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@Hippie, you realize TW no longer owns AOL, right?

Wow, really? You're actually admitting to doing this? Not only that you sound like you intend on doing it more.

Honestly, I'm intrigued, whenever I see a beggar in a game I imagine the person being some 10 year old rat-faced boy. How old are you, and do you have an overbite?

Saddle up gents, you're all in for a long bumpy ride.

The bigger and more complex your base is, the more apt to bugs it becomes. Find me one project as popular as this one that has had 0 bug reports filed for a tagged release.

I do agree that the scale of some of these bugs should have thrown up red flags in testing. Though, I find it surprising that you are given the authority to post on this site without parental permission. This article echos all of the anger-fueled garbled posts by children on the wow forums.

I admit, at first I was down on mutilate because it was hard. Then I realized, hey, this SHOULD be hard. It is such a refreshing change in rogue mechanics. After you get used to it it becomes like second nature.

It's always the first knee-jerk reaction when you see your pathetic rank on the meters to lash out about how everything but the player is wrong. I'm sure that 80% of the good mutilate rogues were there at one point.

Stick with it, it's actually fun.

Arshavir, you essentially said what everyone else said in reply to me. I understand you want to jump on the bandwagon too, but please, have something original to bring to the table.

And to answer your last comment "rethink your views", maybe you should rethink yours as my view seems to be the minority. The arguments that have been brought to the table to combat mine are weak and overplayed, and you have brought nothing more.

You are all failing to realize that this case is not just about botting. This case has set the precedence for all future TOS cases. This could be you one day, Arshavir. Make sure you don't break any rules in that 30 page terms of service.

Please, for 5 seconds stop being the anti-bot zealots (which wreaks of uneducated patriotism), and think of the developer in this case. Put yourself in his shoes. He's a developer, not the botter. Something is very very wrong, you must admit.

While I understand what you are all saying, the numbers don't add up. Are we 100% sure that the 6 million dollars to be paid by the developer is justified? Did blizzard really spend 6 million to combat this? If I was the developer I would both be flattered and frightened at the same time.

When a cheater is found in Vegas they get banned, or at the worst they get their knees shattered. To my knowledge there has never been a civil case based like this brought to the stage by a casino.

Let's not overlook the method in which was used to pinpoint the cheaters here. The tactics can only be described as an intrusive privacy violation. WoW is one big hunk of spyware, find me something to the contrary.

Sending a message to other would-be persons doesn't do a thing. If you haven't read up on Kevin Mitnick, do it now. The courts used him as a scare tactic to dissuade new hackers. Yet the last time I checked, we still have people breaking into computers.

Please remember he did not DO the cheating himself, he provided a product that many users used for cheating. Why not blame Microsoft for providing the C# framework which was used in the development of this application? Oh yeah, that's absurd...Right?

Sorry do I have to preface this with "Oh I don't agree with the blah blah blah?"

Independent software developers often get the shaft. In this case it may end up being a huge shaft. I feel for the guy and I hope he comes out with a not-so-hefty fine.

Blizzard went into this with the sole purpose of getting glider shut down.

Blizzard came out of this with dollar signs in their eyes.

Paying for "Damages" is a vague way of saying "we want more". A gluttonous, greedy, disgusting company Blizzard has become.

Are those lizard eyes on Clinton?

Is it just me, or did this video make a (what seemed like a) good game, look really boring.

Horde!