My server’s farmers are the worst. I swear, they’re always three weeks behind all the other Warcraft servers in finding dupes, exploits, cheats and other (ahem) clever tactics. Shameful.

Yesterday, hapless Blizzard Community Manager Caydiem posted a reminder to obey the TERMS OF USE and gave vague assurances that Blizzard, in all its wisdom and omnipotence, was working to investigate reported violations, yadda yadda yadda:

While we are for security reasons unable to give specifics on the actions we are taking against players who attempt to undermine the economy of the World of Warcraft realms, as well as those who attempt to use exploits or cheats to gain an unfair advantage over other players, we would like to make the following clear:

We take such issues extremely seriously, and we have dedicated teams working to combat these issues actively and aggressively. We will continue to do everything possible to prevent this type of activity by taking the strongest action against those in violation of our Terms of Use. Please rest assured that we will leave no stone unturned in our quest to remove these undesirable elements from the game, and we encourage and appreciate your vigilance in regard to any activity that you believe represents such an incident.

Duh? Why say anything at all? We know all that. Unless … unless something has happened to precipitate this friendly reminder.

Something like a problem with DIRE MAUL’S KING GORDOK???

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