ghost

Bravo Blizzard. You are milking the puss out of the cash cow that World of Warcraft is, gearing up for the critical mass of PC gaming with Diablo III, and the Starcraft II trilogy and you decide to walk out of your elegant manor, stroll into Warcraft village and kick the entire community in the teeth, then walk away with their bread and butter. “You were wholly aware of the decrees of Blizzards domain when you decided to reside here”, said Mayor Pawn. All I know, Mayor Pawn, is that you don’t punish a good and decent community just because you heard the witch was in town. You don’t set your house on fire on kill a bandit, you don’t fire a cannon to break up a kids quarrel and don’t ban the most innovative, dedicated and loyal players of your games! We all know the Warden is now in town. Here to purge the scourge, but let me be clear, good and decent has nothing to do with the community contract or the battle.net user agreement. Use the guise of eliminating hacks and cheats all you want. This is a classic case of inconveniencing the many for the wrongdoing of the few, or just plain uncalled for crack down with the iron first of intolerance.

Who is the new battle.net Warden? Warden (also known as Warden Client) is an anti-cheating tool integrated in Blizzard Entertainment games such as Diablo II (since patch 1.11), StarCraft (since patch 1.15), Warcraft III (since 2009-04-14) and most notably World of Warcraft. While the game is running, Warden uses API function calls to collect data on open programs on the user's computer and sends it back to Blizzard servers as hash values to be compared to those of known cheating programs.[1] Privacy advocates consider the program to be spyware. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warden_(software)).