world of warcraft

A consumer protection website SiteJabber which is funded by the National Science Foundation posted a chart of common scams on World of Warcraft servers. Today the game is played by 11.5 million people worldwide and it is one of the most favorite havens for scammers, hackers and fraudsters who try to lure unwitting and unwary victims into their schemes so that they would give away their credentials or money.

Blizzard was granted over $88 million in damages inflicted by private gaming server “Scapegaming”. The federal judge found that the gaming server violated the companies EULA along with aspects of the DMCA. Scapegaming allowed users running a modified version of the client to join their third party server, and the owner recorded over $3 million dollars in revenue by selling virtual items.

Blizzard has taken a decision to introduce some changes into the World of Warcraft forums and Battle.net in particular. The company now wants every user to post their comments under their real names in full.

Dungeons & Dragons Online has rolled a last-minute, tide-turning 20 by giving the boot to its subscription fee, and Lord of the Rings Online seems poised for a similar resurgence.

Dedicated World of Warcraft players may fall victims to a sophisticated attack orchestrated by cyber crooks. Hackers have developed a man-in-the-middle-attack designed to circumvent authentication kit used by the gamers.

Players are lured into installing Trojans disguised as gaming ad-ons. As soon as the installation is successful the malware provides hackers with an access to capturing and relaying authentication commands next time a victim logs on to Blizzard's servers.
 

An obsessive World of Warcraft player is suing the makers of the game for ruining his life, quoth a gleeful Grauniad this week.

 Blizzard's World of Warcraft could be headed for a good old fashioned plug-pulling in China because of the intensifying government dissension. A Chinese government has ordered NetEase, a Chinese internet company that hosts World of Warcraft in China, to disconnect the game after rejecting NetEase's application to operate Activision Blizzard's The Burning Crusade, the popular MMORPG's second expansion. But The Burning Crusade was already released in China two years ago, in 2007. World of Warcraft had really been operated by The9 in Shanghai - the MMORPG launched in China in June 2005.

 A class action lawsuit is seeking by the US shareholder against Chinese game operator, The9, over its financially devastating loss of a contract to host World of Warcraft in the country. The9 is accused in making numerous false and deceitful positive statements to shareholders about the company's status of licensing negotiations for WoW, while it was becoming clear its contract to host the online game would not be renewed.

Saturday, the China’s General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) and copyright watchdog issued a prohibition, banning foreign investment in domestic online gaming operations through joint ventures, wholly owned enterprises and cooperatives.

 That was done in an effort to enhance control over remunerative virtual worlds of national online games industry.

 The new prohibition also bans foreign companies to indirectly influence Chinese gaming firms through agreements or technology support.

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