I'm not really a Swifty fan, but there are some people who will be very upset to hear that Swifty has been perma-banned from World of Warcraft.
Allegedly, when running a live streaming event with his guild, he started a contest, and hundreds (if not thousands) of people created characters on his realm, all went to the spot of the contest, and some started spamming the chat.
This resulted in a server crash, and Swifty was approached by a GM who told him he was in violation.
Swifty is a World of Warcraft personality, with 158,000 subscribers on Youtube. He posts videos about Player vs Player (PvP), specializing in Warrior combat for duels, and arena battles. He is sponsored by Razer, and constantly gives away Razer gear to subscribers on Youtube.
He obviously makes his living off of WoW, so being banned is definitely a problem.
Best of luck to the man, whether you think he deserved it or not, being 'fired' always sucks.
It wasn't just starting an event, getting thousands of people together and crashing the zone that caused the perma-ban.
It was doing that 3 times, to 3 different servers one after another. Crashing a server on accident, would be warning worthy, but doing it, and then doing it to another because you can is inexcusable.
One of the few players I still remember from my years in WoW, always had a bunch of crafty tools in his PvP videos, was fun to watch. Too bad he got banned I guess.
This really sucks. Maybe he can start a new series where he goes from 1-80 or something? I know that isn't really his 'thing', since all of his fame was built off of PvP videos, but if he can't get the ban reversed he will have to end up doing something to keep his channel going.
I never understood why Swifty was so popular. He is terrible at PvP... I dont consider myself a great player, and even I beat Swifty's team in the arena back in the day.
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That's terrible. Was hosting a tournament against the ToS or something?
No, thousands of people created a new character and logged in to the same realm at the same time and this resulted in the entire server to crash. This then happened several times, to several realms.
On July 19 2011 04:21 zeru wrote: Well deserved. Pretty stupid thing to do. Reminds me of idra telling people to spam chill on TL... kind of. They should've banned everyone participating too.
He wasn't telling people to spam and didn't intend to crash the server either.
On July 19 2011 04:27 thatsundowner wrote: purposefully organizing a huge gathering of people to spam chat and crash the server, frankly i'm shocked he got banned for it
Some people seem to have trouble reading/watching. He did not intend to crash the server.
He was not doing it on purpose. This is ridiculous. How is telling your viewers to not spam and crash the server 'trying to spam and crash the server'. Bullshit. If anything all the level one's that got made should be permabanned, not Swifty.
On July 19 2011 04:27 thatsundowner wrote: purposefully organizing a huge gathering of people to spam chat and crash the server, frankly i'm shocked he got banned for it
Some people seem to have trouble reading/watching. He did not intend to crash the server.
if he didn't realize what would happen then he's dumber than i thought, plus you really don't know his intentions.
as much as i hate him for being bad/making videos or w/e (he's the rwj of WoW) this shouldn't have happened to him.
i don't think his intention was to purposely crash servers. if it was then well i guess he deserves it. if he gets banned i don't really think it'll affect him much, he'll grind another war back to 85 in a week and be geared in like 2 months.
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