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Blizzard Unbans Linux World of Warcraft Players

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the panic-subsides-throughout-the-land dept.

An anonymous reader writes "World of Warcraft players using Cedega (the Linux-based Windows emulator) had their bans lifted after an investigation by Blizzard in cooperation with the Cedega development team revealed that the bans were in fact made in error."

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  1. Sony's never banned for playing under Linux by everphilski · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And my friends and I have been playing EQ since 2001.

    And on the flipside (my wife plays WoW) ... they still have downtime problems to this day. Even on medium pop servers. Just last week she was getting disconnected every 30 seconds. She put up with it for 15 times and then gave up in frusturation. Meanwhile my trader in Everquest never disconnected...

  2. Re:Great News by theghost · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I think you're delusional. It was all about the bad press. Either that or one of their server admins took it up as a special project on his own. Blizzard provides pretty minimal customer service to their millions of Mac/Win players - they certainly don't care enough about Linux to make it any kind of priority.

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    The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
  3. Re:I'm ok with that by Rix · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It matters to Blizzard that people are having fun in their game, because if they aren't they don't get paid. Cheaters reduce everyone's fun level.

    However, a video game shouldn't really matter to the players. If getting kicked out has a major impact in your life, you shouldn't be playing in the first place.