on A) I have to agree, Blizzard has been putting hardcoded cheats into the system since the first Warcraft, I still remember 'It's a good day to die' from when I used to play back in the day.
on B) They sue now because the stakes have gone up. Imagine if WoW became rampant with hacks and mods. The economy on the servers would crash, it would become pointless for those who play if your tank somehow has 80,000k life. People have invested alot more into Blizzards games and thus our expectations as gamers have gone up as well. The last thing Blizzard wants is to have it's WoW community or any of it's community trying to lynch them because we are giving them how many billions of dollars a month and they can't provide a legitimate game experience. So, I would say they are justified in suing to prevent the online aspect from being corrupted.
LGJ: Blizzard, Cheating and Copyright Infringement
Nov 6th 2010 10:48AM (Joystiq)on A) I have to agree, Blizzard has been putting hardcoded cheats into the system since the first Warcraft, I still remember 'It's a good day to die' from when I used to play back in the day.
on B) They sue now because the stakes have gone up. Imagine if WoW became rampant with hacks and mods. The economy on the servers would crash, it would become pointless for those who play if your tank somehow has 80,000k life. People have invested alot more into Blizzards games and thus our expectations as gamers have gone up as well. The last thing Blizzard wants is to have it's WoW community or any of it's community trying to lynch them because we are giving them how many billions of dollars a month and they can't provide a legitimate game experience. So, I would say they are justified in suing to prevent the online aspect from being corrupted.