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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 seriously, if you have the hardware to run the game, slap a copy of windows on your box and play with the rest of us. Seriously don't go crying because your OS isn't supported, your the minority of the minority. A tiny faction of the WOW players. Give it up and use a M$ or Mac OS.
Mod this flame bait, I don't care. Blizzard are greedy company only interested in making maximum profit. They don't care about the community or players.
Why else would a company close down bnet which was helping them not harming them as they proclaim.
I sold over 20 people on warcraft/starcraft/diablo by using bnet for home network play. Then blizzard got a bug up their asses and sued.
I refuse to buy any blizzard product. Any Linux user that does might as well have sold their soul tot he devil for supporting a company that
uses the DMCA to stop community development of tools to support their games.
Sanity is a majority vote.
Yes Blizzard please relase WOW clients for the following platforms I own -
Atari 800
TRS-80
Vic 20
Nintendo Entertainment System
You are losing $$ big time if you don't officially support every platform known to man!!
Everyone knows porting and testing to other platforms is super cheap, easy, and fun!
"But this one goes to 11!"
ARGH. There is already a linux port of WoW developed internally by blizzard. It would cost them ZERO to release now. They even had a support contract already worked out with LGP waiting to be signed. They don't even have to provide support as linux users provide their own support now anyway. I have proof and am not making it up. Blizzard corporate officiers halted the release. Blizzard is no friend of linux and history shows should be boycotted completely.