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General Forums => Gaming => Blizzard, WoW and Bots => Topic started by: iago on March 15, 2006, 10:07:19 AM

Title: Banned From WoW for Wine and a Programmable Keyboard
Post by: iago on March 15, 2006, 10:07:19 AM
From Slashdot:

Quote"Player gets banned for playing World of Warcraft under WINE (http://infernix.net/wowban/) and using a Logitech Gaming keyboard. "I am an experienced network engineer for an ISP and I am often running World of Warcraft on Linux through the use of WINE..."" Although the e-mails exchanged are unclear my guess is that the programmable keyboard was more the problem then WINE. Not that you'd ever know that given that Blizzard communicates with their users seemingly almost exclusively with form letters.

I love how they mention the form-letters.  That's one of the most annoying things I've noticed about Blizzard :)
Title: Re: Banned From WoW for Wine and a Programmable Keyboard
Post by: Sidoh on March 15, 2006, 07:41:44 PM
What a pot of shit.  That's rediculous!
Title: Re: Banned From WoW for Wine and a Programmable Keyboard
Post by: ZeroX on March 20, 2006, 04:38:57 PM
Sorry Noobs here.

WINE is? I guess your not allowed to play wow on Linux OS?
Title: Re: Banned From WoW for Wine and a Programmable Keyboard
Post by: Blaze on March 20, 2006, 06:47:19 PM
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Title: Re: Banned From WoW for Wine and a Programmable Keyboard
Post by: Towelie on March 20, 2006, 08:56:01 PM
Neither side of the story has enough evidence to prove their point :-/ . If the guy is telling the truth, wtf @ blizzard.
Title: Re: Banned From WoW for Wine and a Programmable Keyboard
Post by: Blaze on March 21, 2006, 12:20:09 AM
It all depends on what he had the keyboard set to do.  :)
Title: Re: Banned From WoW for Wine and a Programmable Keyboard
Post by: Joe on March 22, 2006, 07:28:13 AM
Reading other topics on this, it was all the keyboard. He had it set to where he could turn the volume down and watch a movie while his character killed, only turning around to press a button once in a while. He was banned for purely botting, not for WINE.
Title: Re: Banned From WoW for Wine and a Programmable Keyboard
Post by: iago on March 22, 2006, 09:42:14 AM
Towelie -- what sides of the story?

The guy explained what he had done.  He was killing monsters automatically, using a healing thing or something once in awhile.  He asked Blizzard what the problem was, and got a totally useless automated response.  Then he tried to explain what he was doing, and got another automated response.  There is no Blizzard side to the story, it's 100% automated responses.  I don't blame him for being pissed off, he can't even talk to a person. 
Title: Re: Banned From WoW for Wine and a Programmable Keyboard
Post by: Joe on March 22, 2006, 09:57:15 AM
Hehe, call tech support and get an automated phone service too.
Title: Re: Banned From WoW for Wine and a Programmable Keyboard
Post by: DeploY on March 22, 2006, 11:50:49 AM
It's stupid...
Such a big company shouldn't have automated messages but 24/7 technical support lines with REAL persons...
Title: Re: Banned From WoW for Wine and a Programmable Keyboard
Post by: Sidoh on March 22, 2006, 12:09:49 PM
Quote from: DeploY on March 22, 2006, 11:50:49 AM
It's stupid...
Such a big company shouldn't have automated messages but 24/7 technical support lines with REAL persons...

I agree at some point, this should be true.  However, when your company has over 5 million subscribers using an extremely fragile, sensitive and unruly network, it would be next to impossible to have technical support lines with real people unless you want to be on hold for three hours.

I think the automated responses have some use, but I definitely agree that in this case, Blizzard should have responded with a human-written reply.
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