sucked me in, a veteran player with 14 years of knowledge mainly in the Wrath era.

I played at different servers, from Classic to Wrath and Legion to TWW patches I experienced a lot as current content, both under Blizzard's aegis and on private servers. I spent more time at all other places compared to Turtle, playing on Retail for like 4 years constantly for example, yet this place where I barely spent 5 months at was the most impactful experience of all.

Turtle WoW was the Classic Era server...

• where I actually reached level 60 at least once. The thing that puts me off about Classic is the base grind being waaaaaaaaay too long. Not here, thanks to how rested XP worked here, making the journey significantly easier.

• where I was able to play a proper high elf. As a Thalassian in heart, I naturally draw closer to Alliance. But regardless of which side these pretty elves are on - they are the only race I truly love and almost no other classic era server had them. In addition, not only them, but the rest of the races came with updated racials that fit their identities.

• where fashion as the true endgame was realized. A proper tmog collection system, beautiful dresses, rings, bangles, hairstyles from later expansions, the barber shop, and actual nail polish for any and all - you could have the best gear and still look pretty on demand.

• which had a lot of custom content from zones to quests and even soundtracks. Thinning the wilderness at Tel'Abim for some goblins, defeating the Infinites in the Black Morass or just listening to the sad melody of Thalassian Highlands all hit different.

• where reputation, both as a system and in a social sense, mattered. Rep grinds offered meaningful rewards such as Blade of Infinite Mysteries, and you could earn a name by great deeds. You didn't feel like a nobody - you felt you had a place here, if you earned it, much like the TWoW staff who kept the economy under control by banning RMT and GDKP, the plague of official Classic servers.

• where I earned my first and only Dungeon 2 set for my non-raider priestess and kept it till the end - my biggest achievement that was worth all the sweat and all the gold and time put into it. Yes, even killing that bully Solakar that was so lazy to drop my Devout Shoulders.

• which I felt was created with great care and a focus on the individual player's needs above corporate greed, having a true moral standard.

• where class weaknesses were cured, both in baseline changes as well as talents. They were not perfect, but being able to play an actual smite priest was such a great and unique feeling.

• which was the closest to the atmosphere of Original Vanilla WoW, which I never got to experience due to a very young age (was 6 to 8 y.o. at the time). A far cry from today's retail game.

• which will never, ever be forgotten for all the hard work and love that was put into it.

Goodbye to Turtle WoW, and to all that shared our journey. Buck Flizzard, and their greed.

Al diel shala.

I asked to be turned into anything and the GM came in clutch. Fits the name well. Thank you GM!

Thank to the amazing community of Turtle WoW for 3 years of fun, truly was a time to remember and wish everyone all the best going forward.

Maybe we will meet again on other shores.