It seems as though Michael Donnelly’s WoW bot (Glider) has ruffled some serious feathers in the City of Love. Basically, it shakes out like this; Donnelly’s bot ‘grinds, loots, heals, and even farms soul shards without you’ for a small license fee of $25. In other words, this bot will make you boatloads of money, mats, rep, etc. and pretty much anything else you want, all while you’re off at school, the gym, or sleeping.

It’s a well known fact that MMO producing companies have a high disdain for anyone caught cheating the game. Be this gold farming, buying accounts, or using bots to perform automated functions. On the other hand, there will always be those out there that are willing to push the edges of the envelope, and see just how far they can go with Blizzard or any other manufacturer.

Where the legalese comes in is that Blizzard is claiming that Blizzard’s designs expectations are frustrated, and resources are allocated unevenly, when bots are introduced into the WoW universe, because bots spend far more time in-game than an ordinary player would and consume resources the entire time. Hmm: clearly they’re unaware of how much time I spend playing the game.
Blizzard is also claiming that Glider infringes on copyrights and is a violation of the EULA “because it copies the game into RAM in order to avoid detection by anti-cheat software”.

Donnelly contends that there is no copyright violation present as “no ‘copy’ of the Warcraft game client software is ever made.”

As it stands right now, Donnelly and Blizzard (along with parent company Vivendi Games) are lawyering up, and it looks to be an interesting showdown in the Ring of Blood. Now this is some serious PvP action! And please dear god: let the judge use the phrase PWND, just once: please?