Creative use of mechanic, or exploit

[wererabbit]

My point basically is, everyone who was doing it, knew it wasn't legitimte. They knew it was going to be hotfixed, just a matter of time. The fact that they chose to hotfix over ban is just their views now, not in the future. Finding interesting tactics to get an upperhand in the game (protip: thats the defintion of exploit), is not a recommended hobby when wanting to keep your account. People who try to "convince" us that it was legitimate, or that they never thought it was going to be fixed, are either living in a fantasy world, or are trying to convince themselves

Ok, I've read all the way through here, and I realize this is merely my second post, but I feel I need to respond to your hyperbole.

I'm not trying to flame you but this is silly. You're not completely wrong. But mainly, you're just sitting and arguing a set of semantics so you appear better than other people.

Truthfully, it doesn't matter what you think about whether people should be banned or not, it's just your opinion, and your opinion doesn't really count in the grand scheme of things. Blizzard makes the rules, they made the game, they goofed up a boss fight, people saw it was goofed up, some smart people used the goof to their advantage. Big whoop. Blizzard ignored the public forum request for a response (if you would bother to read older posts you would see that) and then moved it to a bug report forum. Classifying it as a bug (not an exploit), they then terminated the goof up by toasting the xp gain. Whoopdeedoo. Nobody was banned, nobody lost credit with Blizzard, Blizzard had obviously screwed up.

Stop trying to lord it over people that somehow you are superior because you choose to spend hours of your life grinding a specific way that is different than their way. Yes, yours is the nice, hard-working time-consuming way. Nobody is arguing with that. Some people prefer to drive 80mph in the 55mph zone. They get tickets. Some people prefer to drive 55mph in the 55mph zone. They don't get tickets. Some people prefer to drive 80mph when the sign says 80mph, and everyone knows it should really be 55mph. So the city ordinance gets passed and the sign gets changed. Doesn't really change anything except the speed limit. You can't give tickets to drivers for doing the stated speed limit in an inconsistently delineated zone.