Swifty got banned: Official thread

[Conscious]

Haha me and a bunch of friends from our server went to Darkspear, hope you have fun resetting your servers all day blizz.

Most of our guild is going as well.

[arcin]

Honestly I would laugh if a server crashed.

And if you watched ANY of the live stream, you can hear Zybak egging people on, Swifty was just notting that the server was lagging, and something bad was going to happen, and then the server crashed, so he laughed....which 9/10 of the people that were doing it, probably laughed to.

What about the people who were trying to do something while the server crashed? Were they laughing? Did they think it was funny to have their service interrupted while they were trying to do whatever they were doing?

Swifty did not stop the stream/mute zybak or make any attempt at all to tell his viewers to not crash the server.

[Makronette]

I laughed at the screen shots of these "protests" bit sad that they do that really, making things harder on other players just because the person they are fanboying over got banned.

Not a fan of Swifty myself nor do I hate him, he's just another player to me that posts vids of PvP (Which I have no interest in) and gets sponsorship to do so, how ever when you are someone like him who is quite a big WoW celebrity and has a lot of fans can you really expect an event he and his guild host to go smoothly and well mannered? I could see something like this happening... normally does when you get certain players/guilds who are very well known hosting events and inviting fans to join in, you'd have to be pretty blind to not see it happening.

He may not have directly crashed the server but he did invite a lot of players to this event and not everyone is going to act mature etc etc.

I doubt Blizzard will loose many subs over this as well because to be honest if you're going to quit because one person who you do not know as a person or in real life got banned then that's pretty pathetic.

People need to chill out and stop being so over dramatic about this, other players have probably been perma banned for much lighter offences and there is much you can do about it when you agree to a ToS that states quite clearly that Blizzard can ban who they want, when they want and no matter the reason, of course there is no proper freedom of speech... it is a game after all, one owned by a company that you pay for access to, you do not own part of the game by paying them.

[Pendulous]

H. disrupt or assist in the disruption of (i) any computer used to support the Service (each a “Server”); or (ii) any other player's Game experience. ANY ATTEMPT BY YOU TO DISRUPT THE SERVICE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE GAME CLIENT MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS.

BLIZZARD MAY SUSPEND, TERMINATE, MODIFY, OR DELETE ANY BNET ACCOUNT OR WORLD OF WARCRAFT ACCOUNT AT ANY TIME FOR ANY REASON OR FOR NO REASON, WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE TO YOU. For purposes of explanation and not limitation, most account suspensions, terminations and/or deletions are the result of violations of this Terms of Use or the EULA.

No real point in mentioning the "no real reason", because if they did that frequently, they wouldn't have 11 million + subs. But the rest of your quote sums it up easily, disrupting an entire server is a crime, not just a rule-breaking, but a crime.

[Conscious]

Here are the facts from a livestream viewer:

On the livestream, swifty was super excited and encouraging people to crash the servers with Zybak. He simply edited the youtube video about his account being banned. If you see, the part where he said "We dont want to crash the servers" he was wearing a different color T-Shirt, despite the fact that he was wearing the same shirt throughout the whole livestream event.

It was a fake "livestream" video posted on youtube to get the very same reaction that we are seeing now.

Also, He crashed three servers. Crashed one, they moved servers. Crashed another, moved servers. Crashed another, moved servers. GM Banned him when they logged on the 4th.

I'm not a hater. But he deserved it. They can't unban him simply because he is popular, or what message does that send to other youtube heroes?

Citation needed.

Provide me the original stream, and then we'll talk.

[Deleted]

They cannot unban him
If they do unbann him they can
exspect alot of demands from people who have
been banned and now want to get unbanned too

AND he wasnt innocent btw

i never know who this swifty guy is untill this night but think realistic if they dont unbann him they make alot more angry players when servers wont work so yes, they will unbamm him and i bet it going to happen soon

[Iyarashii]

You're not allowed to laugh while be surprised? Is he supposed to go "oh Jesus god no! /cry"

This, why should you judge someone based on how they react. Like i sometimes laugh to ease up the mood of a room.

