07-22-2006, 08:25 PM
Quote:How can you honestly believe that? Blizzard chose to have cheating continue in a game when they could have stopped it, even when they made attempts to stop it, made it harder, and eliminated duplicates?
I can believe it because I have seen the code Dr. Zed used to fix it. It amounts to two memory copies, one at the top of the item handling routine and another at the bottom. That's one extra statement in each of two places in the Diablo code to fix it. His fix was a bit more involved because of storage space requirements, which anyone working with the original source code would not need to worry about. They could just create a new location on the stack to hold the item.
Blizzard chose to leave duping in place and claim it was unfixable because they knew how many people liked the duping bug. Consider how many cheaters you see on a given day (now or then). Assume at least half of them use duplicated items (probably an absurdly low estimate). How many of them would whine or outright quit if they suddenly lost the ability to duplicate items?