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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:No Wai !! by HermMunster · · Score: 5, Informative

    Blizzard has worked with the people at Cedega to make the product work properly. One known issue they helped the linux community with was when the mini map used to cause the screen to freak out. The Cedega team worked with the Blizzard developers to come up with the solution to the problem.

    Don't say that it isn't supported. No, officially it is not, but it is unofficially.

    As for him being modded as a troll--it would seem he is a troll. He is speaking out his arse without any knowledge nor history on the subject.

    --
    You can lead a man with reason but you can't make him think.
  2. Re:The Only Winning Move by Typhon100 · · Score: 5, Informative
    As I posted below, the LUA interface doesn't provide move commands. Here's what some of the most popular "mods" are:
    • Look/feel changes: These simply change the appearance of the GUI. Sometimes they add more information, like overlaying a % over the enemies health bar, or highlighting party members who are taking damage.
    • Bars: Many of the early addons were to add more buttons, until Blizzard implemented this themselves.
    • Raid: lots of addons help with raiding, like showing the health of everyone in the raid, showing the main tank's target, etc. Also, debuff cleansing with one button press (scans the raid and casts an appropriate cure spell), though this is being disabled by Blizzard in the coming expansion.
    • Additional GUI: some mods don't just modify the existing GUI they add more. A bar across the top listing money, regen rate, your (x,y) location on the map, your XP/hour, your fps and ping, the amount of ammo you have left, etc. For classes with reagent needs it can track those.

    As you can see most add-ons revolve around giving the user more information. The closest thing to botting there is the auto-curing, which is on its way out.