[inboundpaper]

Now that's a swift kick in the nuts.

[Shamslam]

Not his fault his event crashed the server. How was he to know? People have been doing these giant events since WoW came out. Someone who has put that much time into the game and loves it that much isn't going to be some trolltard and go "lol let's crash the server, Blizz won't care."

And really, the popularity of one guy can bring enough people to crash an entire server? The hell was the limit on Darkspear?

[Tastyfish]

Swifty's "exploits" were never game breaking....he figured out how to make your hands glow cool colors.....and the skull of gul'dan thing was jus clever use of mechanics.

OH, and Hitler was just making more room for his kind of people threw tactical uses of showers and pits. Come on, stop spinning negitive bullshit to make it seem,ok, you aren't his spindoctor.

[Deleted]

No one will probably read this as this thread is beeing spammed. Probably will get flamed for saying this, but as a fan of Swifty he could see this coming.

Swifty got banned, perma-banned from the game. Which is, in my own opinion, not even a greater punishment then Ensidia abusing Saronite Bombs in LK HC 25. They got a 72 hour ban, Swifty should get atleast the same. Swifty DID got an infraction before, where he used the haste-axe from Shadow Labs to own the last boss in Arcatraz within seconds.

I got suspended several times, if I do it a few times more I lost my account. It's that simple. People, how famous they are ( Amy Whinehouse, Simpson ) cannot stand above the law. If that was the case every celebrety could murder and go free.

[cyberhrc]

if blizzard claim that 1 player is responsible for their server crash than they just admitted what bunch of lousy ppl and staff they actually are
and we pay them ...
dont care for swifty or athene, for me they are guys who play the game and enjoy making videos about their hobby, but this is really retarded game admin decision and without any respect for customers
its not our fault they are not prepared for some situations.. we pay em to fix that

[Pendulous]

Most of our guild is going as well.

Congratulations. You just admitted that you and an entire guild is changing servers with the sole intent to assist in disrupting that server, thus possibly resulting in more bans (yours). How does that make you feel?

[Aloodanis]

This is madness.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/42/wowscrnshot071811165825.jpg/

[Iyarashii]

Now that's a swift kick in the nuts.

lol ICWHATUDIDTHERE :P

[tilgare]

Good! You should have seen Stormwind with all his little drooling fan boys crawling all over the place spamming the hell out of /1, /2, /s, and /y. I'm not even remotely surprised that he got nailed for it, he practically begged for people to act the way they did. I just sat in the city reporting spam for a solid 30 minutes before I could actually read any real conversation or trade in general channels.

[ruke]

ANY ATTEMPT BY YOU TO DISRUPT THE SERVICE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE GAME CLIENT MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS.

I would think that he didn't attempt to bring the servers down (attempt implies intention which I doubt was there). But the "for no reason" paragraph makes blizzard invulnerable in any decision they make.

[Iyarashii]

This is madness.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/42/wowscrnshot071811165825.jpg/

No THIS IS DARKSPEAR!

[CrunkJuice5]

i never know who this swifty guy is untill this night but think realistic if they dont unbann him they make alot more angry players when servers wont work so yes, they will unbamm him and i bet it going to happen soon

but the wow community will still find things to be angry about anyway,if he deserves to get banned.then ban him,if what he did doesnt deserve him to get banned then dont ban him

ive known for a long time now because of things like 1 year of endless ICC and a summer of a content patch with barely any content in it besides lol7bosses that these are some of the reasons why the community is so bitter all the time

[Conscious]

Congratulations. You just admitted that you and an entire guild is changing servers with the sole intent to assist in disrupting that server, thus possibly resulting in more bans (yours). How does that make you feel?

I can assure you, my care face is on.