400,000 Linux users banned from WOW for using Linux.

[NetDiag]

Well I personally can't see what the fuss is about. All this fuss over a silly RPG game! I would rather run around with a big gun mowing people down and hearing announcements such as 'KILLING SPREE!' and 'GODLIKE!' I don't remember having to use Cedegar for it either! LOL

 

Suicide Penguins laden with mucho explosives march into Microsoft HQ and BOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!

 

[Disease]

hehe

 

Oops having read Trangaming.org I submit to your will and Admit I was wrong.

 

Thank you

[webman]

I must agree with NetDiag on that one 8)

[Geoff]

I would rather run around with a big gun mowing people down and hearing announcements such as 'KILLING SPREE!' and 'GODLIKE!'

 

I'm fairly sure I've seen a WoW addon that'll add these 'UT Style' announcements to the game if you wish to make it more like a FPS. You can selectively enable it for PVP/PVE/Raiding.

[Geoff]

Just to update, Blizzard has been emailing and unbanning some users. Here's the message they are emailing:

 

Greetings,

 

As you know, Blizzard Entertainment traditionally makes a serious commitment to protect the World of Warcraft community from players who gain unfair advantage through hacks and exploits. Last week, our administrators implemented bans on a large number of accounts that were identified acting against the terms and the spirit of the game.

 

However, it has since come to our attention that a very small percentage of those accounts should not have been banned. This case of mistaken identity seems to be isolated to users of an unsupported, Linux-based Windows emulator called Cedega.

 

Once this pattern was brought to Blizzard's attention, our staff worked directly in conjunction with the Cedega development team in a rigorous and thorough review of the situation. We have since determined that your account was one of those accidentally flagged, and as such we are immediately reinstating your account to fully playable status.

 

Blizzard Entertainment deeply regrets the error, as we understand that this brief account closure presented you with an inconvenient and highly frustrating experience. We remain firmly committed to enforcing our regulations and suspensions for those exploiting our game, in the interest of ensuring that our legitimate customers have the best possible play experience. In this case, however, we regretfully caught a handful of innocent customers in the process, and for that we offer you our genuine apology.

 

In consideration of our error, we are applying a credit of two weeks play time

onto your account, in addition to crediting back the time that your account was locked. This comes to a total of twenty (20) days credit, which should be visible on your account within the end of the week.

 

If you have any other questions or concerns regarding this account, please do not hesitate to let us know. We appreciate your extraordinary patience in this matter and hope you will continue to enjoy your time in World of Warcraft.

 

Regards,

 

World of Warcraft Support Team

Blizzard Entertainment

[Jake]

Ban all the bots I say !! Teach them all a lesson, I've been reading the forums of one of the most popular bots this week, its utterly hilarious. Last I checked there was a 52 page thread of people who had been banned. Some of the excuses and reasoning they were coming up with were comedy gold.

 

Was amazing to see how they all thought they were doing nothing wrong, and how it was blizzard who were wrong for banning them and in some cases how blizzard had now "stolen" their subscription money hahaha