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.

OMFG SIR, you are disgusting beyond belief. They had NO intention in crashing the server. They had no intention in harming ANYONE. they just wanted to have some fun together with 1000 people. They did nothing wrong at all.

edit: too outrageous I'm sorry.

optical630

United Kingdom768 Posts

July 18 2011 19:34 GMT

#23

On July 19 2011 04:21 smallerk wrote:
He can just buy another account, seriously.

thats not the point, he has spent 6 years playing that character, 6 years of fun, friends and experiences, grinding, items, raids, pvp.. that is alot of time to just start fresh. This isnt like a SC2 account where after 50-100 games you will be back at the league you were in.

he didnt ban the servers on purpose, watch the fucking video where he explicitly states dont spam the chat we dont want to crash the server

the whole event was just for fun on a livestream... and because blizzard are incompetant they decided to ban swifty as the figurehead of the group despite the whole guild taking turns to lead the event.

disgusting.

clik

United States319 Posts

July 18 2011 19:34 GMT

#24

A stern warning for his ignorance on what he might cause but a perma ban is a little over the top. That's a ton of hours, gear, etc gone at the drop of a hat. Not to mention his name and fans he's created or even people he's brought into the game from his content.

I don't feel this will hold for very long as word gets through the ranks at Blizzard.

moltenlead

Canada866 Posts

July 18 2011 19:34 GMT

#25

Well, if WoW was his sole livelyhood, then that really sucks. Kinda feel bad for the guy, since he was only doing what his guild wanted. It isn't like he had a bot make 8000 accounts for him, but he got 8000 new characters. Blizz should be rewarding him or something. Well, another thing is all the contacts he lost. That would be my biggest concern if I was him, the items are re-gettable (except the limited editions).

Furycrab

Canada456 Posts

July 18 2011 19:37 GMT

#26

It's not like he can't appeal the decision...

He's just hoping thousands of people will appeal for him or that he will get more attention for it to his youtube channel. Which is usually not a great way to get an actual appeal by forcing the guys at Blizzard to skim through a couple thousand angry fan emails.

Thorakh

Netherlands1788 Posts

July 18 2011 19:37 GMT

#27

Rofl, his guild was hosting the live event even, why does Blizzard only bans Swifty and not his whole guild. I have a feeling a Game Master will be fired and Swifty's account unbanned seeing the outcry on the WoW battle.net forums (not to mention that is actually the right thing to do).

thane

United States407 Posts

July 18 2011 19:37 GMT

#28

I havent played wow in almost 2 years but back when I played we use to organize huge server wide events and post them on the server forum. Im not sure how like 5k people can crash a server just logging into it. Especially when I played on Blackhand, Blackrock and Illidan which were all high pop or locked servers and I played on them right after content patches and could only remember like 2 or 3 server crashes and I played for 5 years lol.

shawster

Canada2485 Posts

July 18 2011 19:38 GMT

#29

honestly blizzard isn't incompetent enough to keep this ban. he's got 1 million meatriders and he'll get his way.

i guarantee you he'll get unbanned.

Golgotha

Korea (South)8418 Posts

July 18 2011 19:38 GMT

#30

is this really blizzard making the calls? cuz he obviously did not do this on purpose. and the fact that he created so much interest for WoW (newcomers and fans alike) for Blizz all these years....blizz just threw him under the bus.

Excludos

Norway8246 Posts

July 18 2011 19:38 GMT

#31

"After a thorough investigation"..right.. In wow, you're guilty until proven otherwise.

Think of this as Idra suddenly being perma banned from SC2 for hosting a huge competition and accidentally crashing battle.net.

thane

United States407 Posts

July 18 2011 19:39 GMT

#32

On July 19 2011 04:37 Thorakh wrote:
Rofl, his guild was hosting the live event even, why does Blizzard only bans Swifty and not his whole guild. I have a feeling a Game Master will be fired and Swifty's account unbanned seeing the outcry on the WoW battle.net forums (not to mention that is actually the right thing to do).

Im not sure if he had previously been warned because if he has then he got what was coming to him. If not then he should have gotten a warning I mean I knew people who bought and sold gold and they only got warned.

JMDj

United States454 Posts

July 18 2011 19:40 GMT

#33

The thing is they crashed 3 separate servers one after the other, they should have stopped after the first server crashed.

This guy is also terrible (and a major tool) I don't know why he has so many fans.

Thorakh

Netherlands1788 Posts

July 18 2011 19:40 GMT

#34

On July 19 2011 04:39 thane wrote:

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The point is that it's not his fault. It's the fault of all the thousands of people logging making new level ones. Ban them instead, it's their fault. Swifty didn't want to crash servers and yet thousands of morons didn't listen.

Ziktomini

United Kingdom377 Posts

July 18 2011 19:42 GMT

#35

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.

That's not even close, that's like if IdrA had asked people to message himself and got banned for it.

MyLastSerenade

Germany710 Posts

July 18 2011 19:42 GMT

#36

his own fault. i think something like that happend to athene too but he got is account back or wanst perm banned.

PanzerKing

United States483 Posts

July 18 2011 19:42 GMT

#37

I have no sympathy for Swifty. He filmed a bunch of terrible duels and silly "tricks" and sold them to newbie players with too much cash and not enough game knowledge to realize that they were being flim-flammed. The entire package was a combination of common knowledge, low-skill basic PvP tips and ridiculous bugs/exploits. Anyone who bought into his bullshit was completely ripped-off, so I can't bring myself to feel bad knowing that he might have to buy another copy of Cata.

The fact that Razer actually sponsored him is a travesty and a sad joke. I cannot bring myself to say one good thing about this guy.

thatsundowner

Canada312 Posts

July 18 2011 19:43 GMT

#38

On July 19 2011 04:38 Excludos wrote:
"After a thorough investigation"..right.. In wow, you're guilty until proven otherwise.

Think of this as Idra suddenly being perma banned from SC2 for hosting a huge competition and accidentally crashing battle.net.

the difference is battle.net is built to handle lots of players, WoW is split up into hundreds of servers with the population on each server split across the world to specifically avoid gatherings like this. the guy knew what he was doing when he got thousands of people to crowd into one area, maybe his intention wasn't to specifically crash the server but anyone who isn't a complete retard is going to know what the outcome is here

zeru

8156 Posts

July 18 2011 19:43 GMT

#39

--- Nuked ---

redFF

United States3910 Posts

July 18 2011 19:44 GMT

#40

On July 19 2011 04:33 Xiron wrote:

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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.