I think we have some miscommunication issues here. My claim was that the majority of users in the Annihilus-hunting community were cheaters (and quite open about it).
Blizzard may or may not have made the right decision in this regard. I'm not offering critique; merely a facet of explanation that does not seem to have been discussed yet.
On a somewhat related note, how much collateral damage are you (We? Not YOU specifically.) prepared to deal with in order to keep the game clean (which I am well aware is currently an impossibility).
As a semi-competitive player of several games that have banned, restricted, and rebalancing by functionality elements, I can honestly say that I'm willing to have a facet of my play take a hit for the greater good. I'd rather have a better game that flips me the bird every once in awhile than a worse game that lets abuse run rampant.
--me
edit: Thinking back, I'm not even sure these particular users were using something as innocuous as D2Loader for their purposes, but my memory is a little fuzzy on the program specifics (never had the desire to load multiple copies myself, so I didn't pursue it heavily).
Blizzard may or may not have made the right decision in this regard. I'm not offering critique; merely a facet of explanation that does not seem to have been discussed yet.
On a somewhat related note, how much collateral damage are you (We? Not YOU specifically.) prepared to deal with in order to keep the game clean (which I am well aware is currently an impossibility).
As a semi-competitive player of several games that have banned, restricted, and rebalancing by functionality elements, I can honestly say that I'm willing to have a facet of my play take a hit for the greater good. I'd rather have a better game that flips me the bird every once in awhile than a worse game that lets abuse run rampant.
--me
edit: Thinking back, I'm not even sure these particular users were using something as innocuous as D2Loader for their purposes, but my memory is a little fuzzy on the program specifics (never had the desire to load multiple copies myself, so I didn't pursue it heavily).