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Blizzard Closes 18,000 World of Warcraft Accounts

by Maarten Goldstein, Dec 22, 2005 6:02am PST

Related Topics – World of Warcraft, Blizzard

Blizzard updated the official World of Warcraft website to notify everyone that they have banned 18,000 naughty World of Warcraft players. According to Blizzard, the majority of those accounts were using third-party programs to farm gold and items, which is not allowed.

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By: TRIPLESIXMAFIA x Show Full Post

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Anyone who thinks buying gold is wrong, is a moron.

Think about the people who play the game that have "lives". I know for a fact that when I played, I didnt have the time to farm the gold I needed to be competitive in end game. However! This was all before I found out World of Warcraft is catering only to the PvE faggotry that is Everquest Nerds 2.0. Interestingly enough, the people that have "lives", often have more real life money! GO FIGURE!

So any World of Warcraft character outside of a highschool student with failing grades, SHOULDNT have enough time to farm for gold.

Dec 22, 2005 5:17pm PST

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Anyone who thinks buying gold is wrong, is a moron. Think about the people who play the game that have... : TRIPLESIXMAFIA
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By: shacktool x Show Full Post

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i really dont give a rats ass about gold farmers. I care more about content. This does nothing to the lack of content WoW has in the end game. I played, had fun, ran out of content. Thats the only reason why blizzard lost me. gg Bliz, way to spend all the profits from the 5million subscribers.

Dec 22, 2005 9:53am PST

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i really dont give a rats ass about gold farmers. I care more about content. This does nothing to the lac... : shacktool
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By: zehh x Show Full Post

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Does this mean we'll have another 'World of Warcraft reaches 5 million users' news in about a week?

Dec 22, 2005 2:14pm PST

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Does this mean we'll have another 'World of Warcraft reaches 5 million users' news in about a week? : zehh
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By: phinn x Show Full Post

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Looks like I better buy some more gold for like $16 before the price shoots up or something ;-)

I have a full time job and goto engineering school part time, who the hell has time to sit on their ass and farm gold all night? F that, I'll buy some gold and get a nice mount and a sweet blue weapon and be awesome. My time is worth more to me than being a farmer in a video game.

This is a good thing I'm sure nonetheless :P

Dec 22, 2005 3:08pm PST

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Looks like I better buy some more gold for like $16 before the price shoots up or something ;-) I have... : phinn
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- Who has time for a full time job and goes to engineering school part time? Why don't you just rob a bank? : yqbd

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I think they should find the farmers, put tracer data on the gold they collect, and ban the people who BUY the gold. They don't have the balls to do it, but that would be the most effective.

They'd have to have some sort of system to make sure it was legit (make all transactions though the auction system, where it won't let people pay for anything with this tagged gold).

But that would work big time. Who would risk all of their characters to buy gold?

Dec 22, 2005 1:13pm PST

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I think they should find the farmers, put tracer data on the gold they collect, and ban the people who BU... : gnoleb
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- Can you imagine how much more database activity what you propose would require? : trove

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By: geedeck x Show Full Post

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I think everyone is missing the point here.

They are not banning gold farmers.

They are banning people who use 3rd party programs (translation: hacks) to automate farming. If someone wants to really sit there 12 hours a day, then they can do so as long as it's really them doing it.

Dec 22, 2005 4:47pm PST

I think everyone is missing the point here. They are not banning gold farmers. They are banning pe... : geedeck

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By: jedi_27 x Show Full Post

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totally awesome news!!!

Dec 22, 2005 6:23am PST

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  It's only illegal if you think that Blizzard writes international law. Violation of the EULA, sure, bu... : Casey Smith
  - Hurrr, supposed to be a reply to #18. : Casey Smith

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foxtrot:

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Dec 22, 2005 3:32pm PST

foxtrot: http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/uc/20051221/lft051221.gif : frostythehitman

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their website looks like fucking shit in firefox

Dec 22, 2005 1:07pm PST

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their website looks like fucking shit in firefox : aliengrey
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- funny, because it looks the same in both ie and firefox : jarek99
- Looks fine here, using 1.5 : chiisu81

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By: Dynotaku x Show Full Post

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That's good news even though I dont play the game anymore but it really offers no deterrent to prevent gold farmers from opening up 18,000 new accounts and do it again until they get caught.

The better news will be when Blizzard implements processes that stops these guys cold, anti bot measures that kicks them out of the game and suspends the account after a bot has been active for 5 minutes.

The worst thing that could happen to WoW is for it to turn into another Lineage II, which I heard at some point that somewhere around 1/3 of players were actually farming bots.

Dec 22, 2005 6:51am PST

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By: SilverSnake x Show Full Post

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Does this mean they are below 5mill accounts again? :D

great news btw, nail those bloody farmers to the wall!

Dec 22, 2005 6:24am PST

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Does this mean they are below 5mill accounts again? :D great news btw, nail those bloody farmers to th : SilverSnake
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  They'll get 18000 new signups just in 1 day. : gmoney
  - from the same IP : empathe

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So are the armies of human gold farmers for online websites still legal? Or is gold farming in general illegal?

(I don't play WoW)

Dec 22, 2005 7:17am PST

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So are the armies of human gold farmers for online websites still legal? Or is gold farming in general il... : Schnapple
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  Gold farming isn't illegal in any country or state. It's not even against terms of service. Selling or... : Porkasaurus
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    yes, selling any "virtual" items or hacking is against the terms of service of the game. in this case, bl... : synic0
    - in before utterly stupid "terms of service isn't law lolz" arguments made by pro-hacker idiots : MrLonghair

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By: techx4 x Show Full Post

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haha i dont play wow anymore but thats pretty cool news, it means a lot of money lost for the people who cant EARN AN HONEST LIVING, get a real job :)

Dec 22, 2005 8:15am PST

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haha i dont play wow anymore but thats pretty cool news, it means a lot of money lost for the people who ... : techx4
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  in China, it is a REAL job and an Honest living. How is it not? : ease_one
  - because it's illegal? : synic0

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By: fuji-juice x Show Full Post

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Damn is that why I couldn't log in?

Dec 22, 2005 10:28am PST

Damn is that why I couldn't log in? : fuji-juice

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By: vertdang x Show Full Post

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You want how much Gold? You BUY!

Dec 22, 2005 6:12am PST

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You want how much Gold? You BUY! : vertdang
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- Buy? You mean BAI! : Priest77

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