December 23, 200520 yr Over 18,000 Accounts Cancelled in World of Warcraft No cheaters allowed! by Jane Pinckard, 12/22/2005 62 of 63 users recommend this story. Blizzard announced on their website yesterday evening that over 18,000 World of Warcraft accounts have been permanently banned in the last three months for engaging in activities that violate the Terms of Use agreement: A majority of these accounts were found to be using third-party programs to farm gold and items. Such actions can severely impact the economy of a realm and the overall game enjoyment for all players. We will continue to actively monitor all World of Warcraft realms in order to protect the service and its players from the negative effects of cheating. Please note that selling World of Warcraft content, such as gold, items, and characters, can result in the permanent removal of the involved accounts from World of Warcraft. Running third-party programs to farm gold, most gamers would agree, is cheating. But many game companies have slowly started to allow customer to trade, buy, and sell gold and items - officially, for example through Sony's Station Exchange. Blizzard, however, has a very strict policy against the practice. Some of the rarer and most coveted items will actually bind to the player who picks it up, making it impossible to sell or trade. Blizzard noted that reports from gamers alerted the company to instances of "cheating" that resulted the bans. - From 1up.com
December 23, 200520 yr Bloody hell thats alot of people :shock: Bah they should have followed the rules :D And no lol why do you always want to get stuff from John Lewis. Its over ̣̉300 more then than what i paid. John Lewis is a great, great shop.
December 23, 200520 yr I wonder if anyone used first party programs to harvest gold :P I just posted something! ^_^ to the terrorist...er... kirbybeam.
December 23, 200520 yr Nice to know Runescape isn't the only one with autoer problems. I wonder how many total accounts they have if they banned 18k. 18k players * $15.00 per month = $270k per month = $3.24 mil per year.
December 23, 200520 yr Darn CHEETS 23 whip pks,3 dhorka,2 ahrims lvl 119 attack 99 strength 99 and defence 92 plus 94 mage
December 23, 200520 yr Blizzard owns. It's not like Blizzard hasn't done these sort of antics before...
December 23, 200520 yr Author Nice to know Runescape isn't the only one with autoer problems. I wonder how many total accounts they have if they banned 18k. 18k players * $15.00 per month = $270k per month = $3.24 mil per year. My friend said 4 million, but :roll:
December 23, 200520 yr Nice to know Runescape isn't the only one with autoer problems. I wonder how many total accounts they have if they banned 18k. 18k players * $15.00 per month = $270k per month = $3.24 mil per year. My friend said 4 million, but :roll: Well its still close enough :wink: Meh, Blizzard can afford to spend as much as it wants anyway! Their games are always awesome so alot of people buy. The Enrichment Center reminds you that the weighted companion cube will never threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak. In the event that the weighted companion cube does speak, the Enrichment Center urges you to disregard its advice.
December 23, 200520 yr Nice to know Runescape isn't the only one with autoer problems. I wonder how many total accounts they have if they banned 18k. 18k players * $15.00 per month = $270k per month = $3.24 mil per year. Thats quite a bit of money they'll lose and thats alot of members gone!
December 23, 200520 yr I like how jagex does the opposite and makes it so if you wanna auto you have to pay (making rsc members only) instead of removing the problem.
December 23, 200520 yr Author 4 million (people) * $15.00 * 12 (months) = $720 000 000 :o 18 thousand (people) * $15.00 * 12 (months) = $3 240 000 $720 000 000 -$3 240 000 =$716 760 000 they will still have. Thats just a estimate if everybody paid for a year and 4 million people played.
December 23, 200520 yr I wonder if anyone used first party programs to harvest gold :P What? Like THE CLIENT? :wall: This is how much you all raised for charity. Thank you.
December 23, 200520 yr I wonder if anyone used first party programs to harvest gold :P What? Like THE CLIENT? :wall: Client would be second party :P 1st - Made by yourself 2nd - Made by gamemaker 3rd - Made by someone else I just posted something! ^_^ to the terrorist...er... kirbybeam.
