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Swifty Banned. Thoughts?
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Post by
Interest
Why wouldn't I? He's a great player with a great attitude who can come across as an inspiration to players everywhere (this is a little bit of an exaggeration, but not by much. He really is a good player in more ways than one).
Post by
Delom
I just came back to WoW after watching some of his videos, now I don't think I'll stay for another month. I don't even play a warrior. =/
EDIT: His fans just crashed the server again.
Post by
Rankkor
I owe everything I know of pvp to that guy. Unlike that "Athene" who (for reasons that ellude me) believes himself to be a bigshot, swifty actually made good videos. He wasnt just a good player, he taught other players how to be just as good as he was, and was good at teaching it.
Quite frankly, this is one move that will come back to bite blizzard in the ass. Ok, he caused a server-crash by having 4500 people in the same area, it wasn't done on purpose, he could be suspended for a week, hell, maybe a month, but a perma-ban? without any investigations? without warning shots? without a "dont do that again"?
that's just bulls*bleep*t
Why wouldn't I? He's a great player with a great attitude who can come across as an inspiration to players everywhere (this is a little bit of an exaggeration, but not by much. He really is a good player in more ways than one).
you are correct, he is a cool guy, and what I admire of him is that he's not just settled with being good at what he does, he teaches others to be just as good as he is.
This entire thing is sickening.
Post by
ElhonnaDS
I'm sure he can appeal. I had a friend who got banned constantly, because he seems compulsively says the most obnoxious things possible in any given situation. He said that if he complained loud enough and long enough, he always got his account back.
Post by
124027
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
Sweetscot
Blizz can ban anyone they want, whenever they want, that's (part of) what you agree to every time there's a big patch.
However I don't think that he's the only one that should get banned, the whole bunch of them that were instigating it should be, and he is admittedly NOT the one that was really pushing the idea...but it was still his contest which clearly promoted mass server spamming of level 1s so he should get in trouble for it. Now as to whether it should be perma or not...well that's up to Blizz and we already see their take on it.
Post by
mecheye
I don't even know who Swifty is, but its still total @#$%.
What the hell is up with this?
Post by
xaratherus
I don't even know who Swifty is
Ditto.
Post by
Problimatic
I don't like the fact servers were crashed even though it was accidental, but I think a perma ban is a bit harsh for an unintentional no warning thing. Plus if they are banning him for "crashing servers" shouldn't they be banning the like 5000 other people that were with him? I think they are scapegoating him.
Post by
Atik
I don't even know who Swifty is
Ditto.
First time I've heard of him as well...
I know Jesse Cox, Nhym, GiGi, ect.
Post by
Azazel
Come on Blizz, ban fanboys, not Swifty.
Post by
OverZealous
I don't like the fact servers were crashed even though it was accidental, but I think a perma ban is a bit harsh for an unintentional no warning thing. Plus if they are banning him for "crashing servers" shouldn't they be banning the like 5000 other people that were with him? I think they are scapegoating him.
They definetly are, but they are missing the fact that it's coming back to bite them in the ass already. It's quite amusing, to be honest. I'm fairly convinced they'll give him his account back sooner rather than later.
Post by
MrSCH
He's some kind of martyr!
Post by
Lenience
There's a plethora of Swifty-related threads that are being deleted one by one on the wow forums.
Coming and going.
Post by
Fjobben
Swifty is a warrior player in WoW and 'was' uploading regularly videos on youtube, mostly PvP. That's nothing special except that he was a smart and decent guy who put effort in his videos, and did dedicated uploads showing him dueling against all classes.
He also showed some outdoor activity in his videos, which I personally think is the most cool part of them.
Post by
Sweetscot
There's just the little problem of the crashes not all being unintentional...it was said in the live feed that they should crash servers (not by swifty) and it wasn't only 1 server affected. Had it been one crash on accident and they called a halt then that would be one thing...this is something else that does deserve blizz action.
Post by
Haxzor
Swifty is Warrior PvP
Post by
MrSCH
Watch the Youtube vid. You can see Swifty, during the livestream, telling people explicitly
not
to crash the servers.
Post by
138638
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Post by
MrSCH
Once more, it wasn't even his raid.
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