Linux player booted from WoW

A WOW player has been booted from the online game World of Warcraft for using the Wine emulator over the Linux operating system and a macro programmable keyboard. The bloke, who is a network network engineer for an ISP, reports his experiences with the Blizzard administrators here. He thinks that the use of Wine might affect the software Blizzard use to detect third party programs designed to cheat the game.

I’ve always wondered what would happen to players who used Wine for their MMO. Apparently this is. He didn’t cheat though… he used a macro keyboard. Most MMO’s allow quick macros in game, but when it’s hardware it’s a crime? Check it out at The Inquirer.