As my as i despise this guy (ill explain) this wasn't justified. If the servers cant cope with the traffic, i dont think he was to blame, this has been done countless times before and has never (afaik) resulted in a ban.
Swifty made a very entertaining movie a lot of years back (5?), after this he got high on his fame and tried to sell the next ones (about 10$ for a 20min wow film...) (fanboys seem to have forgotten this these days). He since made a lot (and i mean a metric shit-ton of movies on his youtube channel, all offering mediocre/wrong advice to players and having the most bias opinions of all time. He has done so much dodgy ingame in the past, i think this is karma, i can post more if someone cares.
On July 19 2011 08:50 integrity wrote: i think it funny the fact that almost every fourm that i viste on a regular basis either related to wow or not are all talking about swifty
seriously.. since when was the last time anything wow related got mentioned in mainstream gaming?
Swifty fucked up man, This is what happened from blizzard point of view, first time swifty did this he crashed the server, and then got warned, he then proceed to do that same event in 3 other servers. (the event: anyone on his stream that can find him gets a prize) So shit ton of ppl spam those servers during those events, and when the server crashes, they all open GM tickets. Blizz GM team literally got over 10k Tickets in under 2 minutes. It was by no accident that swifty did this shit, he knew what was ganna happen, stop playing innocent and have thousands of his fan boys calling blizzard and whine about unban swifty all day long, holy shit man.
On July 19 2011 08:02 zz_ wrote: Oh shit. I remember his fury pvp video back from...hell, I don't even know when, vanilla sometime.
That sucks :/
One of the better PvP videos ever made, back when fury was considered a build you couldn't go if you were playing seriously.
pretty sure he used to just copy whatever laintime was doing at the time lol, but yea he was interesting. I just don't see why so many people think this is such an issue
I like Swifty, but he did deserve the ban. Like it or not, the only reason they managed to get so many people was because of his popularity. Also, I don't know what's up, but why is he changing shirts so many times in that video? :O
He definitely deserves a lengthy ban for preventing others from being able to the game (essentially the worst activity you can do in a video-game, because it completely disables others from playing), and I don't think 6-12 months is out of the question, but a permanent ban seems a bit too much. I was heavily into hardcore PvP for a long time and most people involved knew of/knew him, and I don't have a problem with his attitude and what not, I just don't feel someone should be able to completely deny service to players (along with costing the company time and effort) and get away with it.
so basically from what i took from the video was that he gathered a whole boatload of people from his stream and crashed the server spamming etc. I agree with the ban, not perma, unless the people all wen't to his location on their own, so can you really ban one guy for being the one everyone followed?
Regardless of Swifty being banned or not, this event showed me how Blizzard really neglects community events. It's true that what Swifty did leave a huge mess of Blizzards side, however the perma-banned sends a message that no one should ever do such community events like this ever again. Instead of showing gamers how to have fun responsibly, they just lock everyone up and kick them out of the party.
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