Blizzard bans 100,000 World of Warcraft accounts

Jono · May 14, 2015, 11:13:01 PM

http://www.dailydot.com/geek/blizzard-bans-100000-players-world-of-warcraft/?fb=dd

Why would you pay monthly for a game only to have bots play the game for you?

Comet · May 14, 2015, 11:14:26 PM

>the bot grinds for loot
>paypal
>sell the rare shit to idiots that will pay irl monies

Jono · May 14, 2015, 11:15:44 PM

Quote from: Comet on May 14, 2015, 11:14:26 PM

>the bot grinds for loot
>paypal
>sell the rare shit to idiots that will pay irl monies

Oh, now it makes sense.

But still, its kinda dumb. And now they paid the price.

Comet · May 14, 2015, 11:17:11 PM

Quote from: Jono on May 14, 2015, 11:15:44 PM

Quote from: Comet on May 14, 2015, 11:14:26 PM
>the bot grinds for loot
>paypal
>sell the rare shit to idiots that will pay irl monies
Oh, now it makes sense.

But still, its kinda dumb. And now they paid the price.

"paid the price"
hue. depends on how much/how long they've been doing it.

🂿 · May 14, 2015, 11:31:30 PM

I lol'd.

Saleem · May 14, 2015, 11:35:48 PM

Not Comms Officer · May 15, 2015, 12:16:40 AM

Lol. My brother was one of those banned people.

Azumarill · May 15, 2015, 12:48:08 AM

im willing to be anyone who multiboxed in the last few months got wrecked. i never saw it as much of a problem tbh. the worst theyd do (that ever affected me) is saturate the market for certain goods on the auction house

Sigma617 · May 15, 2015, 12:53:06 AM

WoW is definitely big enough to profit from that sort of exploitation.

Mattie G Indahouse · May 15, 2015, 05:43:01 AM

Quote from: Jono on May 14, 2015, 11:15:44 PM

Quote from: Comet on May 14, 2015, 11:14:26 PM
>the bot grinds for loot
>paypal
>sell the rare shit to idiots that will pay irl monies
Oh, now it makes sense.

But still, its kinda dumb. And now they paid the price.

If you ended up making thousands off of doing it then the price of creating accounts to sell is well worth it. In EVE Online some dumb fuck paid $10,000 of real money on a ship. So you're going to have people paying a pretty penny for those accounts depending on how good they are.

Mattie G Indahouse · May 15, 2015, 05:45:58 AM

Quote from: Nuka on May 15, 2015, 05:12:21 AM

That'll definitely help the game's dying population.

If anything people doing that were maintaining somewhat of a population due to people not wanting to do heavy grinding for shit.

Jocephalopod · May 15, 2015, 06:39:01 AM

people play World of Warcraft?

Incan · May 15, 2015, 06:44:36 AM

Quote from: Jocephalopod on May 15, 2015, 06:39:01 AM

people play World of Warcraft?

Considering it's still the most popular western MMO, I'd say yes.

Jester · May 15, 2015, 09:43:53 AM

Good

Azumarill · May 15, 2015, 11:51:30 AM

Quote from: Nuka on May 15, 2015, 05:12:21 AM

That'll definitely help the game's dying population.

this was like 1% of the population

Azumarill · May 15, 2015, 11:52:34 AM

Quote from: BerzerkCommando on May 15, 2015, 05:45:58 AM

Quote from: Nuka on May 15, 2015, 05:12:21 AM
That'll definitely help the game's dying population.
If anything people doing that were maintaining somewhat of a population due to people not wanting to do heavy grinding for shit.

not really. they could only sell items that werent soulbound, IE no armor/quest items. they mostly sold pets and mounts and gold

Azumarill · May 15, 2015, 11:54:33 AM

Quote from: Incan on May 15, 2015, 06:44:36 AM

Quote from: Jocephalopod on May 15, 2015, 06:39:01 AM
people play World of Warcraft?
Considering it's still the most popular western MMO, I'd say yes.

EVE might be bigger. it's really hard to find accurate population estimates for EVE though.

Verbatim · May 15, 2015, 11:56:45 AM

Neat.

Still wouldn't ever play, though.

big sponge · May 15, 2015, 12:02:45 PM

Quote from: Azumarill on May 15, 2015, 11:54:33 AM

Quote from: Incan on May 15, 2015, 06:44:36 AM
Quote from: Jocephalopod on May 15, 2015, 06:39:01 AM
people play World of Warcraft?
Considering it's still the most popular western MMO, I'd say yes.
EVE might be bigger. it's really hard to find accurate population estimates for EVE though.

It's not.

Luis · May 15, 2015, 09:42:04 PM

R o c k e t · May 15, 2015, 09:45:30 PM

Never played it

Zonda · May 16, 2015, 07:16:16 AM

That's almost Halo Waypoint's hourly quota in bans.

rC · May 16, 2015, 09:06:41 AM

WoW really went down the shitter with WoD. That has nothing to do with the OP as they've been banning cheaters since the beginning, but they really took a good chunk of the need for thought out of the game.

Azumarill · May 16, 2015, 11:03:01 AM

Quote from: rc on May 16, 2015, 09:06:41 AM

WoW really went down the shitter with WoD. That has nothing to do with the OP as they've been banning cheaters since the beginning, but they really took a good chunk of the need for thought out of the game.

WoD feels like the worst parts of WOTLK/Cata/Pandaland all rolled into one. Can't fly, dailies out the ass, ugly tmogs, the list goes on. The stat squish was desperately needed and I like the idea of going to pre-BC Draenor but it fell flat. I don't want to spend 30 minutes in my Garrison every day and then log off.

Luckily, there's still a metric fuckton of other, great content, but WoD is fairly disappointing so far