lmao i can understand why blizz did this in a way. But saying that crashing it is unexcusable is a bit funny. So what? a few 12 year old nerds shouted to their moms from the basement that the computer was broken. Might introduce some people to this thing we call daylight :p
id be pretty miffed if this happened to SC2 during a ladder session, but i wouldnt be pissed at the person that did it, id just get on with my life and realise i can come back and play this video game in a few hours or something.
does suck for him though, especially if he didnt mean it. I hope he gets apologies from everyone of his 'fans' that caused thi
Well he has gone downwards in his videos after the incredible swifty vids and is nowadays mostly just razer ad random pvp vid razer ad win razer by thumbs up fav. Kinda meh but would suck to be him if I liked wow as much as him. Tho now he can go and do more sports!
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.
There's a huge fucking difference.
1) IdrA's original 2 day ban was apparently over calling CrunCher a "waste of life" on his fan page.
2) Swifty's permaban was over a Razer livestreaming event crashing a realm 3 times because level 1s were spamming excessively and crashing it. Apparently, according to stories, it was a guildmate called Zybak who may have provoked the spamming. Swifty had in-fact discouraged it on the livestream. There's proof even in the video the OP linked.
3) IdrA's ban was extended to 90 days because he told his followers to PM Chill about how they felt about his two day suspension, resulting in a lot of undeserved hate-mail. TL only extended his ban after they found crystal clear that IdrA had actually provoked the hate-PMs towards Chill maliciously. Swifty did no such thing to provoke the triple server crash....
To put it bluntly, IdrA's motives were more malicious than Swifty's. Besides, it was apparently Zybak, not Swifty who encouraged the spamming that likely crashed the realm 3 times.
They guy's been banned and warned before and goes on crashing servers three times. Even if he didn't intend to crash them, if you don't get the message after the second crash you're god damn stupid and deserves whatever e-penalty they decide on. Good call.
Disingenuous OP aswell, only telling one part of the story.
On July 19 2011 04:32 shawster wrote: 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.
If I were him, I'd just start a WoW boycott and focus on other games on my channel, like Starcraft II (even if it's the same company) or a non-Blizzard related game.
I think a figure as significant as him in the WoW community could do some major damage to the so called 'unkillable MMO'
"My Blizzard Masters, we still have thousands upon thousands of gold farmers, regular users have access to grind, level and fish bots for free and some are even undetectable. But we did ban Swifty.
Man that video was really sad, I can't belive it, I would think that if he talk to blizzard he could get them to just give him a suspenston of somthing. Like a warning don't do that again or we will ban you.
Cuz hes Athene best gamer in the world with broccoli soup
While I support Athene being a good samaritan about the whole thing, and agreeing with his point of view that Swifty got banned for pretty much doing nothing wrong, I don't think helping Swifty get his level 85 character, gear and rating back from grinding on a new account is going to teach Blizzard a lesson to not ban people for retarded reasons.
And by 'retarded reasons', I mean Swifty didn't maliciously intend it.
EDIT: Looks like his permaban has provoked others to try and crash Blizzard's servers.
Well, I think this is just more evidence that Blizzard's customer support has turned to rubbish.
I highly doubt they will unban him they're pretty unwavering when they hand our perma-bans, regardless of the circumstances, which is stupid because the whole thing is recorded and they have all the information they need to make a fair decision, yet will refuse to.
If it had been anyone else blizzard's respone would have been completely appropriate. Crashing three servers in a row is obviously a bannable trangression. However, there are a few things that should be considered in Swifty's case:
1. he's been playing for 6 years, and has previously caused zero problems 2. he's contributed a lot to a large number of WoW players 3. his intentions were not malicious; he wanted to hold a fun event and wasn't thinking straight
Still, I have to admire blizzard's balls to know that his fanbase would backlash so hard and still decide to ban him. I just think a suspension would have been more appropriate in this situation.
This is nonsense. Blizzard allows X people to log onto a server, then allow Y messages to be sent, which causes a crash. Whose fault is that now?
Learn what your servers can handle, and take appropriate precautions. Its not this dudes fault that WoW servers are unstable.
EDIT:
3. his intentions were not malicious; he wanted to hold a fun event and wasn't thinking straight
THIS. How many other blogs/groups do the same thing weekly? WOW Insider's It Came from the Blog events come to mind. Here is your ban cause you had too many follower/friends? Shitty!
On July 19 2011 07:25 Sententia wrote: If it had been anyone else blizzard's respone would have been completely appropriate. Crashing three servers in a row is obviously a bannable trangression. However, there are a few things that should be considered in Swifty's case:
1. he's been playing for 6 years, and has previously caused zero problems 2. he's contributed a lot to a large number of WoW players 3. his intentions were not malicious; he wanted to hold a fun event and wasn't thinking straight
Still, I have to admire blizzard's balls to know that his fanbase would backlash so hard and still decide to ban him. I just think a suspension would have been more appropriate in this situation.
From Blizzard's point of view #3 is really the only relevant thing he has going for him.
It should be enough to revoke the ban by itself though. He didn't set this up to purposely crash servers he tried to hold an event and Blizzard's servers couldn't handle it. They ban him for that?
This just makes me even more glad that I haven't paid them any money for WoW in almost a year now.
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