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18,000 banished from WOW

World of Warcraft developer has suspended 18,000 user accounts over the last three months.

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Just recently, VU Games touted the fact that the subscriber base for World of Warcraft had reached 5 million people. After today's news from the game's developer, Blizzard, VUG may be able to say WOW has reached 5 million users again in the near future. Over the last three months, Blizzard has suspended 18,000 WOW accounts of those who broke the game's Terms of Use, roughly 200 accounts per day. Most of the suspensions were of computer-run characters made to farm gold and items for resale in the real world. Blizzard is asking legitimate WOW players to report any suspicious activity going down in Azeroth. For more information, head over to the official World of Warcraft Web site.

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