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    Default Blizzard wins $7 million in bot company lawsuit

    http://www.gamespot.com/articles/bli.../1100-6415695/

    Blizzard Entertainment has won a lawsuit against a World of Warcraft bot company for $7 million.

    According to a report on GamesIndustry, the suit was originally filed by Blizzard Entertainment against Ceiling Fan Software in December 2011. Ceiling Fan Software was allegedly behind a number of World of Warcraft bots, including Shadow Bot and Pocket Gnome.

    A California Court has ordered Ceiling Fan Software to cease operations and pay Blizzard Entertainment $7 million in damages. A statement posted on the Ceiling Fan Software website cites "two years of legal battles" by the organisation to "both pursue our right to operate and our customer's right to play WoW as they choose".

    Ceiling Fan Software is accepting donations to assist with "outstanding legal fees".

    Parent company Activision Blizzard revealed a drop in World of Warcraft subscribers earlier this year. Despite dipping to 7.7 million active players, the publisher revealed that the game remains the most popular subscription-based MMO in the world.

    Subscribers for World of Warcraft peaked at over 12 million in October 2010. The original World of Warcraft game was released in 2004, and was followed by four expansion packs: Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm, and Mists of Pandaria.

    A film adaptation of the Warcraft universe is scheduled to begin filming in 2014.


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    It's funny how the "news" slowly shifts into advertisement.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rya.Reisender View Post
    It's funny how the "news" slowly shifts into advertisement.
    Yurp

    Also I was expecting this to involve a got botting company haha. Not sure how I feel about this I guess now that I know it isn't, since I don't know these ceiling fan guys.

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    I hope Blizzard use that 7 million properly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Imperidal View Post
    I hope Blizzard use that 7 million properly.
    sure they will, im sure not ewery1 in there hawe 10 ferrari yet ^^

    honestly ... its players that suffered from bots, not the publishers since they actualy got $ for these accounts anyway ...

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    They earn $100M every month from those 7.7M subscriber. I don't think that a once-in-a-lifetime $7M makes much of a difference.

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    I don't play WoW anymore.. Blizzard games are getting worse. Diablo 2 was epic but Diablo 3 is just a dumb down version for console.. But I am glad they won because these Thirdparty program/company are what ruins games... and I hope this continues so we see less of cheaters/exploiters in some way

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    Quote Originally Posted by Imperidal View Post
    I hope Blizzard use that 7 million properly.
    Thats their way of paying for that new Blizz moba trailer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Imperidal View Post
    I hope Blizzard use that 7 million properly.
    It's not like they need the cash, it just puts botters out of business.

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    Maybe the totalled all the subscription money that they COULD have made from the hundreds of thousands of botter accounts that Blizzard permabanned for using said bots?

    I'm gonna ban a couple hundred thousand accounts and then blame some software developer for it AND sue him $7 million, because it's HIS fault. Then again... A lot of botting software steals from the in-game GUI and artwork and even code. I believe real money trading sites were originally sued for copyright-infringement over in-game artwork on the websites?

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