WoW/MMO Glider Update2009-08-13 00:00:00Everyone,We’d like to take a moment to provide a major update on the WoW/MMOGlider case. We know this is a topic that many of you have followed,whether because of being directly affected by Glider users in game orsimply because it’s been a controversial World of Warcraft-relatedissue over the past few years. On January 28, 2009, a U.S. districtcourt judge ruled in Blizzard’s favor on several issues in the civilcase between Blizzard and MDY Industries, LLC.For those who aren’t familiar with the background of this case orthe long process that led to this decision, MDY is the creator ofGlider, a ¡°bot¡± designed to play World of Warcraft automatically withlittle to no player input. We consider such automated play to becheating because it goes against the spirit of the game and providesunfair advantages over other players, and we have expressly forbiddenthe use of bots in the World of Warcraft Terms of Use (ToU) because ofthis. We take violations of this policy very seriously and haveconsistently worked to identify the use of bots in game and suspend orclose the associated accounts.When World of Warcraft first launched in 2004, our GM and hacksteams searched f...