06-03-2003, 10:00 PM
Quote:Would this mean ban anyone who has a hacked or duped itemon a character? A lot of trading goes on, and a lot of the traded items are duped or hacked. I'm sure a lot of people would not trade for these items if they knew that the items were dupedor hacked. To ban these people would not make a whole lot of sense.
IMO yes, if it is such an obvious item like the "white ring".
If you see an item on b-net, that is vastly overpowered, like having +20 skills and still being white (as in not unique, rare, set or crafted. White as in the same color every normal non-magical weapon has) then you can't really claim that you didn't know this was an illegal item.
If anyone thinks that one is legal the first time they see it, then having their CD-Key banned is the least of their problems.
This only goes for the clearly hacked/illegal items of course. There is afaik no way you can look at one item and tell if it is a dupe or not, so there is no way of catching those who are using dupes. The only solution would be to find a way to detect who is actually doing the duping and not who is using duped items.
The only sure way to clean up b-net would be to reset the whole thing, but I can see that doing something like that would enrage so many players that it would hurt more than it would help. I wouldn't mind it, but I guess a lot of others would.
Dupes are here to stay, let us just hope they find a way to prevent more from being made and to ban every one who is using a clearly hacked item. If a couple of innocent people gets it then that is just too tough.
Life works that way; it's not always fair.