Swifty (WoW PvP) Perma-Banned - Page 15

On July 19 2011 10:20 NotSorry wrote:


Yes he can just buy another account and already has many other accounts

On July 19 2011 10:16 Z3kk wrote:
So can he or can he not just buy another account? o_o

On July 19 2011 10:26 Medrea wrote:


First you have to buy the game.

Then you have to buy the first expansion.

Then you have to buy the second expansion.

Then you have to buy the third expansion.

Now you can play the game.

On July 19 2011 10:29 eYeball wrote:


Don't forget gamecard(s).

On July 19 2011 10:30 Medrea wrote:

Well yeah and keep subscribing.
Point being "ROFL BUY ANOTHER ACCOUNT NOOB" is a lot heavier in WoW.

On July 19 2011 04:44 redFF wrote:

Calm down lol. Apparently he crashed the server more than once. It's blizzard's game to do with what they like, if he broke the TOS somehow then they are well within their rights to ban him.

On July 19 2011 10:35 Xevious wrote:
This is honestly just fucking pathetic. Swifty mass promotes Blizzard's game by spreading it across youtube and live streams, has probably recruited hundreds if not thousands of people to the game. Now he's permabanned for organizing a live event which continued to promote the game, it also happened to crash one of Blizzard's servers because they apparently can't afford good enough servers to handle that many people despite making hundreds of millions of dollars off of wow subs and game sales.

On July 19 2011 10:26 Medrea wrote:


First you have to buy the game.

Then you have to buy the first expansion.

Then you have to buy the second expansion.

Then you have to buy the third expansion.

Now you can play the game.

On July 19 2011 10:41 m2e wrote:
It's blizzards fault for not having a cut-off limit on the amount of players that can logon on one server. Why wasnt there a login queue of some sort implemented when the server reaches capacity? It's just another way for blizzard to not admit fault and pass the blame without getting their hands dirty or taking responsibility for poor prep and not taking the proper precautions if an event of this magnitude were to ever occur.

On July 19 2011 10:35 Xevious wrote:
This is honestly just fucking pathetic. Swifty mass promotes Blizzard's game by spreading it across youtube and live streams, has probably recruited hundreds if not thousands of people to the game. Now he's permabanned for organizing a live event which continued to promote the game, it also happened to crash one of Blizzard's servers because they apparently can't afford good enough servers to handle that many people despite making hundreds of millions of dollars off of wow subs and game sales.

On July 19 2011 11:10 spacek wrote:
he's unbanned

Update: Swifty got unbanned. Stay tuned on his channel. Thanks to everyone for their support.

On July 19 2011 11:10 spacek wrote:
he's unbanned

On July 19 2011 10:59 Mauldo wrote:


There's a difference between "good enough servers" and "servers that can handle thousands of new people making new characters and spamming the chat ALL AT ONCE." No server can fucking handle that. None.

It'd be one thing if he did this once. I remember a time back when Horde was attacking Ironforge, so some guy had everyone in the area make a level one mage and spam "Conjure Water" or whatever it's called in the king's chamber. It spammed out the server and it crashed. So the world reset, and the Horde would have had to fight their way there all over again. They did that once, then went about their day.

This guy did it how many times? Three? The first time would have been a "Oh shit, we did that. Shouldn't do it again" type of thing. But he probably laughed, then said "Well, let's try again" and did it two more times. That goes beyond an accident and into purposefully screwing with WoW's servers for the lulz. Dude should have known better.

And 150,000 subscribers is what percentage out of the 7 million currently subscribed? I know not one of my friends even know who he is. He had a following, but if you go ask a random server in Trade Chat "Hey, who's Swifty," the odds you'd get more than twenty people saying they know him are insanely low. It sounds like some guy who got sponsored by Razer got stupid, and so the vocal minority are raising hell over it. You know what? He was being stupid. It's the same thing when a kid breaks his leg by jumping from the ceiling of his house. You'd say "Well, kid was being stupid. Take him to the hospital." Swifty was being stupid, ban his ass.

And saying "it's safe to say" that he makes his living off of this is hilarious. We don't know how much Razer is paying him, and we don't know how much Youtube is paying him for his cut of the ad revenue from those subscribers. Dude could be an investment banker for all we know and works from home. No need for assumptions.



They've bundled all of that together by now. He'd have to pay full price for Cata probably, but you can basically upgrade from Vanilla-->BC-->WOTLK for probably 50 bucks. They'd get 100 bucks from him that they didn't have before. Are you really trying to make that argument?