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World of Warcraft In the Axis of Evil

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-talking-about-the-horde dept.

Kotaku is running a piece by Wagner James Au, discussing the place World of Warcraft has in 'The Axis of Evil'. From the article: "Then again, there's little reason to think the ban was enforced much at all. Veteran WoW players tell me they often raid with folks who say they are Coalition troops in Iraq who've cleverly hacked around military firewalls to log in. And while it's doubtful that anyone but Kim Jung-Il and his geek cronies could log into World of Warcraft from North Korea, there's still an embargo on Iran."

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  1. Who Cares?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Embargoed countries like that also enjoy pirated games, books, music and movies from the US. Why is WOW so special or different?

    I'm sorry, I don't see the point of this story. It's listed under politics, but there's no political angle here. But I'm sure people will use this story to bash the US, yet again. It's the MO of slashdot's editors nowadays: set the political bait, and watch the flamewar fly. This is what news for nerds has turned to?

    1. Re:Who Cares?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Sorry, I wasn't clear here.

      I said "This article is off topic, why is it modded +5 insightful? The US didn't even do this, it was the UK!" and that got me a temp ban. The only "facts" I used were that TFA had nothing to do with the US and that flaming the US had nothing to do with TFA.

      Slashdot didn't seem to like that.

  2. Re:WoW belongs in the axis of evil by pHatidic · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Spoken like someone whose in denial about being conned out of a lot of time and money.