World of Warcraft player receives 100-year suspension for ‘interrupting in-game BLM protest’

[Niggernerd]

People actually still play WoW?

lol

People still dream of being the next Leeroy Jenkins

 

[idosometimes]

Regarding the veracity of this image, a Reddit user named ErikaThePaladin uploaded the image to site called FotoForensics and remarked:

This would seem to suggest the photo is real. The only point where there’s significant “noise” is where the watermark was added.

Yeah, because no one could create a fraudulent text based message. The technology to do so would be straight out of NASA space mission to Mars! Computers process everything as single images and there is no underlying text used to make them. Impossible to fake that! Impossible.

I have no idea if it is real or not, but using fake internet forensics on an email is such an old person thing to do.

 

[Local Coyote]

>ban people for Hong Kong protests because it's "political" and not because cripplingly addicted Chinese kids make up your userbase
>ban people for calling a BLM protest in WoW gay

You're not that clever, Blizzard.

 

[Fatrick Hamlinson]

There's BLM protests in games now?

It sucks how political everything has become these days. Can't people just chill and forget about politics at least sometimes?

No. It's how they make themselves "unique" and noticed instead of putting effort and hard work into a skill or hobby.

 

[White Devil]

It is kind of sinister how all these faceless, soulless corporations now have Black Lives Matter statements as if they should be determining social policy for us peons.

 

[Screw Danlon]

We have finally reached Snow Crash.

 

[Kheapathic]

Make a game with "War" in its name. Have places like Cross-Roads; or damn near the entire Hillsbrad Zone, where there's always some lunatics ganking on either side. Make so not only can you raid the towns, but it's possible to raid the capital cities and defeat the leaders as well as other NPCs to disrupt questlines and humiliate the other faction. Have places like old Alterac Valley where battles could last hours if not days. Have destruction, murder, and chaos be a defining part of your game; and one of the most memorable events in its history being a massacre at a funeral...

Then a decade plus later, perma-ban someone for being disruptive during an in game protest.

Get fucked Blizz. I'm sorry I ever stepped foot into your office for a fucking interview once upon a time.

 

[Gazed too deep]

Gonna keep it real with you, this sounds fake as all fuck.

 

[Ineedahero]

Gonna keep it real with you, this sounds fake as all fuck.

It does, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was legit sadly.

 

[Smug Chuckler]

There's BLM protests in games now?

It sucks how political everything has become these days. Can't people just chill and forget about politics at least sometimes?

They're having a gay pride parade in the game. I'M NOT KIDDING

 

[Disc]

There's probably a guy and a g.i.r.l. larping out a sexual assault fantasy in moonguard rn, they haven't gotten on that for years.

And again, if this is true, it can only fuck them over when they want to suppress the HK thing.

 

[The Un-Clit]

I was seriously thinking of going back to WoW Vanilla during the start of the shutdown, what better way to enjoy no work than WoW right? Then I remembered how tedious the game was and went back to good games.

WoW was really just a great virtual chatroom with a bad but addictive game attached to it.

You obviously never played EverQuest. Coming from an uberguild where I jeopardized my marriage because guild progression and beating those motherfuckers from <Noble Blade> to the Plane of Time key was MORE IMPORTANT then your anniversary or your kids birthday, MAKE THE RAID OR GTFO, WE ONLY HAVE ONE CHANCE AT THIS!

Dungeons were not instanced - there was only 1 dungeon and only one raid boss per server of approx. 2000 people. Usually on a days to week long respawn cycle. Guilds could (and did) camp mobs for weeks on end, denying anyone else from progressing or getting the rare item. Because of this there were instances of frustrated players "training" or pulling a whole bunch of high powered enemies chasing you into the group of people camping, kill-stealing of rare monsters that dropped powerful items and more. GMs would hand out bans non-stop if this was discovered or reported and this all caused real animosity between guilds in game and on forums.

World of Warcraft was a fucking breath of relaxing fresh air. You could actually level a character to 60 in the space of weeks rather then months ala EQ, even if you were powerlevelled 24/7 with a 60 druid and enchanter covering your ass with damage shields and mana regen. WoW was fucking easy mode.

But ya, should never have any politics involved but Horde guild vs. Alliance guild shit-talking in the Crossroads