WOW guild banned

Smart move. First, they did violate the EULA that they agreed to in order to play the game. Secondly, the more Blizzard can discourage hacks like this, the better. Regular mods should be fine since they get quite a bit of scrutiny, but hacks? How do you know that hack you loaded doesn't have a keylogger or worse? It's both a violation of the EULA and an unsafe computing practice - the less people who do it the better. Oh, and for people who are using hacks - just because you "know better" than to use a hack you don't know anything about, doesn't mean the other 6+ million players out there who are less tech savvy than you do. That guy you saw last week just starting off could end up with his account stolen...

wow.. who cares world of wonderland.. :P

they weren't banned because 'they were lazy' or that they 'snuck by' some boss or somethin, they got banned cuz they used an external application that helped them achieve such, be it 'remove walls' or whatever. The act of using a 3rd party app is breaking the license agreement quite explicitely. THAT is what got them banned.

Hmm. I read that and started to get worried, but then I saw that it was a Horde guild. I agree Marka1700, I am really tired of people cheating in WSG. Blizz needs to fix that, because lately, it seems almost no Alliance players want to play it.

Woes of PC gaming: cheaters

Marka1700, hackers in WSG? Tell me more. ;-)

WoW is terrible. I wasted a year of my life getting full tier 2. That game needs to DIAF.

That should teach them not to cheat.

Why is this news? MILLIONS of ppl play WoW lol... ANd I belive Blizzard prob wanted it to be news so they could make an example out of those who don't play the game "The way they invisioned"

Now they need to start banning the hackers in WSG

This is greate :) I LOVE to read about that the damn blizzard "spy" which runs in the bakground, cant catch cheaters. Tons of people cheat, and im tired of reading about people posting on forums that "you cant cheat on wow". Right...

Its not newsworther apoc, not every one in the word plays WOW, and this would only be good for wow players or the people in that guild, as for that how was this considered cheating, they could obviously breeze C'thun stands to reason the lower bosses weren't a problem for em, They just beypassed thos bosses in teh end, they didn;t get free exp or items just bypassed worthless crap. then again i all so say if they can beat C'thun then they could breeze through the lower bosses and not have a problem.

When they say the clan got banned, do they just mean all the members got perma banned?

Serves 'em right. Losers.

they had it coming. why cheat on WoW? that takes away the fun

why have people come here to comment that this was not newsworthy? i think it's relevant to those that play WOW (not myself)... but did the headline mislead you to thinking this was about something else? jesus, people...

ROWNEDFL

this is stupid news? Well I guess no other better news this week.

Guilds and players in MMOs are banned all the time. Why is this news?

I sympathise with them, the trash before c'thun is especially boring and you get limited rewards from the bosses before c'thun anyway, still the punishment as he says seems rather "steep" but neccessary i guess.

Blizzard did them a favor, now they have what is referred to as a "life"

To Pundog: They weren't cheating because it was too hard. They weren't cheating because it was too easy. They were cheating because they were too lazy. Maybe next time they'll weigh the few hours they saved per run versus the hundreds of hours they spent on not only their raiding characters, but all the other characters on their accounts.

most leaders on boards and online gamers cheat its just tradition u see some dude wid mad points your like how the heck how he did that, though there is a small percentage that actually sit for days to get stat and i mean a few.

News is news, I can't believe people are actually bashing this article for being up. Just as many of us don't care about consoles. Relax, there will be more up within a day or two for fanboys to read. Anyways, this is the first time Blizzard has banned such a concentrated group of players. You never see an entire guild getting banned in all the other reports. As for changing trash encounters... trash is trash. Blizzard has removed a lot of trash from some instances that used to be unreasonably packed full. The expansion will also feature plenty of instances with multiple wings, so when you're done with a wing you don't have to worry about clearing over that distance again if you come back the next day to do more. This guild cheated to farm the final boss in AQ40, and made up sorry excuses for doing it. Serves them right getting banned.

that sucked that they had to cheat .

