Over at The Cesspit, Abalieno cited a Blizzard response to the concerns about Warcraft /randoms and the graphic Dice Rolls.

It will take you all of about 5 seconds to see where they have their wires crossed. And, if you still have the courage to read through more rhetoric, here’s a Blizzard thread “answering” other recent issues and concerns.

Really. I tire of the bullshit and the noobety. I could devote my entire content to poking fun at their circular logic and utter fucking incompetence, but I prefer not to be consumed by that. So much more fun for me, and I’ll assume for you, to write and read about murder and mayhem in the online world.

Summing up: Content is king, but delivery is its handmaiden. Your better mousetrap doesn’t mean dick to me if I can’t use it.

Blizzard has lowered the bar by which all others will be measured. Congrats on that, assbags.

By the way, don’t accumulate too much wealth in World of Warcraft. Either SPEND! SPEND! SPEND! or give to the poor — may I suggest aiding the Ironforge war orphans?

The Blizzard Collective is temporarily locking accounts for “having excessively large amounts of in-game currency”.

Incredible.

I don’t quite know what to make of this.

The Blizzard Collective smote a batch of accounts for using a third-party hack for teleportation. Clearly, a no no. Quoting minion Ordinn, dated 3/1/05:

Over the past few weeks, we have seen an increase in the number of players using third party teleportation hacks. These hacks allowed players to instantly teleport their characters to any location in the world. This exploit is a clear violation of our Terms of Use and End User License agreements, and those accounts using it have been permanently banned from World of Warcraft.

Then, there’s a few player posts claiming that they were unjustly banned in this latest hacker sting. Nothing new there. Every time there’s a hacker sting, we always see at least a couple of players who maintain their innocence — usually they are guilty, but sometimes they are not (post #312 in that link).

I don’t know who’s lying or who’s mistaken … but this thing is gathering steam.

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