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Swifty Banned. Thoughts?
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138638
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Post by
Azazel
Haters gonna hate.
Post by
Monday
Once more, it wasn't even his raid.
He and guildies he chose were in charge of the livestream, something as simple as shutting off the livestream which he and a few of his guildies had the power to do, would have made it so they couldn't shut down anymore servers do to lack of organization, he could've stopped it if he wanted to he didn't.
If your in charge of babysitting some kids and while under your watch end up burning themselves, are you not responsible?
If you tell the kids to stay away from the stove, and they still burn themselves despite your attempts to stop them, are you still to blame?
Post by
TheLifelessOne
If you tell the kids to stay away from the stove, and they still burn themselves despite your attempts to stop them, are you still to blame?
If the kids burn themselves, you should have been watching them a little bit better.
Post by
MrSCH
God's alive man, how can you compare looking after children to a video game over the internet? Analogies are analogies but jeez.....
Anyway, exectorvqk, you are right. Swifty and his guildies shouldn't be allowed to livestream, or to be popular, because that will lead to the server being crashed every time amirite.
Post by
Azazel
Popularity must be banned, duh.
Post by
Azazel
Also, the Swifty thread on mmo-champ has 38 pages lol.
Post by
138638
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138638
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Post by
Sweetscot
It appears they're still making Darkspear unplayable...it is ridiculous that these people are behaving like this. I don't envy the blizz gms that are going to have to go through the chat logs and try to find the real players from the ones needing banned.
Post by
Cambo
Gee, some of these posts are plain silly.
500 people cram into a local McDonalds, the store runs out of food and then removes either the instigator or the people. Then people throw a #$%^&fit and blame McDonalds.
Because of the lack of food, this affects other customers who were not involved in the flashmobbing.
Some of you don't know what
player collision
is. It is a term by developers given to a phenomenon when too many players are concentrated in one small area. This gives lag to many players, and affects server performance. In extreme cases the server crashes or shuts itself down. Blizzard have very little control over the technical capabilities of their servers. So they have to revert to controlling the players.
If Swifty did not mean to cause a server crash, then that's fine. But players are massing at that location
because of Swifty
.
What's worse, banning Swifty or banning 500+ players?
Post by
Treskol
Inadvertantly or not, Blizzard just banned one of the few people still advertising the game for them, and he seems to be one of the few people PvPing and actually enjoying it.
His videos weren't top level play, but what he did was admirable and he didn't deserve the amount of stick he received from places like AJ.
He'll get his account back, you just gotta scream till they hear you out.
Post by
Interest
Athene responds.
And I need to make a Youtube clip on this sometime too.
Post by
Sneetch
This whole situation right now is amazing, I'll admit the amount of rage this has caused is astounding. Blizzard, Trolls of the Year. But anyhow, time for my opinion I guess.
I feel like this whole thing got blown out of proportion, and that it was a bit unfair for Swifty. Can't argue with Blizz though, as they can ban you for any reason at all. What boggles my mind is the amount of idiots who think spamming servers and trying to crash more will do anything to help. Just goes to show unfortunately that most of his fans cannot handle the situation correctly. I would also blame his guildmates(?) who decided "Hey let's go crash more servers lol nothing will happen!" since they are just as much to blame. Oh and I like Athene's video as well...
quite entertaining.
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204878
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Post by
Haxzor
Athene responds.
And I need to make a Youtube clip on this sometime too.
that's pretty funny
Post by
Sneetch
What's worse, banning Swifty or banning 500+ players?
This reminds me of my Runescape days when Zezima was followed around by half the server every time he got on. Too bad nobody needed banned since the world cap was always 2000.
Post by
Interest
Wow...
What's worse, banning Swifty or banning 500+ players?
This reminds me of my Runescape days when Zezima was followed around by half the server every time he got on. Too bad nobody needed banned since the world cap was always 2000.
Well Blizzard has a server cap too. But apparently, that still doesn't prevent deliberate crashing.
Post by
Sweetscot
The Athene video leaves me with one question really weighing on my mind...
How freaking many shortcuts do you really need on your desktop? Dayum!
Post by
Lombax
I @#$%in hate Athene...
Such a !@#$%^, couldn't they just ban him instead of Swifty?
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