06-20-2008, 02:30 AM
Quote:*AHEM*
Remember way back when the majority of us here at the LL said D2Loader was perfectly okay to use for Lurkers because all it did was allow you to play without your CD in the drive? Case-in-point.
Who are you aheming to? :) Heh, I'm in the camp that believed players8 for solo offline \sp is fine, iirc some folks were not ok with it in the very early days, because bliz did not officially endorse it. Then it became a built in\activated thing. Same with graphical lag reduction mods. Though I obviously draw the line at things like MHack etc.
Quote: Now can somebody here please to god tell me why on Earth they did not do this years ago? Seriously, can anyone here please point me in the right direction, because I'm grasping at straws here?!?
Well it's possible this is just due to my setup, but on my computer you still need the actual CD to play. What doesn't happen is the spin up on the drive. I can only guess that there's still some sort of game disc verification check, but it no longer whirrs the cd drive when you start the game.
Your guess is as good as any at to why blizz didnt do this sooner. My take is it might be some copy protection kind of thinking. Which is a whole other discussion.
Ps. I thought I gave this thing a rest. I now have Zon in USWEST.