Are these people pikies? I mean this is straight out of Snatch. Gifted iconoclast in trouble with the law, err blizzard - check. Pissed patriarchal mother - check. Silent shirtless muscle to make sure no one gets any ideas - check.

Its just too perfect really, it's amazing to think its genuine. Seeing the poor bastard squirm as he is resigned to having to actually post this online.

"this is epic fail"

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So what were his dubious methods?

this is fucking retarded...

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So what were his dubious methods?


More than likely he is botting. Blizzard frowns heavily on botting and will ban any account caught doing so with no questions asked.

Sorry.. but how is this not hilarious?? Possibly fake, the fact that the one guy who got banned is trying not to laugh gives it away, but the lady threatening to kick his ass and all of 'the blizzartches' ass as well...

Sorry, they should give the guy back his account for this.

This looks like it might be an elaborate joke/intended viral.

Ok, here is the Bio of the shirtless man:
FURIOUS

Usually not wearing a shirt, Furious stays true to his roots; the ghetto's of Harlem. Being the only black man in the show he is prone to be subject of racism, which leaves him little choice but to carry a piece.

Other than packing a .45 he is a peace-loving man who makes an honest living by selling ponies and standing up for his people. Despite this fact of life he has been falsely accused several times of slander, fraud, thefth, battery, carjacking, homejacking, illegal possession of firearms, pimping, assault, manslaughter, bribery, obstruction, perjury, burglary, provocation, arson and robbery.

The latest accusations also involve unfair competition in games such as Call of Duty 4 and CS:S, where he allegedly owned other players to the point of virtual rape and humiliation.

ok on the dubious methods.
basically as they say in the video he was tagging which is allowed.. is where one guy hits as many mobs (bad guys for those that have lives ) as he can and then a group of players working with the main player but not actually grouped with them in game kill the mobs after they have been hit. The kill is credited to the player that first hit the mob and they get full experience.
the twist with this is that they did it in an instanced dungeon. all dungeons require you to be in a group. if you leave the group then the dungeon will kick you out. Except there is a 60 second window if you leave the group befor you are ported out. So what athene was doing was tagging the mobs in the instance letting his friends kill them and as long as he rejoins the group within 60 seconds to reset clock he was getting credit for effectively clearing the whole instance solo. If he had of just been tagging out in the regular gameworld then blizzard wouldnt have cared

It was a deliberate exploit of game mechanics.

When you are in an instanced dungeon, you have to be in a group or you will be teleported out of it. If you for some reason are kicked out of the group, leave or are disconnected and disconnect again, you have a 60 second window to get back in the group before you are teleported out.

When anyone attack a mob (an enemy non player character) it gets "tagged" by that player or his group, so that if that mob is slain, the tagger gets the experience points that mob would give.

They combined the two and thus exploited the the game mechanics. A player with great area of effect damage would leave the group, run in a tag a bunch of mobs, and then the rest of the guys (not in the same group) would within 60 seconds kill the mobs, and invite him back in the group again.

What ended up happening, was that the character they leveled up to level 79 was rolled back to level 70 and the guys in the group was given 3 day bans.

I think it was warranted.