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Linux Users Banned From World of Warcraft?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the walking-the-fine-line dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Purely An Art Issue by Apocalypse111 · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, but you can get bearded GNOME freaks...

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  2. If Blizzard Doen't Ban These Users.... by 8127972 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ..... Then the terrorists win.

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  3. Re:No Wait !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  4. Re:No Wait !! by LanMan04 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

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  5. In other news... by copponex · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Linux community has pushed up the expected release date of kernel 2.8 by two full years.

  6. Old news by crossmr · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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