Man kan sige meget om Blizzard, men firmaet er i hvert fald ikke bange for at straffe brugere der snyder sig til unfair fordele i deres mange spil. Adskillige konti er gennem tiden blevet lukket af firmaet i forbindelse med strategi-spillene Warcraft og nu kommer turen så til det netop lancerede MMORPG World of Warcraft.
Siden spillet blev lanceret er flere blevet opdaget i at bruge hacks online, der ødelægger glæden ved at spille spillet - især for andre. Derfor skrider Blizzard nu ind og giver online-eventyrer en sidste advarsel. De har nemlig opdaget at en lille håndfuld spillere misbruger systemet og ødelægger online-verdenen ved at tilrane sig magisk udstyr, ridedyr og et langt højere level.
Chris Sigaty sagde følgende:
"It's extremely important to the ideals we're going to try and uphold with our community support and live teams. When they're identified, if there are people that are ruining the experience by cussing and being racist, whatever it is, we'll get rid of them, but also people that are cheating or are going and doing things in the game that we didn't intend."
Til gengæld kender han også til problemer skabt af holdet I forbindelse med udviklingen af spillet og her er han naturligvis realistisk i forhold til hvordan disse huller bruges:
"Stuff will come up that we just don't anticipate or whatever, and we'll just say 'okay, we're going to end that, you're not to blame for doing it, because it was our thing'. So whatever it is - if they find some herb that fetches a ridiculous price of something, I dunno, something really crazy, then that's our fault, but we'll deal with it and we fully intend to do that across all regions; the idea is to have an environment that is fun for everybody, and certainly griefers and cheaters can ruin that.
World of Warcraft er på gaden i Europa engang i starten af år 2005.