You know, I have bought my share of Blizzard titles, and I utilized bnetd so that I could host games without having to connect to the specific battle.net servers and their fluxuating latency (which is fixed now I presume). I think its interesting that they canned this effort in the aim of piracy, which battle.net is not what I purchased, but the games however are. If they wanted a major victory against piracy, they should instead go after people "committing" piracy, which would be the individuals who use their software without paying for it, and thus without a valid license. I find this comparable to doctors giving prescriptions to treat symptoms rather than the cause of the problem (as its typical laziness in this case when one doesn't have the time to do the research). Much in this scenario, Blizzard is too lazy to pursue the individuals who pirate their software, but rather punish anyone by association of a product that may or may not be used in the manner that they are claiming.
I think products can sell themselves, and I certainly think that good companies cause much sales. Noting that I play most of my games on the Linux platform, there isn't too much reason for me to purchase Blizzard games (and no, that doesn't mean I pirate them either). I'm not a huge fan of emulation, but I do currently use emulation to play some of my older games. (Which makes me wonder, does that mean that Blizzard should go after emulators if I can play a pirated title of theirs? I would think not, as I can play it in Windows over the same manner.) If Blizzard would be interested in porting some of their older titles to Linux, I would be obviously interested in checking that out, and there again, I would be interested in some of their titles.
I guess to sum this up without continuing my rambling and bitterness, I will have to say this: If bnetd was arriving at a state to allow gamers to play on it instead of battle.net for World of Warcraft, then I would understand their decision, but if it wasn't, then I think it is rediculous.
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Posted by: Fletch on October 17, 2005 10:36 PMI think products can sell themselves, and I certainly think that good companies cause much sales. Noting that I play most of my games on the Linux platform, there isn't too much reason for me to purchase Blizzard games (and no, that doesn't mean I pirate them either). I'm not a huge fan of emulation, but I do currently use emulation to play some of my older games. (Which makes me wonder, does that mean that Blizzard should go after emulators if I can play a pirated title of theirs? I would think not, as I can play it in Windows over the same manner.) If Blizzard would be interested in porting some of their older titles to Linux, I would be obviously interested in checking that out, and there again, I would be interested in some of their titles.
I guess to sum this up without continuing my rambling and bitterness, I will have to say this: If bnetd was arriving at a state to allow gamers to play on it instead of battle.net for World of Warcraft, then I would understand their decision, but if it wasn't, then I think it is rediculous.
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