It matters to Blizzard that people are having fun in their game, because if they aren't they don't get paid. Cheaters reduce everyone's fun level.
However, a video game shouldn't really matter to the players. If getting kicked out has a major impact in your life, you shouldn't be playing in the first place.
As long as they're getting rid of cheaters, some innocents getting caught in the mix don't bother me. It's just a video game, it doesn't really matter.
Your strategy would be a boon to cheat developers. It's really a choice between optimizing against false positives, or optimizing against false negatives.
Blizzard takes the latter strategy, and it's the right choice.
No, there have been a few false bans in the past that were reversed. The only reason it doesn't appear that way is that most cheaters immediately go to the forums to profess their innocence when they're banned.
I played WoW under Cedega with no problems, and I confirmed with a GM that it was kosher. I suspect that most, if not all, of these bannings are legitimate. Cheaters don't usually break down and admit it when caught.
No, Microsoft, like every other console manufacturer, holds back stock on release day so that there will be line ups for the media to report about. Thinking otherwise is naive.
Microsoft does exactly the same thing. It's in their interest for people to be lining up, generating free advertising, so they release an initial trickle before fully shipping stock.
There already is a special program for people with more money. It's called ebay. Straight out charging more at release would be fairer to more people, as only the unemployed have the time to stand in the lines.
But that wouldn't generate millions of dollars in free advertising for Sony, which is the real purpose of the "shortages".
Bullshit, this is all on Sony for staging artificial scarcity.
Normal people can't stand in line waiting for a video game, so if you're going to blame the ebay buyers, you'll have to blame the unemployed people who stand in line to swoop them up, whether for sale or for themselves.
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No, that's trademarks, and only trademarks.
No, but they do fade away from dominance.
Microsoft should opt not do business in Chile instead of complying. That should fix the matter posthaste ;)
Cases in point: drug laws and copyright laws.
It matters to Blizzard that people are having fun in their game, because if they aren't they don't get paid. Cheaters reduce everyone's fun level.
However, a video game shouldn't really matter to the players. If getting kicked out has a major impact in your life, you shouldn't be playing in the first place.
As long as they're getting rid of cheaters, some innocents getting caught in the mix don't bother me. It's just a video game, it doesn't really matter.
Yes, because usually the complainers did cheat.
Your strategy would be a boon to cheat developers. It's really a choice between optimizing against false positives, or optimizing against false negatives.
Blizzard takes the latter strategy, and it's the right choice.
No, there have been a few false bans in the past that were reversed. The only reason it doesn't appear that way is that most cheaters immediately go to the forums to profess their innocence when they're banned.
No, if they warn cheaters that they've been detected, cheaters will know when they're *not* detected.
It's far better to put the fear of banning in people to dissuade cheaters, even if a few innocents get caught in it.
Like lawyers?
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The /. editors don't seem to. They're talking about Native Brazilians, from what I gather.
Why would I want Mexican marijuana when I've got all the Canadian marijuana I want up here? ;)
Ergo, The US = poppie. Or something.
You do know that the US is not America, right?
I played WoW under Cedega with no problems, and I confirmed with a GM that it was kosher. I suspect that most, if not all, of these bannings are legitimate. Cheaters don't usually break down and admit it when caught.
In most places, the only reliable way to get advertisment free tv is by bittorrent.
And you wonder why it accounts for 30% of all net traffic...
Not legal right.
No, Microsoft, like every other console manufacturer, holds back stock on release day so that there will be line ups for the media to report about. Thinking otherwise is naive.
Microsoft does exactly the same thing. It's in their interest for people to be lining up, generating free advertising, so they release an initial trickle before fully shipping stock.
They could sell all the PS3s they have available, rather than create an artificial scarcity for marketing purposes.
There already is a special program for people with more money. It's called ebay. Straight out charging more at release would be fairer to more people, as only the unemployed have the time to stand in the lines.
But that wouldn't generate millions of dollars in free advertising for Sony, which is the real purpose of the "shortages".
There are. They get a massive amount of free advertisement from the artificial "shortage".
Because they get millions in free advertisement from morons standing in line.
Bullshit, this is all on Sony for staging artificial scarcity.
Normal people can't stand in line waiting for a video game, so if you're going to blame the ebay buyers, you'll have to blame the unemployed people who stand in line to swoop them up, whether for sale or for themselves.