As a side note to #3/4... Each mod can include it's own custom version of the Half-Life multiplayer server files... the core is the same, but the add-on DLL's and such (depending on if Linux or Win32) can be completely custom.
I agree.. I'm no legal expert either.. However, let me give a few examples to the contrary.
1) There's a Key Server crack out for Return to Castle Wolfenstein, that lets you play the Warez Version of it On-Line, even with a hacked/keygen'ed CD Key
2) Medal of Honor was out in the Warez circuit 2 weeks before it ever hit retail shelves. Many people I've talked intend to buy the full retail box.
3) Half-Life. 4 years old and still in one form or another has thousands of players every day.
4) Half-Life's Mod community. Valve has let Mod makers not only edit their game. They've supported them, while still incorperating a CD Key Check maintained by Valve/Won (And to this day I have yet to find a working crack for the Multiplayer CD Key issue, even though I own the game.) They have also allowed 3rd party mod developers to sell their mods and products relating to the mod's WITHOUT paying a royalty. Now that's Fan base support. Blizzard could learn alot from them.
As # 1 & 2 above demonstrate, where there is a will there is a way. You can play the Warez version of MoH-AA on Gamespy with no problems. RtCW can also be played on-line once applying the CD-KeyServer Crack. So what was the big point here. Instead of being Nazi-ish about this Blizzard should have worked with the team. It would have given more to the community, and raised Blizzards standing as a supporter of their fans, instead of being the PR Disaster it is.
I also like you had not heard of Bentd before this..
"I dunno, man, I still think they should be able to do what they deem reasonable, since there is no other way for them to enforce that.
Say I wanna make a game, that I'm Blizzard. I want X. If I can't enforce X, I won't make the game. And we, gamers, don't want that.
All I really care is that they're happy, so in turn I'm happy with their games.
I like Muffins. MOLDY muffins."
Your a corperate sheep.. Someone from Microsoft's Sales dept. will be calling you shortly to offer you a really great deal on the newest, and most secure OS they make.
As for myself. I will not be buying anything from Blizzard anymore.. and I will dissuade my roomate from doing the same.
Death to the DCMA.. it's a corperate f**king of the american people, and now the RIAA, and other "Artists Right Groups" are trying to give the legal schlong to our canadian neighbors..
Frankly, I own Diablo, Diablo ][, never was much interested in StarCraft, and have at times owned the previous versions of WarCraft. All have been store bought originals. And that EULA is BS, and frankly I'm so sick of the US Goverment being bought by big corperations for their own use. We don't have a goverment in the US anymore, we have a cheap whore, that claims to be a goverment.
(DCMA, the RIAA's activities under it with the DeCSS, and the arrest of that Russian guy awhile back.)
Frankly Piss on Blizzard.
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As a side note to #3/4 ... Each mod can include it's own custom version of the Half-Life multiplayer server files... the core is the same, but the add-on DLL's and such (depending on if Linux or Win32) can be completely custom.
I agree.. I'm no legal expert either..
However, let me give a few examples to the contrary.
1) There's a Key Server crack out for Return to Castle Wolfenstein, that lets you play the Warez Version of it On-Line, even with a hacked/keygen'ed CD Key
2) Medal of Honor was out in the Warez circuit 2 weeks before it ever hit retail shelves. Many people I've talked intend to buy the full retail box.
3) Half-Life. 4 years old and still in one form or another has thousands of players every day.
4) Half-Life's Mod community.
Valve has let Mod makers not only edit their game. They've supported them, while still incorperating a CD Key Check maintained by Valve/Won (And to this day I have yet to find a working crack for the Multiplayer CD Key issue, even though I own the game.) They have also allowed 3rd party mod developers to sell their mods and products relating to the mod's WITHOUT paying a royalty. Now that's Fan base support. Blizzard could learn alot from them.
As # 1 & 2 above demonstrate, where there is a will there is a way. You can play the Warez version of MoH-AA on Gamespy with no problems. RtCW can also be played on-line once applying the CD-KeyServer Crack. So what was the big point here. Instead of being Nazi-ish about this Blizzard should have worked with the team. It would have given more to the community, and raised Blizzards standing as a supporter of their fans, instead of being the PR Disaster it is.
I also like you had not heard of Bentd before this..
"I dunno, man, I still think they should be able to do what they deem reasonable, since there is no other way for them to enforce that. Say I wanna make a game, that I'm Blizzard. I want X. If I can't enforce X, I won't make the game. And we, gamers, don't want that. All I really care is that they're happy, so in turn I'm happy with their games. I like Muffins. MOLDY muffins." Your a corperate sheep.. Someone from Microsoft's Sales dept. will be calling you shortly to offer you a really great deal on the newest, and most secure OS they make. As for myself. I will not be buying anything from Blizzard anymore.. and I will dissuade my roomate from doing the same. Death to the DCMA.. it's a corperate f**king of the american people, and now the RIAA, and other "Artists Right Groups" are trying to give the legal schlong to our canadian neighbors..
Frankly, I own Diablo, Diablo ][, never was much interested in StarCraft, and have at times owned the previous versions of WarCraft. All have been store bought originals. And that EULA is BS, and frankly I'm so sick of the US Goverment being bought by big corperations for their own use. We don't have a goverment in the US anymore, we have a cheap whore, that claims to be a goverment. (DCMA, the RIAA's activities under it with the DeCSS, and the arrest of that Russian guy awhile back.) Frankly Piss on Blizzard.