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59,000 gold farmers just found themselves on a Blizzard-enforced diaspora from the realms of World of Warcraft; simultaneously, 22 million gold vaporized from the economy. That's almost 400 gold per player... more cash than my level 44 undead rogue has ever seen.
"As part of our efforts to eliminate cheating from World of Warcraft, we recently banned approximately 59,000 World of Warcraft accounts in the month of June, and with that removed well over 22 million gold from the total economy across all realms. While we regret having to take such extreme action, these accounts were participating in activities that directly violated World of Warcraft's Terms of Use, including the use of third-party programs to farm gold and items. Such behavior not only negatively impacts the economy of a realm, it diminishes the achievements of those who play legitimately. We will continue to aggressively monitor all World of Warcraft realms in order to protect the service and our players from the harmful effects of cheating."
It really is astonishing to watch Blizzard cavalierly expel from World of Warcraft as many cheater as some competing MMORPGs have players. Florian Eckhardt
Thats insane, I always wondered why SE never took steps like this?
Edited, Jul 27th 2006 at 3:50pm EDT by Proroc