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Blizzard Tries To Forbid Open Sourcing Glider
ruphus13 notes a new development in Blizzard's case against MDY, which we discussed last week. Blizzard, the maker of World of Warcraft, has now requested another injunction — to prevent the open sourcing of Glider code. Quoting: "Blizzard has asked the court for a relatively unconventional order prohibiting MDY from making the source code for its MMO Glider software available to the public, and prohibiting MDY from helping people develop other World of Warcraft automation software. Blizzard had previously asked the court to shut down MDY's WoW operations in its motion for summary judgment, but the court's summary judgment order did not address Blizzard's request. Blizzard's requests to prohibit open-source release of MDY's software and prohibit MDY's assistance in development of independent WoW bots are new to this motion — and seem likely to raise eyebrows in the open source and digital rights advocacy camps."
In WoW, maybe you don't have a right to speak freely, if Blizzard says no.
In the Real World, we have that right. We'll see which world these courts are playing their games in.
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"WoW is not all that repetitive, "
BWAhahahahhahaha..
", if you don't know why daily quests prevent the grind,"
There just a different kind of grind. More work like. They still don't give you things you need to grind for.
"- Rested XP, while you are logged out, you earn "rest", when you log back in, you earn double XP per mob kill until your rest runs out."
Nothing to do with grind.
"While this is partly due to balancing issues"
Completly to do with Balance. Not grinding for mats for those items is merely a side effect.
IN fact, none of your examples are to do with grind.
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No, but if you ahve been playing long enough where your material gathering is max, then you can buy those mats, cheap.
People are usually 'bouncing about' anyways.
"Uh... vendors will pay you 5G for an item that you could sell for several hundred times that on the open market. "
exactly my point.
This removes botting and farming for items.
Since everything is limited, all prices decrease.
It also crimps gold selling.
I should ahve mentioned that they would need to lower mount costs by 90%.
"Or maybe I can, but I can't pay them back for 30 days. Or I can't sell "
Yeah, again I should have mention lowering the price of a mounts.
That said:
SO gold selling is wrong, but gold lending isn't? Maybe I should start a banking racket.
Once a month you can get a larger portion, and your friends will need to be inconvenienced by sending many emails.
Of course, you should be playing for your mount, not borrowing.
Pass all you want, but it wouldn't limit the players, and it would make gold selling, farming, botting very hard, or completly useless.
You don't seem to be grasping the fact that global, the economy would adjust quickly, it would be easier in that there wouldn't be much grinding needed, and you can gt on to the Boss fights and winning gear.
You won't NEED 100's of gold.
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