Blizzard bans 5,400 WoW cheaters, suspends an additional 10,700

by James Ransom-Wiley { Apr 12th 2006 at 4:25PM }

Following the release of patch 1.10, Blizzard has continued its aggressive stance against World of Warcraft cheaters. Today, a Blizzard rep revealed that 5,400 accounts have been banned since the patch was introduced. In addition, 10,700 accounts have been suspended. Blizzard encourages players to report cheaters to hacks@blizzard.com.

In related news, a group of reputed gold farmers have launched a "Stop Snitchin'" campaign to protect their assets. T-shirts are on sale for $20.

Tags: Blizzard, cheater, gold farm, gold farmer, GoldFarm, GoldFarmer, World of Warcraft, WorldOfWarcraft, WoW

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

renaldo @ Apr 12th 2006 4:36PM

I really like that picture.

I dont know how many people will get the joke though.

Sabre @ Apr 12th 2006 4:39PM

Sold gold farmers launched a campaign wanting people to basically stop telling on them. Well based on that is sounds like they know its wrong...so it's good that they banned em.

spoo @ Apr 12th 2006 4:50PM

But they still haven't fixed the servers.

Paul @ Apr 12th 2006 4:52PM

Count at least one person who didn't get the joke, renaldo. I'm looking at you, #2!

Very funny, Joystiq, I don't know how you manage to make these images so funny so quick sometimes.

ronnie @ Apr 12th 2006 4:59PM

I played that game for a few months about a year ago, i don't understand how there were still server problems, parts of the game we're unplayable.

rob @ Apr 12th 2006 5:03PM

Hi, i don't play the game but whats the cheating? What do they do?

Sloopydrew @ Apr 12th 2006 5:18PM

James,

If you woulda cut about an 8th of an inch off of your photoshop pic, I would have thought it was some guy in a weird rubber-mask actually standing on the street. At the top of the pic, there's a space where you can see the horns are cropped. Anyway, good job. You nearly had this non-WoW player fooled.

Gold Farmer @ Apr 12th 2006 5:38PM

Snitches get stitches

fawazr @ Apr 12th 2006 5:50PM

Wait... the Stop Snitchin' campaign was started by gold farmers? And here I thought it was started by murderous, cutthroats and thugs in their efforts to terrorize do-gooders. Or are gold farmers considered organized crime now?

inferno @ Apr 12th 2006 5:59PM

So, is buying farmed gold cheating or is using 3rd party programs to automate gold farming bad?

Adam @ Apr 12th 2006 6:09PM

Hey thanks Blizzard! You took your time to ban all those nasty cheaters, but it seems that your account creation page has been down for 2 days.
Yup, I spent $50 on a pretty box and a whole lot of aggrivation.

Sabre @ Apr 12th 2006 6:13PM

Oh...woops...I quickly read it while taking care of other stuff. LOL

Either way if you're farming gold then you deserve to be banned...I don't care what the argument is.

DarthMoridin @ Apr 12th 2006 6:22PM

Look for one of the banned to get their blog on digg.com very shortly. Waaaa!

thomas_h @ Apr 12th 2006 6:24PM

if SOE did that they'd be banning like half of all their subscribers.

thomas_h @ Apr 12th 2006 7:02PM

( for SW Galaxies )

vectorelement @ Apr 13th 2006 1:21AM

"Reputed" and "gold farmers" in the same sentence? That's quite contradictory.

Two nights ago, [a farmer] tried to sell me a quest item (Slightly Creased Note?) for 3 gold right in front of the Orgrimmar auction house.

..........yeah.

Then he/she continued to whisper me; one line read, "cao ni ma." I have no idea what that means, but someone had whispered that to me once before, probably thinking I was another one of them. I have a feeling that it's derogatory.