April 23rd 2010 12:14 am
SO SUSAN, DID YOU REALLY DO THIS?
This is a post that started with a draft that after reviewing made me realize I could get sued so I had to quickly rewrite this so the tone would be more of questioning than plain declaring that yeah, they did it and they should all die a fiery death.
"They" being Susan Express, Azeroth’s biggest in-game spammer and numero uno Trade chat whore. (Now that is something I would proudly call them everyday even at the risk of getting sued).
After Rachel lost her WoW account, several more people in my realm got hacked and it was the hot topic on Trade chat. Four of those people learned that their accounts were used to create level 1 toons not only to act as mule toons for delivery purposes but also…
…to advertise Susan Express on Trade chat.
I was really floored when I learned that because to me, that was the ultimate insult — more painful than getting salt rubbed into a fresh wound. Your characters get robbed, disrobed, yes even deleted…and your account becomes a hive of level 1’s promoting x percent discount to convince people to buy WoW gold at Susan Express. Talk about dying a thousand deaths (or by a thousand spam).
The Susan team might say, "That wasn’t us, that was probably a competitor trying to make us look bad."
I’d say, "Look, bitch, you’re already making yourself look bad by constantly spamming on Trade chat, you don’t need a competitor to make you look more of a dubious whore than you already are."
But hey, Susie, feel free to contact me and tell me you didn’t do it.
People are talking about you.
Not just on my realm but in several others.
Time for you to refute that perhaps?
Oh no, no, not on Trade chat. Lord knows how awful you’d look if you did that. Imagine Susie going "For the thankness of our customers, we want to say we do not use stolen WoW accounts for our spam. We only borrow them for a short time while you are busy contacting Blizzard to get your account back. Here is coupon code XYZ and extra gold so you will not believe EGF."
Hahaha.
That was a joke. Don’t sue me please.
But do feel free to contact me and tell me your side of the story.
I’m waiting, Susie.
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Deinera on 03 May 2010 at 4:07 pm #
It’s kind of funny… I had never actually heard of this website, mostly because I’m never in trade chat. Ever. Until I decided to make an Alliance toon on an overly populated Horde server, and since there are only about 10 of us online at any given time (9 if you take my boyfriend outta the mix) I figure trade chat was safe. The first and only time I went to the website caused all sorts of problems on my computer. Starting that day something was causing my computer to change DNS servers, rendering my internet access unusable. It took me forever of looking around and looking around to find out what was happening, then came the process of cleaning up my computer to stop this from happening again.
It was the ONLY questionable site I had gone to in well over a month. It started the day I went to their site and has not happened again (since I will never go there again). I guess I should be glad I had already gone the route of the authenticator, or I might have found myself in your friend’s situation.
Dontworry on 13 May 2010 at 2:51 pm #
Don’t worry about being sued. If these people took you to court you could bring up the issue of selling gold (which is illegal due to the terms of use) in which case blizzard could sue them for gookoos of bucks. So call em what you want, dont worry about being sued!
Mike on 23 Aug 2010 at 1:38 am #
“you could bring up the issue of selling gold (which is illegal due to the terms of use) in which case blizzard could sue them for gookoos of bucks. So call em what you want, dont worry about being sued!”
I know this is an old comment, but I should point out that something being against the terms of service is not the same thing as being illegal. It is not illegal for you to allow someone else to use your account, it is against the terms of service which can result in a banning but certainly not incarceration of course.
As to the second part, Blizzard would sue but the precedence is against them in this case so the only thing they would hope to do is make the legal proceedings as expensive for the sellers as possible by dragging out a civil case.