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Battle.net Accounts Becoming Mandatory For WoW
An anonymous reader tips news that Blizzard will be requiring all World of Warcraft players to use Battle.net accounts to log into the game starting on November 11th. After that time, players who don't switch will be unable to play the game. Some time after the transition is complete, players will be able to "participate in cross-realm chat in World of Warcraft, create real-life friends lists, and communicate across different games." More details on the new Battle.net and what it will do are available in our Blizzcon wrap-up and interviews from August. Naturally, the idea that the new Battle.net is getting closer to deployment has sparked speculation that the StarCraft II beta might come along soon.
Of courrrrse they will. At the very least, that tokenizer will be used to log into BattleNET itself. If the existing ones are obsolete..i 'm sure they'll give them away in bulk. Every Blizzcon attendee got one for free, I don't even play WoW.
An MMORPG where I can't cheat is already a ruined experience by me.
Cheating is just playing a different game
Accepting the rules as fixed and inflexible is silly. Almost every MMO has some sort of stats you can minmax, is that cheating? You can certainly gain a superior advantage above anyone who doesn't and "ruin their experience". Just because something is forbidden by the rules doesn't make it bad, and just because some behavior is permitted doesn't make it desirable.
MMOs are sandboxes, and as a broader abstraction so is everything online. You can try and tell people how to play in sandboxes, but there will always be those who seek out the gaps because a complex system is interesting for its own sake.
Not every hacker/exploiter cares about ruining peoples fun. Some just like exploring the limits of the programming.
Then go crawl back into the cess pit you crawled out of and let those who wish to play for fun do so. Not to find some noob who has level 5 million armour on day 1 with the sword of death and is camping the quest everyone needs.
Loser!
Really smart people don't get CAUGHT! ^^
And really smart developers have integrated the cheating into the mechanics and — without the user knowing that — made it just another one of the ways of playing the game.
Because if in real life, you live a successful life and have many children, because you cheated... does it really matter that you didn't do it the "right" way? Evolution doesn't care.
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
I do not want any contact with the StarCraft retards, so I might quit playing. They're even worse than the other WoW-players. And yeah, I do expect the people that would gladly suck all the cocks at Blizzard HQ for a new StarCraft to mod me down.
-- Linux user #369862
Whoever modded this as "troll" needs a boot up the ass.
You are welcome on my lawn.
This means that the SC2 beta will be released November
I know you think that everyone knows all the acronyms you know...but I don't. So what is SC2???
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