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World of Warcraft Patches to 1.9

Posted by Zonk on from the paladins-rejoice dept.

Xehn writes "The much-anticipated 1.9 patch has been released and can be downloaded via the Blizzard Downloader." Among many new features the Patch includes a complete revamp of the Paladin class, and the inclusion of the first unlockable 'World Event': The Gates of Ahn'Qiraj. From the patch notes: "Players will now be able to buy and sell goods with greater effectiveness using the Linked Auction House system. Auction Houses in Orgrimmar, Undercity, and Thunder Bluff will now share the same pool of Horde player-created auctions, and Alliance players will find the same to be true when visiting Ironforge, Stormwind City, and Darnassus Auction Houses. This system has been expanded to support the neutral Auction Houses as well."

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  1. Re:"The Warden" by obeythefist · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's a perfectly fair statement to make.

    No, Warden isn't gone, much like Raven Shield still uses Punkbuster. I hear even CoD2 is getting anti-cheat software put into the next patch.

    Warden is responsible for the 18 odd thousand accounts being removed recently, and I am quite happy for that because the vast majority of those banned would be people violating the terms of use agreement, cheating, and sweatshop farming goldminers.

    If you like, you're free to circumvent Warden by using the Sony rootkit, but I for one thank you for not playing WoW and therefore not cheating. WoW is a very easy game to play, and reaching level 60 does not need a "god" mode.

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    I am government man, come from the government. The government has sent me. -- G.I.R.
  2. Re:"The Warden" by GermanShepherd · · Score: 2, Informative
    Actually if you start the game with the normal exe, the warden thing doesn't even come up.
    Warden is the small program that only runs when WoW.exe is running. No bypassing that. The launcher (that loads when you use the default shortcut) is a cheatware scanner in addition to Warden. http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/misc/launcher.html seems to say that the Blizzard Launcher only notifies the user if you have cheatware. If you disregard the warnings and go ahead and start the game, then it's Warden's job to tell Blizzard that you're cheating and it won't be pretty.

    So I'm not exactly sure what you meant... if I misunderstood and corrected with something you already knew, then my apologies, heh.

    But I must say: More power to Blizzard for banning all those crazy level 1's with names comprised entirely of consonants that spam-whispered me offers to buy gold and disrupted my roleplaying. Booyah! (...and heck, even if they didn't get 'em all, at least they're trying.)