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Author:  pcernie [ Wed Oct 23, 2013 12:35 pm ]
Post subject:  Warcraft bot company ordered to pay Blizzard $7 million
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/43 ... 7-million/

I'm guessing they'll never actually see much of that money.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Thu Oct 24, 2013 10:40 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Warcraft bot company ordered to pay Blizzard $7 million
Quote:
The World of Warcraft terms of service agreement has always warned against both creating and using such bots. Users are warned not to "create or use cheats, 'mods', and/or hacks, or any other third-party software designed to modify the World of Warcraft experience."

A World of Warcraft film adaptation is currently in production.

The MMO's popularity has been in decline of late, with analysts pointing to a 57 per cent drop in revenues over seven months for the subscription-based title.

I think other factors are at play when it comes to subscribers such as the general economy and alternatives.

Will a film and $7 million compensation make up for the drop in revenues? I think not.
Author:  l3v1ck [ Thu Oct 24, 2013 9:31 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Warcraft bot company ordered to pay Blizzard $7 million
They'll probably bring out a WOW2 once the new consoles come out. Even build in PC graphics on recent laptops with allow much more detail/effects than the original game could have.
Author:  jonbwfc [ Thu Oct 24, 2013 9:45 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Warcraft bot company ordered to pay Blizzard $7 million
l3v1ck wrote:
They'll probably bring out a WOW2 once the new consoles come out.

WoW has never been on consoles. I'd be somewhat surprised if it showed up on the new ones any time soon. They only got Diablo 3 onto the new consoles by abandoning their proprietary networked back end. They're not going to want to do that with WoW.
Author:  big_D [ Fri Oct 25, 2013 3:34 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Warcraft bot company ordered to pay Blizzard $7 million
It is a MmORPG, so a large part of it is interacting with other players in character, or at least it was on the German servers, like Anarchy Online as well, so you spend a lot of time typing in conversations, not something that your can easily do on a console.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Fri Oct 25, 2013 4:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Warcraft bot company ordered to pay Blizzard $7 million
big_D wrote:
It is a MmORPG, so a large part of it is interacting with other players in character, or at least it was on the German servers, like Anarchy Online as well, so you spend a lot of time typing in conversations, not something that your can easily do on a console.

It would be interesting to know what is happening with other MmORPGs. What are the subscriber numbers for them? Are they falling? i suspect that a number of people are getting bored and stopping gaming and others are switching to other games.
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