Banned WoW Gamer Offers $1,000 To Get Account Back

[Digikid]

SO maybe the guy that got banned will go out and play a REAL game now. Damn WOW-crackheads.

 

[ThaBenMan]

Ahahaha - I love the Escapist official seal of Fail, I hope we see more of it

 

[Tahmoh]

Somehting tells me blizzard are just gonna assume that if he has a grand to give away he probably got it from his botting anyway so it proves he was in fact a gold seller afterall....not many people who play WoW are gonna have that sorta cash to throw around.

 

[dalek sec]

I love when I get a chance to use this image. It's just so fitting.

That's a good one Icyneesan!

This is just dumb idea across the board. Just don't get banned in the first place damnit!

And here's my reaction to the whole thing:

 

[unacomn]

Think of the profits. Kotick would probably green light something like this.

 

[Lunar Templar]

Especially since there aren't very many fun MMORPGs out there anyway, since WoW kills them all.

>.> i can name a few better or more interesting then WoW, its not that there not there, people just don't know how to look

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Haven't seen an Escapist Certified Bad Idea for a while. Loving this one.

 

[Galliam]

Especially since there aren't very many fun MMORPGs out there anyway, since WoW kills them all.

>.> i can name a few better or more interesting then WoW, its not that there not there, people just don't know how to look

Like what for example? Very few MMORPGs have kept me playing but WoW is one that I still have an account and I will occasionally buy a 3 month card. Any others I've played, I quit and never went back.

 

[Evilsanta]

Wow...That is just so sad.

I think the leason that can be learned from this is:
Don't bot you stupid fool!

 

[scw55]

I too find Archeology a boring proffession. Hence why I don't do it

She admits to using a bot. A justified ban.

 

[Sovereignty]

Paying money through envelopes under trees is completely legitimate.

Not to mention completely ninja.

I hope this kid gets their account back. We really don't need a screw up like this playing real games. He'll probably try to mod his PS3 get sued by Sony and... Oh... Wait...

Nevermind.

 

[Formica Archonis]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that nobody at Blizzard would risk their job for a thousand bucks

And yet, it's the best offer I've seen for risking your job violating company policy. Based off things I have personally witnessed (to me or a coworker)....

BRIBES AND/OR REASONS OFFERED TO JEOPARDIZE OUR JOB FOR A STRANGER:
Because her mother just died so she really needed her printer fixed today.
Two bucks in change.
Because he knows someone at the New York Times and will have me on the front page as a horrible person.
Sex. (Parties were in different countries.)
Because he makes more than I do, so I should sacrifice my job for his.
Threats of violence. (Sadly worked because the boss overheard and decided to just give in rather than call the cops.)
Because he's with the FBI.
A hit of some "really good weed".
Because no one had obviously ever said "no" to her in her first 20 years on the planet.
Because denying a refund is the same as rape, so she'll see me in jail for the horrible things I did to her grandson.
A Russian bride. ("My niece is very attractive, wants to come to this country. I could make suggestion....")
An unspecified thing, to be collected at a motel on the edge of town.
A copy of the guy's porn stash.

 

[VegaDane]

Two important issues raised:

1) Yes, archaeology sucks in general (if I say 247 troll solves you'll understand me)
2) This player aptly demonstrates the average level of the wow playerbase

 

[Thumper17]

K, so, for those that don't play WoW, why is Archeology so boring?

 

[Bruden]

lol "I was only botting because I wanted the epic lewt without all the slow boring flying around to collect shit everyone else has to do" great reasoning. Dude totally deserved the ban.

 

[Xelt]

Thing is, soemeone could arrange to get the money via envelope, and then not actually be a blizz employee.

K, so, for those that don't play WoW, why is Archeology so boring?

You have to fly to the dig site, do a survey (pressone button) it points you in the direction you need to move, move a bit, do it again, until you get the fragments. When you have x amount of fragments (50+ usualy i think) you can solve and make an item, most probably junk.
But you -can- get awesome items out of it.

 

[superbatranger]

Paying money through envelopes under trees is completely legitimate.

You can't forget the old briefcase swap.

 

[BabyRaptor]

K, so, for those that don't play WoW, why is Archeology so boring?

To add to what Bobby said, the digsites are scattered all across the various continents, so there's a Fuckton of downtime. And the whole thing is RNG based, with the chances of getting the good stuff being really low.

Example, hopefully in terms you'll understand: There's a certain Alchemy recipe everybody and their Mom wants that makes a mount. This recipe drops out of an artifact called the Canopic Jar, made from a certain race's fragments.

You have 4 digsites on every continent at any given moment. So not only do you have to wait for the specific race's digsites to proc, you have to hope for the Jar to be what you create, and hope the recipe will drop from the Jar. (What artifact you get next is randomly decided for you after you make the one you're currently on.)

 

[Signa]

I join everyone else in mocking this poor dumb bastard, but I do have one little point to make:

Automating a boring and repetitive task isn't cheating. I'm sorry, but it just isn't. Is it breaking the rules? Oh yeah, but that's not the same as cheating. Archaeology is not competitive, you can't "win" it. Using a bot program doesn't (as far as I know) give you an advantage over someone who does the same thing manually, it just frees up your time for watching porn, or whatever else you do.

The biggest fail here is that this dude is so nuts over WoW that he is willing to pay a monthly fee for a game he doesn't actually want to play, and then is willing to pay another grand to keep doing that. The second biggest fail is Blizzard's, for making something in their game so painfully dull and boring that apparently a bunch of people feel the need to automate the process of doing it.

If a crapload of people bot archaeology, maybe Blizzard's first thought shouldn't be "Ban them!" Maybe their first thought should be "Fix archaeology so that it isn't boring as shit."

Wow, a post in this thread that didn't make me rage. I'm getting sick of all the posts around here that are "hurp durp, broken rules. Durp durp." It's like no one actually considers the reason for the rules, or what breaking them actually signifies. I swear no one even thinks that a person in a position to make rules might not be infallible or have some ulterior motive like milking cash from people (I'm speaking quite generally here, not just about WoW and this situation).

So yeah, hats off to you for recognizing the real fails and not the failure to follow every rule.