Blizzard Officially Files Against WoW Glider

Posted by Zonk on Monday February 19, 2007 @03:58AM from the it-sorta-kinda-is-cheating dept.

Marcus Eikenberry writes "Blizzard and Vivendi today filed against MDY Industries, the makers of the 'WoW Glider' software. Glider allows World of Warcraft players to 'play' while away from the keyboard; the software moves the player's avatar along a set path, following a complex set of instructions dictated in advance. Blizzard is seeking injunctive relief and money damages against MDY. What that means is they want him to stop the production of WoW Glider and they want him to pay them damages. Blizzard believes that Glider infringes on their intellectual property. They believe Glider allows players to cheat, giving them an unfair advantage and that they believe Glider encourages Blizzard customers to breach their contracts for playing the game. Last they claim that Glider is designed to circumvent copyright protections."

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Boycott Blizzard by jspayne · 2007-02-19 05:33 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Warcraft II was good, Kali made it groundbreaking. So much so, Blizzard was shipping Kali on the Warcraft II CD, and ultimately it inspired Blizzard to create Battle.net. Battle.net was good, but not great - and Bnetd was created. Did Blizzard embrace this new contribution from their loyal fanbase? Of course not, they sued them into oblivion. I owned every Blizzard title and expansion up to Warcraft 3. They haven't gotten a nickel of my money since.