On their site, Blizzard announced that they've "permanently closed" 18,000 accounts that were caught cheating, abusing game mechanics, botting for gold and generally breaking Blizzard's laws. By the numbers, that's a hundred or so people removed from each server — which isn't too bad. Too bad last night in Azshara I ran across the same gold farmer I've been seeing for months.

WoW Accounts Closed [World of Warcraft Homepage]

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