Thought this was funny

[Occhidiangela]

In Golf, it is the USGA. Their rules are what sets the condition of play.

In Diablo II, and in its expansion, it is Blizzard. They set the rules of play. Blizzard has proclaimed that MapHack is a cheat, something many of us already knew intuitively and via reading the bnet Terms of Use and the EULA.

Pete makes the point that if the features of maphack were adopted by Blizzard, it might indeed be a game improvement.

But it has not been. Public bnet is an arena where all players are playing a game, and a game is defined by its rules. Since the Official Blizzard Rules do not at present inlcude the Maphack features, anyone who uses it is cheating by going beyond the rules. They are using seven cards in a game of five card stud. More importantly, they also can negatively impinge on the playing experience of the player who does not use it in a public game.

In a duel, the non Map Hacker for example will see the other player later when across the screen "X" distance away.

In the free for all grabfest of public games, the Map Hack user often 'sees' runes, and some other choicer drops, sooner due to a color coding feature. He thus has an advantage, an unfair one, of not having to scan a lot of text before choosing the first thing to click on when there is treasure all over the ground.

I won't go into the pro and con of all features, as I am not familiar enough with that cheat to discuss them all: I have gleaned this info from posted readme's from Mousepad's program that were included in duscussions at dii.et, where the great Map Hack debate never ends.

Are the features that Mousepad includes an improvement? Well, Blizzard does not think so. The game creator does indeed have the last word, at least on Realm games. (All Ith swords aside . . .) Hence the comment about 'going to Open' to cheat. That was declared a free fire zone a long time ago.

EDIT: forgot to preview, fixed dumb mistakes.