Victory or Defeat? You decide.

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Yo Zarhym, my main man, WAAASSSSUPP!

OP in the thread, some 56 troll type person:

Seriously, everybody just afk queues in Dalaran all day long to get teleported to their instances or else join raids to get teleported too, so please let us uninstall everything in the game but that town once we reach level 80, and add an auction house in it.

And you also could give the option to never install the rest of the game at all and just install Dalaran and instances on our hard drive from the start! You can level from level 15 to 80 with random instances anyway!

That would be a great save of disk space! There is no World PvP and no World PVE to do anyway, just solo daily quests that are, I think we all agree, completely dull and boring.

Why did you create a World blizzard? We don’t need it! Please let us save disk space!

Thanks.

Zarhym’s response:

Is Monday when a bunch of aspiring Jonathan Swifts hit the World of Warcraft forums?

I wrote a rather harsly worded response to that, as it’s an issue I care a bit more about than the same old regular OMG U NERFZ ME WAAAAAAH crap that’s general issue for the official wow forums. I’ve now joined a long and rather illustrious row of people who have been banned from them for speaking their mind a little too much. Yep, a bunch of us are people who just plain deserved it. And maybe I did, too – you, Dear Reader, can make up your own mind about that. And a bunch of us are people who were just plain very outspoken advocates of a class or issue, and got caught up in being reported and banned for things that are pretty dam well selectively enforced.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum Example:

I’m gonna make a rule that no-one can step on the cracks on the pavement, and ban you from the pavement when I catch you doing so. I’ll then leave it to your fellow pedestrians to notify me when it happens.

Haha! I just caught you stepping on the crack in the pavement. BANHAMMER.

I’m also gonna make another rule that if you disagree with any decisions I make you can email neverreadjunkmail@rulesfeedback.com and tell you that your complaint will be handled with due diligence and your problem will be dealt with by the people who oversee me. Don’t worry if you don’t receive a response, that’s normal. If we decide an error was made in banning you we will let you know. It’s also illegal to discuss these issues while walking on the pavement where the ban took place and there is no oversight or transparency in the process after you no longer have a right to walk there. [Incidentally, this type of procedure is why we need congressional civilian oversight on everything I do and say as a real-life military person - and everything the various intelligence/police/security/government people do. Of course, Blizzard forums are run by a private corporation, so a parallel argument is not very useful or appropriate as it's perfectly fine and even beneficial for society-at-large for them to make whatever rules they want regarding a service they provide for their customers.]

1. Then again, it’s their forums and they can do what they want.
2. Or you can take the view that he was really doing me a favour since I waste way too much time on the game and the forums as is, and generally fight an uphill battle against the vast majority of players who are generally speaking more interested in quick easy phat epix and telling you that you suck because of your lack of achievements or arena rating.
3. Or you can take the view that my voice on the subject of the progressively more apparent lack of a WORLD in the WORLD of WARcraft has now been conclusively, absolutely sure beyond the shadow of a doubt – heard by the powers that be. And that’s really cool. I’m perfectly fine with giving up my posting privileges on the official forums just for knowing that YES FINALLY SOMEONE WITH SOME SORT OF CONNECTION TO A DEVELOPER DID ACTUALLY PAY ATTENTION to what I wrote regarding the continually worsening situation with regards to WORLD pvp, immersion, instant teleports, battlegroup-centric content in BGs, arenas etc versus building persistent server communities in an immersive, dangerous WORLD full of adventure and excitement.
4. Or you can take the view that I’m just a jerk who got what I deserved. I’m ok with that, too. Feel free to have whatever opinion you want to have. My voice was heard. I’m cool. Peace.
5. EDIT: Or the post was reported by whomever and actioned by another nameless faceless forum moderator, with no connection to – or input whatsoever on the powers that be. In which case this is all just a moot point. Oh well.

Either case, if you take the view that Blizzard is out to get you or that Zarhym’s an ***hole you’re just plain wrong. They want you as a paying customer and their employees generally speaking will act to further what they believe is in the best interest of the game, the company and the community as a whole.

EDIT: Dammit, I could’ve sworn the ban was permanent. Must. Resist. Urge. To get PERMABANNED. Ugh. Not like going with a massively persistent sandbox WORLD full of WORLD pvp and capturable zones and towns/cities and WG-style buffs and help for the outnumbered faction will ever be as popular as the phat easy quick lootzors that most people who just log in, queue up, teleport to instanced BG/arena/raid/dungeon, teleport back & log out really want. So really, having what I wrote make even a negative, small, minor impact is really about as good as you can ask for in this situation. There’s been hundreds of posts on the subject, ten times more reasonable than the troll that got the attention or the post that got me banned. Oh well. WORLD PVP WILL NEVER DIE. Not while I’m still playing. Might actually get a second account, turn down all the settings on it, face a wall inside a safe area on a lowbie Horde alt, then take my main and run rampant in Borean Tundra or something while taking screenshots of the Horde general chat and whispers on my Horde toon – kinda like a certain  http://dkeserver.se/stuff/angwe/ character.

Previous history reference:

http://coldbear.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/coldbear-vs-zarhym-on-blizzard-forums/

EDIT:

80% sure that it originally was a permanent ban. Was very surprised when I looked a little more carefully after getting the same “Account Banned” screen upon accessing the forums, and saw that it was temporary. Of course, I could be wrong.