Linux player booted from WoW
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Well strike one for Linux using WoW (World of Warcraft) players! If you are a WoW enthusiast and someone that plays via WINE, the following may be something that you will want to follow pretty closely.
A WoW player has been booted from the online game World of Warcraft for using the Wine emulator over the Linux operating system and a macro programmable keyboard.
The bloke, who is a network network engineer for an ISP, reports his experiences with the Blizzard administrators here. He thinks that the use of Wine might affect the software Blizzard use to detect third party programs designed to cheat the game. Source: The Inquirer
[tags]linux,world of warcraft,blizzard,wow,wine,emulator[/tags]
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Jargin
October 3rd, 2007
at 11:38am
He programmed the keyboard to play the game for him. He was boting. It had nothing to do with the fact that he was running linux. Blizz developers tested WoW on Linux using Wine to make sure that they could reach the widest range of consumers possible. Serveral of my guildies and myself have been playing WoW on Linux for a long time and haven’t had any trouble. I use a macro programmable keyboard too, but I don’t make macros to perform actions that aren’t humanly possible.