07-19-2006, 09:10 AM
Quote:I would also be very happy to see a 1.10 "update" made for Diablo among the community of Battle.net gamers. As far fetched as it sounds, if it was of a high enough quality I could actually see Blizzard biting and using it. Perhaps that's a bit of a dream, though. In any case, I would love a patch that fixed the MS bug, the dupe bug, the horizontal walk bug, the lack of stunlock when friendly, the use of scrolls from the belt bug, an anti-crash, or anti-autokill. While I agree that these are hacks, and some of them assuredly violate the ToS, (Please read said paragraph in it, before trying to mention that ALL hacks violate the ToS.) they are helpful for the Diablo community.
I don't picture Blizzard implementing a "patch" that was made without the game's source code. The would want to do their own fixes, and I don't them taking time to do that at this point either. Honestly, it has always been a bit of a slap in the face that they have done nothing about duping in all these years, when the bug was known from day one, and the fix is not nearly as hard as Blizzard PR make it out to be. However, they did ask us to make a bug list, and they did fix a considerable number of those bugs in 1.07, so they deserve some credit for that. But in any case, I think any future Diablo patches will be strictly to maintain b.net compatibility if and when future changes are made to the setup of b.net.
Quote:In all honesty, if Blizzard sent one man around with even a rudimentary knowledge of Diablo into public games, he could kick hundreds of players in a day with no one the wiser. Let me dream. =D
Since it is a peer to peer game, all character data is stored on the user's computer rather than b.net servers, and there are no CD keys, there is really nothing meaningful that Blizzard can do about cheating in this game.
Quote:I have another question, related to violating the ToS. Do you think such a program as an anti-autokill actually modify the gameplay? I'm interested to see where people stand on this issue, because I've encountered very differing comments about it.
In terms of the ToS, I don't really know. I barely pay attention to the ToS. I'm not sure it is valid, and I don't think it even existed when I purchased Diablo. In general, I would say that a strict anti-autokill program should not modify gameplay, because autokill itself is not an aspect of gameplay. To me that is definitely not cheating (whereas a general anti-PK program most definitely IS cheating). I'd say the ability to see possibly legit items that other players have in their inventory is more questionable than the anti-autokill, assuming the anti-autokill does not have any side affects on the game.