In a bid to clamp down on users who used to use illegal third party software, Blizzard’s anti-cheating software (Warden) incorrectly flagged a “very small percentage” of World of Warcraft players running the game on Cedega under Linux. Thus these players were banned from playing the game. It took Blizzard one week to realize that they had made a huge mistake and now they are making up for it by offering the affected players 20 days of free play.
This is what Blizzard had to say about it:
- “Our staff worked directly in conjunction with the Cedega development team in a rigorous and thorough review of the situation. We have since determined that your account was one of those accidentally flagged, and as such we are immediately reinstating your account to fully playable status.
Blizzard Entertainment deeply regrets the error, as we understand that this brief account closure presented you with an inconvenient and highly frustrating experience. We remain firmly committed to enforcing our regulations and suspensions for those exploiting our game, in the interest of ensuring that our legitimate customers have the best possible play experience. In this case, however, we regretfully caught a handful of innocent customers in the process, and for that we offer you our genuine apology.
In consideration of our error, we are applying a credit of two weeks play time onto your account, in addition to crediting back the time that your account was locked. This comes to a total of twenty (20) days credit, which should be visible on your account within the end of the week.”
Well, now I am just trying to find my time machine to go back 10 days and again start playing the game using Cedega, the unsupported Windows emulator for Linux!