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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. Oooh exciting! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Man suspended from game for breaking rules of game"

    I can't wait for slashdot to report on every ejection and game misconduct in this years NHL and MLB seasons. That'll be thrilling.

  2. Poor, poor Infernix by vestigial.organs · · Score: 0, Troll

    Does anyone really have any sympathy for this person? Excuse me, but you don't have enough time to play your videogame properly while watching movies WHILE AT WORK! Boo-hoo. You are lucky to have a job, buddy. Believe it or not, many of us perform "tasks" when at our "jobs" in order to do things like play videogames and watch movies when not "working". Yeah, Blizz sucks and screws people over in more ways than this, but I doubt you got any sympathy from the people reading your replies. Now I know why the Tech bubble burst... everyone was /afk watching movies.

  3. Re:It's the keyboard, stupid. - And he was BOTTING by someone1234 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not giving attention but pushing the button is effectively using a bot. He deserved what he got. I just don't understand why Blizzard banned him, they still get their money. They could have just removed the mob he was grinding on :) It is cheaper.

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  4. This is hilarious by bravo369 · · Score: 1, Troll

    haha...24 years old and playing 3000 hours of warcraft. geez, get a life. go get a girl. getting banned could be the best thing that ever happened to him. now he can actually go out on a saturday night instead of sitting in front of a computer all night. What 24 year old would rather play warcraft than go to a bar or out with some friends? shrug your shoulders and move onto something else. it's not the end of the world