Warcraft Suspension
In what is being coined as "The Jaina Proudmoore Incident", nearly 100 Horde players have been temporarily suspended for 72 hours for exploiting. Apparently, Blizzard saw the same group of people repeatedly killing the game character Jaina Proudmoore for money, and saw fit to dish out some discipline. Harsh? Maybe.
The way I see it, repeatedly killing something isn't my idea of a fun time. I don't repeatedly kill monsters, unless a quest orders it, and I don't repeatedly kill Horde players, unless they simply don't know when to quit throwing their lives into the claws of an angry Druid.
But this is akin to repeatedly killing Thrall, or repeatedly killing the Archdruid, or repeatedly killing the King of Stormwind. Jaina is a high-level quest giver. People actually need her to finish tasks. An instance of "griefing" would be repeatedly killing a quest-giver for whatever reason. Granted, the suspension is reportedly because of "exploitation" instead of "griefing", the end result is still the same. Players were repeatedly killing a high-level quest-giver. Killing her once wouldn't have been much of a problem... Killing her twice? Not so much, either. But they were obviously killing her enough times to warrant an investigation by Blizzard. Someone reported the activity or Blizzard themselves noticed the events.
Needless to say, the suspended players are in an uproar about how unfair Blizzard is since they are being temporarily barred from playing a game that they pay for. Boo hoo. Are you saying that none of the 100 Horde players involved ever even momentarily thought that what they're doing might be a little excessive?
Well, I guess you have 3 days to reflect on what you did, eh? 3 days. Wow. Blizzard is a demon for robbing you of your game time for 3 whole days because you were breaking rules. Oh my. 3 whole days! What ARE you going to do during this time? Oh, probably whine about it the entire time, am I right? Then, once the suspension is up, you're going to go right back to playing. You might even quit in an effort to show Blizzard the error of their ways! Well, good riddence. Blizzard now has only 6,999,999 active players. Nobody will miss you. So I suggest that you stop making such a huge deal about this and just patiently serve your time in the brig. Who knows? You might even walk outside in those 3 days!