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

I really like that picture.

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

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.

But they still haven't fixed the servers.

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.

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.

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

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.

Snitches get stitches

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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

( for SW Galaxies )

"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.

According to a quick google search, "cao ni ma" is NSFBK...

rather offensive...