Dupes Dupes

[the Langolier]

Thats actually the best idea i've heard yet.  Blizzard can post a warning about three weeks in advance to tell everyone that if you possess bugged items, iths, whites, etc..  your account will be deleated and your cd-key banned.  They then would have to close the realms for a massive scan.  This would effectivly and completly eraticate all of the illegal items except for dupes.  Instead of banning accounts and cd-keys for the poor saps that are unaware they are possessing a dupe, instead simply deleate all dupes.  Whola, problem solved.  After this point, every once in awhile Blizzard should do a non-announced scan for bugged, dupes, iths and then ban account and cd-keys for people who possess these items.

Thats a fantastic idea!  Lets just cross our fingers...

I also never knew the Star Wars merchandising idea.  Yes, I think that would also work for Diablo 2, however I was unaware you could get another cd-key for 10 dollars from blizzard.  I still feel its unfair for the person who buys a copy of diablo 2 off ebay for a "cheap" price, then finds out he needs a new cd-key is pretty unfair because he'll most likely end up spending more money than just going to the store and buying the game.

You are also forgetting one big thing. Money. To do something that big it would cost them a huge amount of money. Each individual account and character would have to be scanned for cheats. Rest assured that some cheats would be overlooked, and even some completely legit characters would get mangaled. And how many people on the realms who play legit have actually used duped items like SOJ's to trade for other things they need, like items for cubing. Despite what was said earlier, $150 million revenue is not that much money. The shear amount of work and money that would be needed to do this is no where near the worth the realms would get out of it. Honestly, if hacks made it on the closed realms to begin with, they will make their way there again.