C'mon people we all know Blizzard staff would never make a mistake. I mean when they put out patches which have been tested...they are always perfect. right?

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This is my concern as well. The opening line of the Slashdot article is:


The operative word in that sentence is claimed. Everyone is quick to point fingers at us for impropriety, but avoid the reasonable answer of "maybe they were using third-party programs to gain an unfair advantage". It really is a simple answer, yet it seems to be avoided, for the most part.

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Law of large numbers: if you have large groups of people claiming they are kicked for using Linux. They were probably kicked due to using Linux.

You may have tested Cedega a while ago (that's the feeling I get from your previous post), Cedega revs out about every 2-3 months. I highly doubt you're testing your warden software against each rev of Cedega.

You should pony up and take the blame for it. You can dodge a lot of communities and spin a lot of mistakes. But it won't work against the OSS community, they are far to used to dealing with it.

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A brilliant change from the national sociaist germany poem and it's very true. If you don't stand up for those who are innocent there will be noone to stand up for you when you are innocent.

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I was already standing up!

*grumble grumble* Stupid short jokes. *grumble grumble*

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Tseric, I might remind you (and the rest of the WoW community) to look at the previous Slashdot article which claimed "User banned from World of Warcraft for using WINE & Programmable Keyboard"


That, too, turned out to be false.

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/15/1334241

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Slashdot is about as reliable as The Enquirer, these days.

Linux users are all looking for some shadey angle anyhow...

i mean lets not kid ourselves here...

its like a cop finding someone with an unliscensed firearm, yea.. MAYBE they don't have drugs on em too, but 9 times out of 10, if you search them they're packing a dime bag or something as well!

So a bunch of botters got pinched, and they all happend to be using linux - that just goes with the whole hacker territory if you ask me.

I think there is more to this. Bliz would not just ban paying customers for no reason except playing on Linux with Cedega. They had to be using some other program.

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Is your current sig indicative of your current mood?

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Poor little thing.

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Linux users are all looking for some shadey angle anyhow...

i mean lets not kid ourselves here...

its like a cop finding someone with an unliscensed firearm, yea.. MAYBE they don't have drugs on em too, but 9 times out of 10, if you search them they're packing a dime bag or something as well!

So a bunch of botters got pinched, and they all happend to be using linux - that just goes with the whole hacker territory if you ask me.

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I'm sorry to say this, but... Holy %#@*, you're #!@#ing stupid.

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Actually they can. THey are free to be as arbitrary as they like. They could ban everyone on your server and say it's because "We decided we didn't like having a server named Azgalor. And it's thier fault for creating characters on that server." if they wanted. It wouldn't be good business but it wouldn't be anything you could do anything about.

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Can they ban about 1/3 of the people on the Azgalor server? It'd probably run better.

After reading some of these topics that have been started, I was feeling sympathy towards those who were banned, because I actually believed them.

and then, someone posted a link to the WoWglider forums, omg, I've never heard of WoWglider and was shocked at it, and then I saw the forums for that site and now I have no sympathy for those liars trying to ger their account back.

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Tseric, keep in mind that glider was written for windows, I'm not aware of any bot programs that could have been used in linux. Have you guys considered that perhaps they have a back ground process running that may have caused a hit with warden? Or perhaps it's the difference between Gnome and KDE? Or even as simple as certain linux distros got banned an others didnt? All I ask is that you dont ignore the linux users, I'm sure there's more than a few that got unfairly banned.

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It's important to keep in mind of course, that they don't have to be in Linux when they cheat. Nor is it a stretch to think they can't just run a bot app emulated either.

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Did anyone else scratch their heads when they read "running windows emulator on linux"? Isn't that like buying a PS2, hacking it to play xbox games and then complaining when 1 or 2 xbox games don't work on it? how about this... BUY F'IN WINDOWS! damn moron.

Or do you get a little chub when you walk into starbucks and gloat about how your queen of the world cause you use linux and your "sticking it to the man" by not buying windows?


man people are stupid...

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No, we use linux cause it's free, virus free(for the most part), stable, and compatible with tons of open source(free) software. Honestly aside from wow, I have no use for my windows box. It just takes a certain level of wit to maintain and use a linux box properly, which I'm guessing you don't have.

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Actually they can. THey are free to be as arbitrary as they like. They could ban everyone on your server and say it's because "We decided we didn't like having a server named Azgalor. And it's thier fault for creating characters on that server." if they wanted. It wouldn't be good business but it wouldn't be anything you could do anything about.


I've heard a lot of people moaning about "false positives" and Linux but I've yet to see anyone offer up the slightest reasonable explaination about how Linux may cause false positives for Glider checks....

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Nooooooooooo Dont do it. I have an alt there!

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Minimum System Requirements

Windows® System 2000/XP OS:
Intel Pentium® III 800 MHz or AMD Athlon 800 MHz
512 MB or more of RAM
32 MB 3D graphics card with Hardware Transform and Lighting, such as NVIDIA® GeForce™ 2 class card or above
DirectX® 9.0c (included) and latest video drivers
6.0 GB available HD space
4x CD-ROM drive
A 56k or better Internet connection
Mac® OS X 10.3.9:
933 MHz or higher G4, or G5, or Intel processor
512 MB RAM or higher; DDR RAM recommended
ATI or NVIDIA® video hardware with 32 MB VRAM or more
6.0 GB available HD space
4x CD-Rom drive
56k or better Internet connection
*Note: Due to potential programming changes, the Minimum System Requirements for this game may change over time.

No where does this mention linux. Linux would be a 3rd party program. Banned. Good day.

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With that logic MSN messenger is a 3rd party program!