Blizzard has announced that it has banned more than 120,000 accounts from World of Warcraftguilty of exploiting the ability to easily create a Death Knight class character for misguided purposes.
120,000. This is the number of accounts that Blizzard has just banned. A figure that the company announced in a topic posted on the forums on March 15 to pinpoint a problem related to World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Classic. This popular expansion introduced the Death Knight class, but with much more flexible access conditions than in the classic game. Some people see it as a boon to exploit a loophole.
The Death Knight is a class with the particularity of starting at level 55, which allows you to quickly level up a character to the maximum and, possibly, to take advantage of it (to resell accounts, gold coins or, quite simply, to sow discord on the servers) by using bots. In the expansion originally released, you had to first have a character at level 55 to be able to create a Death Knight – a restriction that Blizzard had removed for the release in the format Word of Warcraft Classic. It is applied again.
On WoW, the Death Knight makes it too easy to cheat
” We thought it was very important for the release of Wrath of the Lich King Classic to allow everyone to get into this iconic expansion without any barriers. Allowing all accounts to play a Death Knight, without historical restrictions, was crucial “, justifies Blizzard. The publisher also recognizes that this generosity constituted ” a vector of temptation for the misguided. »
For many fans, the damage is already done and the historical restriction should never have been lifted – so this is a big mistake on Blizzard’s part. ” I’ll be blunt, this has been ruining a good chunk of the game for months now. Why did it take so long? “, testifies for example Tippytaps. ” The fact that you allowed this for 120,000 accounts is a shame “, abounds PetroIsk. For others, it is better late than never.
Blizzard clears up a bit by recalling that as long as there are bad guys to take advantage of certain cogs, there will be problems. The company states: It is important to remember that as long as there is demand for gold and other services for which players are willing to pay with real money, then there will be misguided individuals who will return. Blizzard is calling for awareness and solidarity to clean up the community. It would first be necessary to start by not extending the stick to be beaten.
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