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How many times have we heard from our less than co-operative girlfriends and wives that “No means no”! Yet, some people just don’t seem to get the idea. Even as Blizzard constantly keeps putting down rumors about their games expanding onto next-generation consoles mercilessly, they never seem to stay dead. After squelching console owners’ hopes of seeing StarCraft II on the Xbox 360 or the PS3, Blizzard descended without mercy on a hapless poster who had the nerve to ask about World of Warcraft on the PS3, responding with:
“We’re madly in love with the PC and Mac platforms, and there are no plans at this time to bring World of Warcraft to any other platforms.”
Sorry, folks, that means no WoW for you on the consoles for at least a couple of more years. And we wonder what happened to that other Blizzard console project called StarCraft: Ghost.
Remember the pornstars that played Strip Halo 3 a couple of weeks back? Well, if you checked Mia Rose out at her site, you’d see that she is a pretty hardcore World of Warcraft player as well, who’s even starred in a couple of episodes of Whore of Warcraft. Recently seen playing a Lvl. 70 Undead Warlock on the Mal’Ganis server, Mia Rose told Kotaku today that she has been issued a temporary ban by a GM after a fan recognized her and mentioned her website in a public chat channel. Talking to Kotaku, Mia said:
“After someone said I had a bad nose, this was randomly it happens a lot, I responded ‘Hey, learn hot to search, stop using Google, go to Myspace or something, I’ve had a noise job. The person then typed MIAROSESEXXX.com ZOMFG.”
About ten minutes later, she apparently received a message from a GM saying she was temp banned. Of course, Blizzard’s policy indicates that their GMs don’t really have to explain the reasons for the bans issued, but this is a case of outright discrimination on the GM’s part for banning someone from a server for no fault of theirs. While she mentioned that she liked playing on this server, she was considering changing her name and her server just to avoid all the unwanted attention she gets when she’s just trying to get her game on. Baring specifically for a game-related job is one thing, but getting mobbed even when just trying to have fun? Must be tough.
“Every time I log on, I get twenty or more messages at a time… it has come to the point of having to contact the GM every time I try to sell something because people are going off with either Mia Rose spam or hate messages.”
One would assume that people would be able to keep their real-world biases from rearing their stinky heads in an MMO, where people are supposed to work together, have fun and nurture healthy social relationships, but then, these are the same kinds of people that made us practically quit playing CS: Source in the first place. We hope that she gets her account back soon, along with an apology for mistreatment and she gets to play her favorite games in peace, like we all dream of doing someday before another greasy 12-year old griefer shows up to rip our last shred of sanity.
PS: You know what I find real funny? A comment on the news item page at Kotaku that reads “Porn really has no place in WoW..” Heh, heh, are you sure? This guy’s probably going to have thousands of people baying for his blood, especially the Night Elf lovers.
You know what I find even funnier, and wonder how I missed it before? The idiot that got her temp banned because he typed in her website’s address? He got it wrong. The irony!