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Blizzard Wields The Banhammer Again
Eurogamer reports that Blizzard is once again clearing house, and this time they mean business. From the article: "Blizzard has banned more than 5400 World of Warcraft players from the game for good as part of plans to clamp down on gold farming and cheating in general. A further 10,700 accounts have been suspended for 'participating in activities that violate the game's Terms of Use, including using third-party programs to farm gold and items.'"
Why don't they fix the game instead of banning these "cheaters"?
Now I don't play WoW or any MMORPG but I have played Quake and UT online and these are generally fixed with tools that help prevent cheating rather than just outright banning of everyone. I don't have a problem banning true cheaters but who says who is cheating and what constitutes "cheating" versus friendly taking advantage of the system. Seems like too many innocents or people just playing around could get banned. I mean mistakes can be made, there are no laws governing this, you're just gone. This is actually part of the reason why I don't play MMORPG's, I don't want to possibly waste money on something I can't control.
The ratio of people to cake is too big