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Linux Users Banned From World of Warcraft?
Turmoyl writes "Many Cedega (formerly WINEX) users claim to have been mistakenly caught up in a security sweep of the U.S. game servers performed by Blizzard's World of Warcraft Game Master (GM) staff. Affected users received the same strongly-worded 'Notice of Account Closure' email messages that true bot users did, in which they were accused of the 'Use of Third Party Automation Software.' While diagnosis of this event continues early speculation points to Blizzard's use of the Warden anti-cheating spyware application that is bundled with World of Warcraft, and the odd things that may have been produced by it when it was run via Cedega. Emails to World of Warcraft's Account Administration staff continue to go unanswered while the list of affected people continues to grow."
No, but you can get bearded GNOME freaks...
There is no mod option "-1: Disagree" for a reason. "Overrated" is not an acceptable substitute. Post something instead.
..... Then the terrorists win.
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
You have NOTHING to whine about. nada. zero. zip. People modded him as a troll. Deal with it. We have no responsibility to take how you read things into account. You can whine all you want about it not being fair, or how you have some 'right' to have everyone else read, but you don't. Slashdot moderators make moderations for slashdot readers. If you get it to read it, power to you. But if it stops being read, tough luck, it was never intended to be read anyway. You may as well complain to Nintendo about the quality of Snes9x.
Why did this get modded "Troll"? He has a point. If I had mod points I would upmod this...
If he wanted be modded +5 Informative, he would have written, "M$ teh suck."
Why did this get modded "Troll"? He has a point. If I had mod points I would upmod this...
Would you rather it get modded Undead, Tauren, or Orc instead?
With the first link, the chain is forged.
The Linux community has pushed up the expected release date of kernel 2.8 by two full years.
If you were to have sex with a female undead, would it still be considered necrophilia?
I mean, she's dead but not really dead....
Emails to World of Warcraft's Account Administration staff continue to go unanswered
How terribly surprising! After the amazing track record of Blizzards customer support, this is totaly unexpected!
Infinite time means everything that can happen, will. You being you is absolutely incidental. You do not exist.
Please stop bad mouthing Blizzard. WoW GMs are infallible and beyond reproach. They do not make mistakes, these people were clearly cheating and using hacks, they had to be or Blizzard would not have banned them.
I can remember this being talked about months ago, people were getting these letters and they were running WoW under wine.
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Mod it Human. I really hate Human.
of warcraft...
*plays the Apogee theme song music*
You were caught running a highly efficient, highly secure, highly robust operating system - namely Linux. In our (Blizzards) opinion this would provide an advantage over other players. In addition, use of this software can lead to exploitation and destabilization of the World of Warcraft server economy. As such, this account has been closed and will not be reopened under any circumstances. The recurring subscription on the account has been disabled to prevent further charges.
on my core 2 duo 2 gig machine swapping to windows costs almost nothing time wise.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
You have to hire some guy to follow them videotaping the cops heading in so you can enjoy it ;)
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