{"id":86469,"date":"2026-07-24T14:27:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86469"},"modified":"2026-07-24T15:38:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:38:40","slug":"blizzard-employee-out-of-a-job-after-allegedly-helping-friends-cheat-in-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86469","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard Employee Out Of A Job After Allegedly Helping Friends Cheat In WoW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Blizzard employee who used developer tools to allegedly help a group of friends complete a challenging Mythic+ dungeon in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/world-of-warcraft\/\">World of Warcraft<\/a> is no longer with the company, Blizzard has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this week, a thread on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/wow\/comments\/1v2xfpr\/blizzard_gm_death_touching_mobs_in_m23_for_their\/\">Reddit<\/a> called attention to a suspicious Mythic+ 23 dungeon run. A simple look at the key in question on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warcraftlogs.com\/reports\/JcfwTd4L19Agx3NX?fight=4&amp;type=resources&amp;hostility=1&amp;source=100.4&amp;eventstart=4705300\">Warcraftlogs<\/a>, a site players use to track dungeon and raid performance, showed the dungeon shouldn&#8217;t have been completed in time, as after the final boss the group still needed to kill more enemies from earlier in the dungeon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, by some miracle, the key was cleared in its final moments with a spell titled &#8220;Area Death (TEST)&#8221; that instantly killed all the remaining enemies.<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/wow\/comments\/1v2xfpr\/blizzard_gm_death_touching_mobs_in_m23_for_their\/  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As you can probably assume, that&#8217;s not a spell players have access to. It immediately became clear that if the log was legitimate and not edited in any way, a Blizzard employee, possibly a gamemaster (or GM for short), helped this particular Mythic+ dungeon group. Since high-level Mythic+ is competitive, with special titles, rewards, and bragging rights reserved for the highest-rated players, a major cheating scandal like this was rightfully cause for concern among the WoW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Blizzard employee who used developer tools to allegedly help a group of friends complete a challenging Mythic+ dungeon in World of Warcraft is no longer with the company, Blizzard has confirmed. Earlier this week, a thread on Reddit called attention to a suspicious Mythic+ 23 dungeon run. A simple look at the key in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":86471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86472,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86469\/revisions\/86472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}