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Banned From WoW For WINE & Programmable Keyboard

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the they-hates-them-the-emulation dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Anonymous? by LordOfTheNoobs · · Score: 0, Redundant

    godwin

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    They're there affecting their effect.
  2. Re:This is commonplace for Blizzard by MooUK · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How does paying them for their uselessness have ANY chance of making things better?

  3. Guildwars here I come by DizTorDed · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is the exact reason why I quit WoW.

  4. Re:Getting banned from recreational sites by penguin_mafia · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I see no botting what so every because if he was botting he would had to click any buttons when he was leveling up the weapons. Now one thing I would like to know is are these keyboards using the builtin function to make macros and just allowing them to be binded to a key on the keyboard. If it is then that would make any macros made possibly a bot though. Because I could easly have extra action bars to bind keys to and from reading the article it seems that he using the extra keys on his keyboard for that purpose. Also not believing in helping out lower lvls is stupid because there 1o lvl lows Perfect example your raid guild needs another preist and has plenty of rouges so you beening a rouge decide that ou will lvl up preist for the guild now the guild can help u get up faster so that you will be usuable for them and i have know problems with that.

  5. Should I continue to play? by havoc · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This sounds completely unfair and is truly angering me. I can understand sending him a warning and a temporary suspension, but a complete ban for a first time offense (which in itself is debatable) for someone who has this high level a character is disturbing. Why would I want to invest more time into a system that could ban me without any recourse?