World of Warcraft: "Deflection Plan"
Posted: Thursday July 27th, 2006
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Tuesday, July 25th, Blizzard announced that, in a continued effort to "elimanate cheating" in World of Warcraft they had banned 59 thousand accounts during the month of June and removed 22 million gold from the game's global economy.
Source: World of Warcraft: Official Forums [ more info ]
I'll admit, I'm just being mean for no good reason here. Blizzard has continually made efforts to minimize cheating in WoW. And hell when you have 80 million accounts* you can afford to ban more accounts in a single month than some other MMOs have... PERIOD.
(* intentional gross over-estimation)
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