World of Warcarft – Everyone can play as long as you are not GAY

Posted on February 4, 2009 - by John

World of Warcarft – Everyone can play as long as you are not GAY

World of Warcraft

I love to play World of Warcraft* (World of Warcraft, often referred to as WoW, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG).

So when a friend of mine asked me to create a discussion forum for his guild – a guild is a group of people who come together in a group to play the game. This guild is a gay friendly guild.I was more than happy to oblige with setting up this forum for them.

It seems however that everyone can play warcraft, except ‘the GAYS’. Having advertised the gay friendly guild in the game, the guild leader got the following e-mail from Blizzard Entertainment.

Greetings,

We are writing to inform you that we have, unfortunately, had to add a warning to your World of Warcraft account. It is with regret that we take this type of action; however, it is in the best interests of the World of Warcraft community as a whole and for the integrity of the game.

Please note that should any further violations of our Rules and Policies occur, this incident will be taken into consideration when determining the consequences to your account. This could include further warnings, account suspension or account termination.

We strongly suggest you review our current Rules and Policies to avoid further action in the future, these can be found at:

http://www.wow-europe.com/en/policy/

Please do not reply to this email as you will receive an automated response. If you have any further enquiries regarding your account status, please send them to:

And in response to the guild leaders question for more information, he got this reply from Blizzard, who owns the game.

Hello ,

Firstly; allow me to apologise for the length of time it has taken to reply to your initial mail. It has unfortunately not been possible for us to respond as swiftly as we would like to at present. Please accept my apologies for the delay in getting back to you on this matter.
In regards to your issue; I have looked over the investigation of the harassment incident that you were reportedly involved in, in order to verify whether or not the penalty was correct.
Having reviewed the records again, it does in fact appear that the penalty was indeed correctly placed. Due to this we will be unable to overturn the decision.
Please be assured that any investigations are objective and action is taken against all parties involved that violated our policies. Due to our ability to see exactly what transpired, we do not believe that there is a need to open dialogue for these policy violations.
Action against policy violations is taken regardless of who was the instigator of the incident.
With regret; we are unable to supply records of the incident, nor to go into our internal handling of warnings on accounts.
Please make certain that you review our harassment policies to avoid further warnings/suspensions:

http://www.wow-europe.com/en/policy/harassmentp1.html

Please also be aware that the profanity filter does not excuse or justify violation of our harassment policy. The filter is not perfect and blocks normal words for some languages that are offensive in others, we do of course verify the context and language history of your account before making such a decision to make certain this was not a case of any words being used innocently.
If you have any further queries or have any additional issues that have arisen in the time it has taken us to respond, please send us a mail and we will be more than happy to address them for you.

What get’s up my nose is that Blizzard are basically saying we may ban you but we will not say why, it’s is not the first time this has happened though