December 24, 200520 yr Thats quite a bit of money they'll lose and thats alot of members gone! I was always surprised how many cheaters who were banned started a new account and started paying straight away again. I think in an MMORPG, that community ties are so strong, that when a serious player is banned, he doesn't know what to do with himself, so just starts from scratch again. Of course in Runescape, it's a lot easier to get levels and gold when you're a member than when you're not - so the cheaters sign up again. On another subject, I'd far rather that games let you trade ingame items for real life money. Sure, some items should be just available through ingame prowess ('bound' items) - but I think that integrating ingame and real-life economies is a very interesting thing to do. For it is the greyness of dusk that reigns.The time when the living and the dead exist as one.
December 24, 200520 yr Thats quite a bit of money they'll lose and thats alot of members gone! I was always surprised how many cheaters who were banned started a new account and started paying straight away again. I think in an MMORPG, that community ties are so strong, that when a serious player is banned, he doesn't know what to do with himself, so just starts from scratch again. Of course in Runescape, it's a lot easier to get levels and gold when you're a member than when you're not - so the cheaters sign up again. On another subject, I'd far rather that games let you trade ingame items for real life money. Sure, some items should be just available through ingame prowess ('bound' items) - but I think that integrating ingame and real-life economies is a very interesting thing to do. Interesting, but for the people willing to waste money =\ Maybe if there was a $20-50 cap per month it'd make a little more sense, but even then that would probably be a huge advantage unless Sword of Generic Slaying +1 is $20 alone :P I just posted something! ^_^ to the terrorist...er... kirbybeam.
December 24, 200520 yr Im pretty sure I read on Gamespot and on Blizzards site that they recently hit 5 million users.
December 24, 200520 yr I laugh at their missfortune! :lol: Sig by IkuraiYour Guide to Posting! Behave or I will send my Moose mounted Beaver launchers at you!
December 24, 200520 yr Interesting, but for the people willing to waste money =\ But, some people have more money than time. They could be earning $100 per hour or something rather than spending an hour getting $5 worth of rs gold. For it is the greyness of dusk that reigns.The time when the living and the dead exist as one.
December 24, 200520 yr Darn CHEETS Coming from someone who openly admitted to AFK training ... And keep in mind that although Jagex loses that money, they still get the cash from sales. 18k * $40 = 620k. Granted, it's not as much, but it's something. And the application of strict policies such as this has the potential to encourage and entice more gamers to join. I wouldn't be surprised if, eventually, it will be possible for companies to take legal action against cheaters in online games. I mean, it breeches the agreements, and the RIAA sues about 700 people every month (not that that justifies it of course because the RIAA are a bunch of morons, but you get my point). But anyway, good on Blizzard.
December 24, 200520 yr They have, what...5 million customer's now? Me being one of them, lol....18k people is nothing. At all. They regularily give out like 20 or 30 grand in graphics cards and other hardware...Like every month or two...Like this month...31 select people (1 per day) get some expensive thinger, I forgot what it was exactly...Gfx card...something. What they need to do is ban the chinese accounts (all farmers) that come on the American servers (illegally by law, may I add) and spam accounts, account's mail systems, and general chats with websites, items, etc etc. It's not as bad as I remember RuneScape being though, so that's a plus. Blizzard owns. 8) The popularity of any given religion today depends on the victories of the wars they fought in the past. - Me!
December 25, 200520 yr Nice to know Runescape isn't the only one with autoer problems. I wonder how many total accounts they have if they banned 18k. 18k players * $15.00 per month = $270k per month = $3.24 mil per year. Thats quite a bit of money they'll lose and thats alot of members gone! I think compared to what they earn in total, that's peanuts.
December 25, 200520 yr ouch. $3.24 Million a year is a big hit. thats around what jagex makes a year :lol: Bliz after releasing in japan hit 4mil users about 3 months ago, i wouldn't be suprised if 5mil. WoW generate 23x more than $3.24 mil a month. :P
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