Blizzard Entertainment vs. Glider

BBC News reports that Blizzard Entertainment is locked in a legal battle over the use of Michael Donnelly’s Glider “botting” tool in World of Warcraft.

Blizzard is suing Michael Donnelly, the creator of the MMO Glider program, which performs key tasks in the game automatically, such as fighting.

Both sides have submitted legal summaries to a court in Arizona.

Blizzard says Glide is a software bot which infringes the company’s copyright and potentially damages the game.

In its legal submission to the court last week, the firm said: “Blizzard’s designs expectations are frustrated, and resources are allocated unevenly, when bots are introduced into the WoW universe, because bots spend far more time in-game than an ordinary player would and consume resources the entire time.”

I can see both sides on this one. May the most financially supported party win!

Thanks, Blue’s News.