Blizzard Further Responds to Banning Linux Users in Diablo 3

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[citation][nom]amuffin[/nom]Troll spotted![/citation]

Why? It's his opinion. I'm not a fan of it either. If you like it, great. Just as you're free to like it, I'm free to dislike it. Doesn't make me or anyone else a troll.
 
[citation][nom]Tomfreak[/nom]Why does Blizzard/D3 get special news treatment from tom much more than other games?[/citation]
This is more of a PSA if anything. I appreciate these sorts of posts.

I'm not really sure I like Blizzard as a game company based on the way their support works and how they handle users. Therefore, they don't get any of my money. Simple as that.
 
Well it was a very highly anticipated game after what, 10-12 years of waiting. Regardless of whether you or I like the game, there is quite a huge amount of people playing D3. At least Tom's reports the good along with the bad. Seems mostly bad with D3 between the DRM, bugs, and now possible bias against Linux users.
 
[citation][nom]Tomfreak[/nom]Why does Blizzard/D3 get special news treatment from tom much more than other games?[/citation]

Its not so much coverage of the game itself as it is coverage of the controversy surrounding the game.
 
Considering there isnt a giant outcry from wow and sc2 players claiming to be banned because of linux, im willing to side with bliz on this one.
 
Yikes! I feel a need to defend linuz guys here... oz noes!
Anyways, using Wine on a linux build does nothing to the game.
Blizzard should come out and congratulate these guys for getting it to work on Wine, and be playable. Unlike the early attempts at getting WoW to work on wine(without graphics corruption)

Anyways, good work linux guys... Personally, I hate linux but meh, I have enough experience to know that getting this game to work with it was prolly a real pain in the a**...

Have fun!
 
[citation][nom]aftcomet[/nom]Why? It's his opinion. I'm not a fan of it either. If you like it, great. Just as you're free to like it, I'm free to dislike it. Doesn't make me or anyone else a troll.[/citation]
Basically he didn't contribute anything to the topic of linux users and just spewed the same meaningless "this game sucks lololol". And.... people upvote and defend him
 
Oh yea, Blizzard does a great job recovering your account with them if it happens to get hacked, they even have some aspects of it automated now...
Unlike EA, who tells you to piss off, we got ur money now....
 
[citation][nom]boiler1990[/nom]This is more of a PSA if anything. I appreciate these sorts of posts.I'm not really sure I like Blizzard as a game company based on the way their support works and how they handle users. Therefore, they don't get any of my money. Simple as that.[/citation]

Its such a shame too. This is not the same Blizzard that existed before the Activision acquisition. Activision and EA only know one language $. If it doesn't make them more of it, they are not interested, and it has ruined more than a few good developers.
 
And if it is because they are running the game though wine then I do not see that as an issue anyway. The simple fact is it is not supported they new it and there for Blizzard is not responsible for any action taken because of it.
 
Blizzard has take a different approach with Diablo 3. They do not allow any mods what so ever, while WoW has thousands if not 100's of thousands of mods which they allow. It's quite possible some of these Linux users are using some mods they didn't feel was cheating, but being a mod, Blizzard is banning them.
 
[citation][nom]clivene09[/nom]Its such a shame too. This is not the same Blizzard that existed before the Activision acquisition. Activision and EA only know one language $. If it doesn't make them more of it, they are not interested, and it has ruined more than a few good developers.[/citation]
Technically Activision did not acquire Blizzard, Vivendi, which has owned Blizzard for years, acquired Activision from Bobby Kotick and merged the 2 companies to form Activision Blizzard while also keeping them as seperate companies under the newly merged holding and publishing company. They made Blizzard a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard.

While it is understand why people say Activision ruined Blizzard, because Bobby Kotick who is just a menace to the gaming community and ruined Activision's reputation, is CEO of Activision Blizzard thus making him Blizzard's boss. But when people phrase it that way, it gives the blind fan kiddies oppurtunutity to lash out because of the flaw in the argument.
 
[citation][nom]memadmax[/nom]Oh yea, Blizzard does a great job recovering your account with them if it happens to get hacked, they even have some aspects of it automated now...Unlike EA, who tells you to piss off, we got ur money now....[/citation]
Don't give Blizzard to much praise on account security.

Just last year they crippled the effectiveness of the authenticator when they made it so if the system believes you are logging in from the usual location, it won't ask you for the authenticator. So instead of just being susceptible to man in the middle (MitM) attacks which are difficult to do, it made accounts susceptible to proxy based attacks which are a lot easier to do.

Blizzard was stupid for introducing this "feature". No one asked for it, there was no outcry. If someone didn't want to use an authenticator, they merely didn't get one or disabled it. Those who wanted an authenticator want to be asked EVERY time. It was bad enough that this "feature" was even implemented in the first place, but they made it the default setting, so if you wanted to be asked every time, you had to go into Account Management and manually set it to ask every time. When D3 was released, it reverted it again to not asking for an authenticator every time and once again you had to go in and change it.

So Blizzard actually introduced a security risk themselves needlessly.
 
[citation][nom]memadmax[/nom]Oh yea, Blizzard does a great job recovering your account with them if it happens to get hacked, they even have some aspects of it automated now...Unlike EA, who tells you to piss off, we got ur money now....[/citation]

But it's true none the less. The game sucks.
 
just another server sided hacked account game, with a company baming YOU, the user, once more. Though there are hundreds of idiots out there visiting fake sites that ask you to input your account info in order to make your account more "secure", though there are a lot of people using the same username and password in the game account as in the various sites/forums/legion-clan sites they register to, this is NOT always the case...... they will never of course admit to their own account database being hacked as that would be the end of them, but this is indeed the case.

Unfortunately they only thing they have failed to persuade/convince people is that the new DRM model would prevent account hacking - in game duping and hacking and the likes. Every mmo of any kind has had hacked/cracked elements. They are no different.

BTW one of the posters is right.... this site really unnecessarily updates info too often on THIS game.
 
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