Swifty (WoW PvP) Perma-Banned - Page 11

On July 19 2011 07:04 Clbull wrote:

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.

On July 19 2011 07:37 nalgene wrote:

Do you have an exact quote word for word? Since you did use "malicious"...

On July 19 2011 07:35 Torte de Lini wrote:
Why couldn't it have been a temp. banned.
And vice-versa, why didn't he consider the repercussions to his idea/contest?

On July 19 2011 07:37 cryL wrote:
er, getting banned really doesn't matter at all anymore - take a couple of weeks for him to relevel and regrind rating and gear >_> Might be worth kicking up a stink over back in the hwl days if he got banned and lost hwl rank (like funhoofs did because an opposing guild got him falsely banned so they could boost one of their ppl to hwl) all a big hoopla over nothing.

On July 19 2011 07:35 Torte de Lini wrote:
Why couldn't it have been a temp. banned.
And vice-versa, why didn't he consider the repercussions to his idea/contest?

On July 19 2011 07:40 turamn wrote:


You really think that anyone goes..."Oh man, I hope the server doesn't crash." When new content comes out, if everyone congregates in one area and the server goes down, does everyone get banned?

If Blizzard is holding this community event or whatever, and the server crashes, they don't give one shit. It's just the way it's going to be. I don't know this dude or anything about him, but it's pretty obvious from the content that's been posted that he had absolutely no intention of bringing down the server and was just going to have some innocent fun. How is he supposed to know the limitations of Blizzard's hardware? You'd like a billion dollar company would have the latest and greatest servers and would be able to handle this type of thing.

They are basically shitting all over their community. No one will want to hold a community event or anything anymore, because if a stick of RAM goes bad or something and the server goes down, someone's just going to get banned.

There's millions of gold farmers, exploiters, speed hackers etc that run amok on that game daily, and they get away with it, but this is just ridiculous. This is the absolute peak of a major corporation not giving a shit about a player or what they might contribute to their community and just shitting all over them when something goes wrong.

On July 19 2011 07:42 JiYan wrote:

telling everyone to meet in a location logically doesnt really create any problems. to me its a lot like if every streamer decided to tell their viewers to all watch day9 and day9's stream overloaded and crashed justin.tv. i think it was just an accident that couldnt really have been forseen =\

On July 19 2011 07:40 turamn wrote:


You really think that anyone goes..."Oh man, I hope the server doesn't crash." When new content comes out, if everyone congregates in one area and the server goes down, does everyone get banned?

If Blizzard is holding this community event or whatever, and the server crashes, they don't give one shit. It's just the way it's going to be. I don't know this dude or anything about him, but it's pretty obvious from the content that's been posted that he had absolutely no intention of bringing down the server and was just going to have some innocent fun. How is he supposed to know the limitations of Blizzard's hardware? You'd like a billion dollar company would have the latest and greatest servers and would be able to handle this type of thing.

They are basically shitting all over their community. No one will want to hold a community event or anything anymore, because if a stick of RAM goes bad or something and the server goes down, someone's just going to get banned.

There's millions of gold farmers, exploiters, speed hackers etc that run amok on that game daily, and they get away with it, but this is just ridiculous. This is the absolute peak of a major corporation not giving a shit about a player or what they might contribute to their community and just shitting all over them when something goes wrong.

On July 19 2011 06:34 Esel wrote:

Have you ever played WoW and got hacked ? You just cant do it

On July 19 2011 07:44 Favorite wrote:


He's supposed to know the limitations of Blizzard's hardware when the server crashes once... but then he goes to try it again a 2nd time. then a 3rd.

On July 19 2011 07:48 turamn wrote:


I'm not going to pretend to know what his intentions were with the secondary and tertiary crashes. You'd have to imagine that an intelligent person would know that it was them causing it,

Do we have the number of people in the area that it took to crash it? I'm pretty curious to what it took to bring their hardware down, seeing as it is a MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER game.

On July 19 2011 07:51 TheRabidDeer wrote:

You can watch one of the videos posted here to see how many there are. I highly doubt anybody has taken the time to count each individual player, but it is surely in the thousands.

Also, again... as I have stated this before... had all of the people been in different parts of the game world it wouldnt have crashed.