In thier defence, a instance on farm is really annoying, all I need from MC right now is the Nemesis pants, I've been top of the locks for well over a month dkp wise, and the damn things wont drop, every time I enter MC now I hate it, if there was a way to skip all the useless crap in there and jump to Rag (who we get down before the sons come up).... lets just say I would be tempted

As bad as UO's HAX?

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Seems like a slow past few days for GameSpot. The biggest news in the last few days for me has been the Guitar Hero information.. Either way, I play WoW, and I could really care less. Glad they got trashed for cheating, though. Serves 'em right for not being patient as others have to be.

Why am I not surprised? There are always gonna be ppl willing to do things the easy way.

Serves them right. Dont freaking cheat/hack.

To Ghost900: They weren't cheating because it was too hard, they were cheating because it was too easy. Some of those areas can take literally hours to run through (so long that guilds will do them over a couple of days or even a week), and they were cheating because in order to get to the only thing they needed (the loot off the boss) they would have to spend hours going through pointless and easy stuff.

Did you know wow is coming to the wii? its been announced and is scheduled for december next year. Dont ask how i know.

I don't call this news! There are hacks in most games... It's like GS is an unofficial WoW site...

So cheating is justified if the game is too hard, huh? That is the lamest thing I've heard in a long time. If the game is too hard, then get better at it and quit whining. My guild and I take on every instance the whole way through and I've never had more fun than taking on the challenges of WoW. As for cheating because you are "too good" and you just want to get to the end boss to get your "phat" loots, then maybe (just maybe) you should go play something. This guild is sorry alright... sorry that they got caught. What a joke...

"This is considered news!? Honestly, I don't care about some WoW guild that is using hacks. I'd rather know about stuff concerning the PS3 and Wii." It's not like they didn't post PS3 news to post this story. If the news headline doesn't interest you, don't read it. Pretty simple.

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well Kolomo... To be considered newsworthy, an event usually must have broad interest in one or more news values * Effect (how many people were, are or will be affected?) * Timeliness (did the event occur very recently?) * Revelation (is there significant new information, previously unknown?) * Proximity (was the event nearby geographically?) Just because you arent one of the 6million people playing warcraft, doesnt make it unworthy of being news.

Serves them right, dont hack if you dont want to get booted.

Kolomo, welcome to the real world! WOW is TOTAL INSANITY and it's made more money for VU games from sales and subscription than all of the FF games since 2001. Just so that you can put that into perspective.

Luckliy, it´s not my guild

Yeah, they pretty much had it coming, but I guess they did it to be more efficient at getting treasures. I don't think it seems that severe a crime, albeit it's kind of like counterfeiting as it devalues the worth of the treasures that are obtained the normal way.

Busted!!!

....what....you people want to pay a monthly fee for an easier game?! I think you guys fail to realize that if you paid money for an easier WOW, that you'd all be disappointed. You'd get your levels and items easier, and then eventually, run out of challenge. Sure, there could be a zone or two that presents to you some form of challenge, but the right party and plan can always see through it (as we all know). If you're going to pay money monthly to play a game, it better be REALLY challenging. That way, you feel like you earned something. When you passed whatever milestone that you're aiming for, you feel that much better about it, and about paying that monthly fee.

This is considered news!? Honestly, I don't care about some WoW guild that is using hacks. I'd rather know about stuff concerning the PS3 and Wii. I still can't believe this is considered real news...

"I'm sure they'll try and get it rescinded because it's kind of a steep punishment with no recourse or whatever."

C'thun trash blows, ppl are trying to skip it not because of lackluster loots, but because it's tedious and not fun. Blizzard needs to learn2design more fun trash encounters.

morons. anyone who turns a game like WoW into a lifestyle is a waste of time. hopefully they can go do something productive for the first time in their lives now that their addiction has been ripped away from them.