Monthly Archives: April 2006

16,100 That Won’t Be With Us for a Few Days

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World of Warcraft recently banned 5,400 accounts and suspended an additional 10,700 for Terms of Service violations, including “… using third-party programs to farm gold and items.” (Front page item dated 4/12/06 and forum discussion.)

Also from the post: “Please note that selling World of Warcraft content, such as gold, items, and characters, can result in a permanent ban of the involved accounts from World of Warcraft.” Well, there it is, a line in the sand.

Upon reading this, I immediately became concerned about everyone’s favorite webcam bot: The World of Warcraft Bot. Did he escape the bloodletting or was he caught in their net too? I hadn’t checked on the little nipper for a few weeks, and I’m sorry to report that little World of Warcraft bot was indeed caught and banned recently. R.I.P. Bot 3.

You can review some stills from the prior bots’ lives at the gamecam site, currently disabled until Bot 4 is born … due date April 15, 2006.

Ya, I’m as excited about the new bot as you, but I’m going to need a few moments alone with my thoughts. (Taken from us, so young, and on the brink of starting his new life at level 60!)

OMG, They Killed Kalimdor!

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I hear tell there was a smidgen of a problem with the World of Warcraft servers last night, henceforth known as The Night Kalimdor Died. All I know personally is that I downloaded the minipatch, said hey to the guild, server crashed, logged back in, said hey again to the guild and was that just me, heard that it wasn’t just me but I should be glad I didn’t log in Kalimdor (as if!) because those poor SOBs are truly fucked and would I be going to ZulGrub with them assuming the server holds up.

Explained I, no, won’t be wasting my time going to ZG I had bigger fish to fry, namely a rather large download and a rather annoying patch and a rather lengthy login process and weren’t they kind of jealous and indeed, they were a little jealous. HA!

Hell, I just told them what I was up to, bragging rights and all, but I can’t tell you because thugs would show up at my door and beat my kneecaps with a bat and one thing I’ve learned is that I really need my kneecaps. So some times, I’ll be busy with that other thing that I can’t tell you about and some times I’ll be busy with Warcraft as usual.

I can tell you this about the other thing, I’ve already made some new friends. And when I say “friends”, you know I mean people that I hate.

(EDIT: Haha, I just remembered this one idiot from last night, who said (paraphrasing, but accurately), “I’ve been in a few endgame guilds that would kick you for profanity of any kind in guildchat or voicechat, top of the server type guilds”, which I figure is a COMPLETE fabrication. Try again, noob.)