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Banned From WoW For WINE & Programmable Keyboard
An anonymous reader writes "Player gets banned for playing World of Warcraft under WINE and using a Logitech Gaming keyboard. "I am an experienced network engineer for an ISP and I am often running World of Warcraft on Linux through the use of WINE..."" Although the e-mails exchanged are unclear
my guess is that the programmable keyboard was more the problem then WINE. Not that you'd ever know that given that Blizzard communicates with their users seemingly almost exclusively with form letters.
Don't drink and play!
-WoW Overlords
I suppose it's a bad sign when BadAnalogyGuy beats me to exactly the analogy I was going to make...
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
That's a mediocre irony, not a bad analogy.
Come on, get with your own program or we'll get you banned you for handle fraud. I mean really, what the hell to do you thing we put up with you for anyway?
KFG
The way Blizzard replies to the guy's emails, if I had been him, I would have emailed them a large high rez uncompressed photo of my middle finger with the caption "this is the finger I used to press my final macro key in WoW".
Please do not reply to this email as you will receive an automated response.
Regards,
English Game Master Team
Blizzard Europe
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and he wonders why he git shitty responses. maybe he should have tried a different email route first I replied them with the following e-mail:
When you a grinding, if a GM suspects botting they will whisper you looking for you to respond. If you don't respond within a reasonable amount of time you get nailed for botting.
IOW -- "Human fails Turing Test. Film at Eleven."
haven't you ever played an ORPG? Repeatedly pressing a single button tends to be the whole of it.
-- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All
Good analogy. Business has lots of grinding, low level mobs, and elitist guilds.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
At the bottom of the article:
Priceless.
Ugh. I just had visions of the IT department getting a raid party together and heading down to payroll.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.
Yeah, cool, but it got him banned. He should have used one of those little, swinging, water-drinking, wooden birds with the funny hats, they're harder to detect.
A baby seal walks into a club...
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So i should pay x per month to sit there pressing the same keys over and over while watching a film?
I can do that for free, and if I unplug my keyboard i can do it roaming!
Why not both? Then follow it up with a sweep through the executive offices to burn out the heretics?
The streets shall flow with the blood of the non-believers.
Who did what now?
I have read some research on MMORPGs that suggests that there is an endless supply of creatures to slay and mobs to fight (i.e. Blizzard keeps the economy running through infusions of resources). If that is true, then I don't think the game qualifies as a zero sum system.
That's it. Blizzard has yet to start rounding up and gassing Slashdot editors.
too bad.
Jeezum Crow! I just read my post again and about all I can do is plead no contest and throw myself on my keyboard.
Not exactly hara kiri, but I'm sure it'll leave some nasty red spots for several seconds.
KFG
Getting kicked off of Wow for using a bot keyboard $15
... PRICELESS!
Complaining about it uselessly $0
Posting it to Slashdot so everyone can see how high your 14M3 factor is
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