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Kambiz: I've been playing WoW for about two years, so I got mad when the ban was announced. I mean, I put so much time, not to mention money, into this game, so not being able to play just makes me mad. At first, there was an article in the news saying that Iran had banned the game for "promotion of superstition and mythology", "promotion of violence due to too much violence" (I'm not exaggerating, this is exactly what they wrote) and for the "demonstration of inappropriate clothing", because of all the slutty outfits for female avatars. But then we found out it was because of the trade sanctions.
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I've been looking, but I've found nothing so far. Some friends told me that they used a proxy server, but I just don't want to risk being banned completely.Do you think the ban could spark protests in Iran?
There aren't that many WoW players in Iran – maybe a 1000 people – and 75 percent of them play on private servers. So no, I don't think so.Do you think the sanctions against Iran are fair?
Well, I think the Iranian regime brought it on themselves, but it is a bit unfair on civilians. I wish they could come up with something that wouldn't affect the civilians, because it's not their fault that the regime aren't cooperating.

Mamad: I've been playing WoW for seven years, and the first thing that attracted me was the fact that you can connect with players from all over the world, which is exactly what this ban has stopped. All the Iranian players were shocked when the ban was announced because they've all constantly been paying money for the last however many years to play, and it's suddenly gone. A lot of people have already pre-paid for Mists of Pandaria, the next expansion pack, as well, and nobody's getting their money back.Is there a way around the ban?
We've been using VPNs to play for a while, but the VPN speed has decreased massively recently, which means we can't play like we did before.
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I don't think so, no. The game was banned by Blizzard because of the USA's sanctions, not by Iran, so there's no one to get angry at here.

