Iranian sanctions getting serious.

[techs]

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19399375

Blizzard cuts off Iranian access to World of Warcraft

US trade sanctions have led game maker Blizzard to cut off access to World of Warcraft (Wow) in Iran.

Blizzard posted a statement to its player-forum site after hundreds of Iranian players said they had lost access to the game.

Access was lost recently, it said, because it had "tightened up its procedures" to comply with sanctions.

This also meant, said Blizzard, that it could not give refunds to players or transfer their accounts.

 

[sdifox]

iranian economy took a nosedive.

 

[SandEagle]

reposting gets serious.

 

[dr150]

This news will change the global balance of power.

Sad day indeed.

 

[Train]

iranian economy took a nosedive.

shouldn't their economy jump UP, now that they are no longer playing WOW?

 

[Arkaign]

shouldn't their economy jump UP, now that they are no longer playing WOW?

Hahaha.

Now that you bring it up, if the US and Israeli gov'ts snuck a program in through blizzard that gave WoW and gaming PCs away for free to the Iranian's, it would probably grind their entire economy to a halt in 6 months or less. That game is a massive time sink, I've seen friends disappear completely in it!

 

[Gooberlx2]

Time for Iranian players to figure out how to use proxies.

 

[Red Storm]

We won't let them get nukes!




... in Starcraft.

 

[sdifox]

shouldn't their economy jump UP, now that they are no longer playing WOW?

gold farming :whiste:

 

[airdata]

LOL

Not the warcraft!!! But yeah, Gold farming from Iran poses more of a threat than their non existent nuclear weapons program.

 

[lothar]

http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1182446-Iran-s-government-banned-battle-net-s-IPs

 

[DrunkenSano]

Time for another riot in Iran.

 

[woodie1]

This news will change the global balance of power.

Sad day indeed.

My thoughts exactly!

 

[Sonikku]

ugh we need to just nuke em and be done with it. That way we don't have to deal with them anymore and they get their very own nuke like they always wanted. It's win-win.