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Blizzard Bans Speed Hackers from WoW

Posted by Zonk on from the and-the-cycle-begins dept.

Voodoo Extreme has the world that Blizzard has already banned several accounts for Speed Hacking, a type of cheat that allows a character to move far faster than it should. From the article: "Those individuals who were caught using the speed hack have been banned from the game and have had their accounts closed. We must stress once again that we are opposed to hacking and cheating of any kind and are dedicated to maintaining a fair environment in our games." Adios, punks

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  1. Re:THAT is not the bad part by ewen · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Some years ago I was a law student. One class we played this group game whereby cheating (through lying to the group about what you were going to do, then doing something else) would let you win big. Nearly everyone in the class cheated. Some were very proud of the high scores they achieved in the game that way. No one else seemed to see it as a problem; they were disappointed they didn't figure out to cheat sooner.

    I'm not sure what this says about our lawyers today. But I don't think it's good.

    Ewen

    PS: My score was negative. And I'm not a lawyer. Those two things are not completely unrelated.