10-05-2004, 05:38 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-05-2004, 05:42 AM by Archon_Wing.)
Blizzard never really was appoving of 3rd party programs. But they seem to have had their eye on BnetD for a while. Here's what I think:
One of the selling features of most blizzard game is battle.net capability. People could pirate the game for single player, but they would be denied access to the online gaming service without a valid cd key. Sure, you always have some people who go to certain limits to get around this, but many people would just buy the game for online gaming. If people could log on to online servers without a cd key then, then it would remove this safeguard. That's probaly why BnetD was singled out. It would be a greater threat to revenue then things such as d2accelerator. I doubt they would bother spending time and money to stop d2acceelrator.
P.S. This is all speculation.
One of the selling features of most blizzard game is battle.net capability. People could pirate the game for single player, but they would be denied access to the online gaming service without a valid cd key. Sure, you always have some people who go to certain limits to get around this, but many people would just buy the game for online gaming. If people could log on to online servers without a cd key then, then it would remove this safeguard. That's probaly why BnetD was singled out. It would be a greater threat to revenue then things such as d2accelerator. I doubt they would bother spending time and money to stop d2acceelrator.
P.S. This is all speculation.
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