put it this way. the "alot of us" with "no problems at all" could easily translate to "a matter of time."

although the posts were dramatic, it's no less serious. and put it this way, if dennis hadn't made such an issue about it, i don't think slickz would have gotten such an answer from blizzard.

My message was suppose to imply that just because Blizz is silent publicly doesn't mean that they aren't taking steps. Hence "a matter of time" because it was in relation to the forum topic i.e. about WoW Account creation via Guest Passes which he upgraded with an online verification key after that.

At the same time, my post was also in reply to your post that dennis is making a hoo-haa over nothing. It's his money so it's his right to make the hoo-haa. Without making that hoo-haa, slickz wouldn't have gotten that response about Malaysians being in the approved list of account creation. Probably coz Malaysian accounts are quite a substantial number although I suspect that it's from WoW Taiwan / WoW China rather than WoW US / WoW EU versions but that's just me.

Looking at eyantie's post, he/she also had to continuously reply to Blizzard to get them to respond. It is hard to prove that one is legit but it's not impossible. Most times it probably because the explaination/reply given to Blizzard is not convincing enough.

As for whether we were suppose to play in the first place, it would depend on when u mean by first place and what were the ToS before the most recent one. Besides, it would defeat the purpose of naming an online game as MMORPG. It's not massive if it wasn't international.

At the end of the day, it's more about finding out what we know as Blizzard policies. This is a voluntary community forum and we do help one another out. If we said the wrong advice to a new player, he/she will be unnecessarily frustrated, no? And giving them the answer that "oh, you chose to play it and you can choose to leave it too" doesn't ease the players frustration at all.

As for slickz's link to the CNET response, notice that there is only one very teen weeny response from Blizzard? The rest are all from WoW players, not Blizzard themselves. I'm waiting to see if there's going to be a lawsuit coming out soon in the USA.