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."

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Re:The Only Winning Move

[TheRaven64]

This article discusses how to design a game where a human has an intrinsic advantage over a computer player.

Errrm, ever hear the phrase "Unsupported OS"

[Tarantulus]

If you get a game designed to run on windows/mac, then try to run it in linux, and it doesn't work properly, that's not the publishers fault, it's the fact that you are doing something the program wasn't designed for....

this is not Blizzard's fault, they clearly state the game is windows/mac only and if your linux install causes problems with the "warden" it's your fucking problem....

oh and cry more about the lv60epixxx you lost, nobody cares