Quote:To my knowledge Blizz hasn't stated that this is their opinion - my apologies if they have, and please disregard the below post. they say that they don't support it, but then they don't support muling either.
What is in blizzards opinion isn't ALWAYS an argument for something to be cheating or not.
I don't want to sound like Sirian here but... well, you know what i mean. ;)
Quote:There is a difference between DiabloII (at the moment anyway) and a game of monopoly, and that is that in DiabloII most people aren't competing, why? all the ladders are full of level 99's, the ladder season hasn't been restarted since I've been using Bnet and most people play PvM. Unless you have people competing against each other (i.e. to level fastest and get to the top of the ladder or in a duel), someone spending real life money to get an 'advantage' over someone else isn't really a problem. Since there's no real 'advantage' to be gained
Quote:They may have an item that they haven't worked for, and I haven't got one because I didn't spend money, but they aren't competing against me, so I couldn't care less.
With this argument you can also justefy the use of duped items, this is exacly what i was talking about. (ok, i know that duping couses lag, and devaluates the trade values of these items, but these are only additional problems that make duping even worse.
Also, there are probably more things that you don't happen to care about but are still wrong anyway, so that is not an argument
Quote: it's really just an extension of ingame trading,
Its not an extension, it makes a diffrent game! Or else hacked items are also extensions to the game's normal potential. (as some of the pro-hackers seem to argue)
Real monney is not part of the game, and it does not belong to the game, only ingame trading is!
I must add that i do agree with you that its effect on me (just as the effect it has on you) is very small and for this reasen i don't really care about it (just as you do) (exept of course that it motivates duping) But this is not a part of this discussion.
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