That's a pretty good incentive not to release cheats. You might get sued!
I've never heard of a game company doing this, but I'm honestly glad.
actually, i'm surprised that not much other companies are suing those responsible for making the hacks. when you think about it, it seems like an easy case to sue over, unless forbidding hacking the game isn't part of their terms or whatever
i guess they'd first have to find out exactly who to sue for the hacks, though. i know some of that shit's underground as fuck. at least, if i ever made a hack I'd try my hardest to hide my identity so this doesn't happen
[QUOTE=Cold Finger;50647416]That's a pretty good incentive not to release cheats. You might get sued!
I've never heard of a game company doing this, but I'm honestly glad.[/QUOTE]
normally i'm against this sort of action, but if overwatch's or battle.net's ToS/EULA/etc specifically says that blizzard can do this then hell yeah go for it.
(hint: all ToS/EULA stuff should follow suit)
Blizzard's "no fucks given" mentality against hackers is great.
As in, they don't care why or how you did it, you're getting permabanned no matter what.
[QUOTE=Zadrave;50649479]Blizzard's "no fucks given" mentality against hackers is great.
As in, they don't care why or how you did it, you're getting permabanned no matter what.[/QUOTE]
Shame they never developed the same attitude with WoW.
[QUOTE=Cold Finger;50647416]That's a pretty good incentive not to release cheats. You might get sued!
I've never heard of a game company doing this, but I'm honestly glad.[/QUOTE]
Its like suing The Pirate Bay in hopes to solve your piracy problems, you just chop off one head and it grows back 3.
They'll be painfully reminded they are suable, and the next gen will operate from a Ukranian domain, and charge in bitcoins.
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[QUOTE=Octopod;50648499]actually, i'm surprised that not much other companies are suing those responsible for making the hacks. when you think about it, it seems like an easy case to sue over, unless forbidding hacking the game isn't part of their terms or whatever
i guess they'd first have to find out exactly who to sue for the hacks, though. i know some of that shit's underground as fuck. at least, if i ever made a hack I'd try my hardest to hide my identity so this doesn't happen[/QUOTE]
EULA's generally aren't legally binding, however last time however they found that if you violate the EULA you would be up for copyright infringement because that would effectively revoke your license.
They've been here before a few times, [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDY_Industries,_LLC_v._Blizzard_Entertainment,_Inc.[/url]
Well, if they developed the hack without agreeing to the ToS then good luck lol. I think Blizzard's case is rather weak in this case IMO.
So what if a legitimately good player gets banned for hacks just because he got reported by someone that's mad at them? Does Blizzard just ban them, no questions asked?
[QUOTE=Doneeh;50651088]So what if a legitimately good player gets banned for hacks just because he got reported by someone that's mad at them? Does Blizzard just ban them, no questions asked?[/QUOTE]
In WoW atleast, blizzard doesn't care about cheaters/multiboxers, so I'm astounded they care here
[QUOTE=Wormy;50651255]Didn't they take action against bot software though? That's always something.[/QUOTE]
Barely, they made it so you can't follow people in battlegrounds -- which mitigates next to nothign.
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