06-26-2004, 09:34 PM
lfd,Jun 26 2004, 08:30 PM Wrote:Right up until the point where your legitimate CD key is banned by Blizzard because it's been used by a (spam|pindle|andy)botter.If someone using a spam-bot is doing so with your cd key than you have other problems to deal with. 2 seperate cd-keys are required to play D2:LoD. the original D2 key and the expansion key. each of those are exclusive so if anyone else on bnet is playing with those keys the other will not operate. if you have given your cd key to someone else that you don't know what they are doing with it than tough for you.
The chance against may be high, but million-to-one chances crop up every nine times out of ten. :)
Banning accounts of spam botters does nothing because all of the characters on those accounts have no worth other than Ad spamming. I doubt anyone is going to be upset about losing an account full of lvl 1 characters named "lkadhguiekhje". If you ban the CD key, however, you also stop the run bots associated with that key and the "legit" accounts of the offending player thus making a severe penalty for people that break the ToS. It also effectively shuts down these pay for item websites by closing the mule accounts with the stockpiles of items.