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LOL. What is the point of playing the game if you don't want to do that?
Should Blizzard win, in the most nightmarish circumstance (which would never in a million years happen, I'd hope), Microsoft could write an new EULA that states the installation any program they don't like would be a violation of their copyright for Windows. This could then be used to force software companies to pay for licensing rights to have their software be acceptable on Windows machines or have their team of lawyers sic 'em. Independent programmers could be completely put out of business, moving us closer and closer to corporate control of our computers.
Again, it's worst case scenario and not really a good way to do business, but it could happen. Regardless, I don't think Blizzard is all that likely to win.
Just need something other than Punk Buster.....i think i threw up when I said that. PB is the reason why 90% of the time you can get online or your game crashes....
"Oh man, I'm in the mood to play WoW."
*sets up program and walks away*
"This is awesome!"
First of all, I don't believe they're fining the cheaters, they're fining the company that helps people to cheat.
Why?
WoW is a game that requires people to pay a monthly fee to play. If cheating becomes rampant, players will end up doing one of two things: pay this company a bunch of money so they can cheat too so that they can stay competitive in the game, or quit WoW out of frustration because the cheaters have taken over and they have no hope of ever equaling them through fair play.
The particular issue in this case is the way Blizzard is going about filing the lawsuit. It's not a case of copyright infringement, it's a case of contract violation. If the copyright infringement case succeeds (which it won't), there will be far reaching implications across the software industry.
However, in terms of the contract breaching, it's perfectly legitimate that they're pissed about it, and it makes sense for them to try to shut these companies down. It's one thing to give yourself extra lives in a single player game, it's another to cheat when you're competing against thousands of other people who are all regularly paying money to play the game.
Wowglider is fucking lame, and I'm glad Blizzard is attacking it with full force
I don't know if the methods of stopping them are bad, but stopping cheating, gold farmming/selling, and all the shadiness that surrounds that stuff is ok in my book.
Though, some evil part of me also thinks it would be great to see GameStop go out of business from the inability to buy used games at 1/3 the normal price and sell them for $5 less than new price.
Also, fuck the RIAA.
It's obvious the REAL issue here, is Blizzard is pissed at somebody making money by selling "accessories" for their game, they don't give a shit about people cheating.
Cheating is stupid, but again, it's a freakin' video game. It's not harming ANY one. I mean, what's next?
-Interrupting a movie at a theater: life in prison.
-Talking on a cell phone at the dinner table: fine of $2,000.
-Selling your used games breaks a future EULA (that by reading it, somehow binds it to you [yet putting a sign on your house that says "Come inside without permission, I shoot you" sends you to prison over"]): fine of $20,000,000! These homeless game developers need their spendings!!
-Smoking a joint in the privacy of your own home: prison (oh wait... they already passed that one)
The change in law that they propose runs a very slick slope with regards to riht management. Having a loop hole as big as the article describes, making the user at once law-abiding and, at whim, an outlaw, is pretty twisted. One would hope a smart attorney will point this out and rework this for the better.
But I definitely stand by my earlier statements and give my usual nod to Mxyzptlk's assessment.
There's a big difference between cheat coding in Morrowind and cheating in a live, player populated and at times competitve game like WoW.
Its like a guy providing and running a rec center, and a few kids go around bullying and cheating all the kids that want to play fair, use the equipment as specified under the membership agreement, and just have a generally good time. If the guy running the center doesn't step in, somehow, he looks like a jerk, kids will stop coming to his rec center, and those same cheating jerks just find another rec center.
No idea what that meant because you did what I do: never proof read. But no, I'm allowed to whine about this crap. I hate cheaters just as much as most people, most sane people that is. But to fine them? Goodness, you must have a nose as brown as yule logs.