Poll: It's really time to stop supporting Blizzard

[Sewer Rat]

While I do hate a lot of blizzards actions as of late (ever since Activision bought them to be precise...) but the temptation of SCII and Diablo 3 are just to much for me to boycott them... Damn you blizzard...

 

[Nosense]

Eh.. all I want is Starcraft and Diablo, and I don't ever feel the need to cheat so I guess I am out of your fledgling boycott. Best of luck trying to get Blizzard's attention though, as being banned for single player hacks is a little intense. Blizzard is run by The Kotick now however, so keep that in mind when you read stories like this.

They are hacking to get achievements, they won't get banned if they use build-in cheat codes. It is hacking for achievement that got them banned.

I know I still think they deserve the ban I just wish that the punishment should fit the crime, but its up to Blizzard what they want to do with their game and what they define as a ban ready offense.

 

[Serum211]

I don't blame Blizzard for this, if they didnt want you to cheat they would never have put cheats in the game. I blame Activision for evrything weird that Blizzard has done with Starcraft II. And im never gonna boycott a Blizzard game. Never gonna happen.

 

[RatRace123]

I'm pretty sure they're well within their rites to stop people from cheating at their games.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Banning people for cheating on Single Player?
That is a serious d*ck move, playing around with your local game a bannable offense... in what universe does that make sense?

 

[thenumberthirteen]

If people cheat to get achievements then they should be punished. I've never played a Blizzard game so I'm not really affected by this ether way.

 

[LightOfDarkness]

Doesn't Blizzard code in single player cheats already? The only ones you really need are terribleterribledamage and smoldersbolds then enter = everytime you start running low on money. Christ, the coded cheats have pretty much everything covered, why would you need a cheat program?

 

[Zanaxal]

You play video games to cheat and get achievements for it? Sad sad ppl.

Anyways just buy a new copy if your stupid enough to cheat and play online mode.

Alot of crap cheats can innavertedly damage server quality also so im all for bannning the unsanctioned cheats.

Hopefully all the people that cheat get fed up and leave blizzard games forever. That way there won't be poeple with 100000 soj rings ruining the trading when it's diablo 3 time.

 

[Zanaxal]

You play video games to cheat and get achievements for it? Sad sad ppl.

Anyways just buy a new copy if your stupid enough to cheat and play online mode.

Alot of crap cheats and trainers and hacks can innavertedly damage server quality in sp also so im all for bannning the unsanctioned cheats.

Hopefully all the people that cheat get fed up and leave blizzard games forever. That way there won't be people with 100000 soj rings ruining the trading when it's diablo 3 time.

 

[LightOfDarkness]

You do realize that using a third party program like a trainer breaks the EULA because making the trainer program requires you to reverse engineer the game, which in itself breaks the EULA right.

Don't break the rules and you won't get banned\suspended, is this such a hard concept to understand?

The player using the program likely didn't make it. You are talking about two separate entities here. Besides, consider other cheating devices. I'll bet Nintendo didn't LET Datel reverse engineer the DS but there is a cheating device for it.

It can also (IIRC) destroy your DS.

Modifying game files=breaking EULA. Just because the player didn't make the program doesn't mean he should be able to use it.

OT: Modifying game files is a bannable offense (if defined as such by some terms of agreement form) so Blizzard is well within their rights to ban him. Besides, why the hell didn't he just use Blizzard's cheats THAT THEY CODED RIGHT INTO THE MOTHERFUCKING SINGLEPLAYER?

 

[cainstwin]

I'm a little mixed on this.

Were they banned from using the cheats PUT in the game?

Or banned for using cheats blizzard didn't make?

Third party software. Blizzard aren't THAT thick. Thus, they were unbalancing the game by unlocking a bunch of achievements, which affects multiplayer.

Oh, then I have no problem with what they're doing.

Sure, achievements don't mean that much, but people are still messing with their creation.

Besides, you have an invulnerability cheat and a bunch of others...Why would you need any more?

Their creation??? Geez, doesn't it count for anything that people BOUGHT the game?

And if as an artist you draw an incredible portrait, then sell it, would you not be pissed if the person who bought it started vandalising it?
EDIT: point still stands but realise that my example wasnt great

 

[Phoenixlight]

To be honest this is one of the few boycotts that I have absolutely no interest in joining. Blizzard made arguably the greatest game of all time (World of Warcraft) and have recently released Starcraft 2 so I quite like them.

 

[Ranorak]

Why should they let people mess with their game... they made it to work a certain way and attached achievements and other rewards for accomplishing it in that way. To cheat it is still going to give you a reward when you didn't earn it? If i choose to hack all acievements to my account on anything with them wouldn't I be in the wrong

Why should Hoover let you mess with the vacuum you bought? They have no choice, buying something gives you some rights. Why do gamers love shooting themselves in the foot. "Duh, I don't want any rights Blizzard, here take my money please"!

Because when you buy a vacuum you physically own that vacuum.
When you buy software, you physically own the disk, but you don't own the software. You are allowed to use it under the conditions the owner of the software.