01-12-2009, 07:23 PM
Quote: My cynical take on that is bliz probably feels they have the porridge for D2's structure juuust right. There's enough threat and follow through of bannings that it will satisfy some fans who don't cheat, while not frequent and serious enough to drive away fans who do cheat and are willing to pay for a new cd key.
My less cynical take on the reality of it is, bliz probably knows there will be cheating, and the more successful they are, the bigger and tempting a target they become. They probably adopted a triage method of dealing with it considering D2's structure. Or at least have cheating happens on their terms, standards and conditions. Not on mine or yours, theirs.
Warden is currently not banning for maphacks, chantbots, and I know a few people who have since been tppk'd so it would seem only certain programs are being monitored for, supporting your theory Hammerskjold, that Blizzard is targeting specific areas of interest to maximize profit and keep the majority content. One other idea I'd like to factor into this stew here is d2 item shops - they make a killing! Some have 24-hour service with someone in India answering the phone on a toll free number. I bet whoever owns the item shops could pay someone in India less than a dollar a day to have them magic find all day long which is how they can offer such good prices. Anyways, how do you think these item shops factor into Blizzards decision, if at all? It seems to me that some of these item shops have inside connections because to my knowledge, some of them lost nothing during the ban-wave, and I bet they weren't all clean (i.e. I'm sure some of them were running bots and not just hiring poor Indians).
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