Back in October 2009, Blizzard sued Alyson Reeves over the private World of Warcraft servers she offered through her company, Scapegaming. On August 10, Blizzard won a default judgement against Reeves/Scapegaming and was awarded $88.5 million. Now World of Warcraft private servers are fairly common, and some are fairly interesting variants that do things Blizzard…
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In February, Blizzard and Upper Deck both issued statements surrounding the World of Warcraft: Trading Card Game which Upper Deck had published since its release in 2006. Coincidentally, the announcement came shortly after Upper Deck reached a settlement with Konami over the Yu-Gi-Oh! trading card game. Until December 2008, Upper Deck had been the distributor…
So on February 3, 2010, I checked my email on my way to work to find this lovely message, From: WoWAccountAdmin@blizzard.com To: brian@carnell.com Subject: World of Warcraft — Account Closure Notification — Exploitative Activity Found English speaking customers: Please refer to the start of this mail Para los clientes españoles: Por favor vayan hasta el…
Some developers of add-ons for World of Warcraft were so angered by Blizzard’s new policy essentially forbidding the creation of add-ons that are commercial or feature in-game donation buttons that they have pulled their add-ons from public distribution. This includes some very popular add-ons, such as Outfitter, QuestHelper, and Group Calendar. John Stephen, the developer…
Last year I mentioned Blizzard’s physical token authenticator, which was an effort to crack down on theft of World of Warcraft accounts. I actually ended up ordering one of these, but never actually enabled it because it would be another device I need to keep track of and I’d probably lose it the day after…
Blizzard recently updated its UI Add-On Policy for World of Warcraft with the intent of pretty much banning any commercial WoW add-ons. 1) Add-ons must be free of charge. All add-ons must be distributed free of charge. Developers may not create “premium” versions of add-ons with additional for-pay features, charge money to download an add-on,…