This was entirely their fault, if it's still crogge and shenna running things behind the scenes then they got what was coming to them they've been running servers for a long time, but saying you're going to port WoW itself to a different engine and expected no legal repercussions when using IP that you don't legally own is stupidity on itself.
It sucks to see a server die and people forced to move and kinda lose that community aspect, but painting such a huge target on your back and not caring about it is another level