We had this discussion just yesterday, and a million times before. Can we just stop promoting this nonsense, which might lead some people to just "try stuff out" which then in turn gets them banned?
Of course scanning your memory is illegal, but not if you ask for explicit permission to do so. You give Blizzard this permission by signing the EULA at the first start of the game, otherwise you won't be able to play D3. Of course you can't just go and scan people's memory, but there are always loopholes - or what do you think how virus scanners and those things work.
A company can write what they want in their EULAs. It does not supercede a nation's laws. At least in Germany, any terms in a company's EULA, that conflict with national or case laws are nullified, even if you agreed to them. They can scan my memory based on their EULA, but they should try their best not to be caught in the act.
Please show me the German law that states that software cant scan a persons RAM after explicitly asking for permission to do so. I really do not believe such a law exists. I guess there are no virus scanners in Germany then?
The basic right to "Informationelle Selbstbestimmung". Your virus scanner comparison is lacking. Of course the virus scanner is reading my memory but it doesnt tell its company anything UNLESS I want it to send data to them regarding malware. The issue lies in sending data of myself to 3rd parties without my explicit case-by-case consent
Anyway I'm sure a ban wave will be coming to Diablo soon. Its not a matter of if, but a matter of when. Hell even the creator of the bot itself (if anyone would benefit from saying it's safe, its him) sais the bot is not 100% safe. You really are extremely stupit if you believe you're safe 'because the bot doesnt write memory'. As I said before, I can easily list 15 ways of detecting if someone is botting for Blizzard, with a few days work and a patch they could detect all with 100% catch rate I'm sure.
Jesus, this defeatist mindset regarding legal issues is really telling.
We had this discussion just yesterday, and a million times before. Can we just stop promoting this nonsense, which might lead some people to just "try stuff out" which then in turn gets them banned?
Of course scanning your memory is illegal, but not if you ask for explicit permission to do so. You give Blizzard this permission by signing the EULA at the first start of the game, otherwise you won't be able to play D3. Of course you can't just go and scan people's memory, but there are always loopholes - or what do you think how virus scanners and those things work.
A company can write what they want in their EULAs. It does not supercede a nation's laws. At least in Germany, any terms in a company's EULA, that conflict with national or case laws are nullified, even if you agreed to them. They can scan my memory based on their EULA, but they should try their best not to be caught in the act.
Now, what could be added - is a ruleset/rulebook/info page/whatever, by blizz stating how each, basic modifier works (like elemental damage etc, whether it's additive or multiplicative). In a form of either readme or some information menu in the game. I could be fine with that approach.
This is exactly the thing they will never do. Because it requires them to create an inventory of mechanics they have. At that point they will realize, how they created inconsistent game mechanics which will in turn provoke an outcry to unify game mechanics into consistent behavior.
You are playing the wrong game. You are looking for sensations commonly found in RPGs, which never were served by D3 or any Diablo part for that matter.
You get gear and get to kill stuff for better stuff so you can kill more stuff for even better stuff. And then there's leaderboards and seasons and s***. Torment and Monster Power are only means to an end to provide a challenge for experienced players to improve the relation between "time spent killing monsters" and "legendary drop chance".
The challenge does not lie in killing specific enemies. You kill ridiculous amounts of enemies. It lies in improving your gear to get every percentage out of it and with GRifts you have a dynamic difficulty where you can compete and compare your progress with others.
It seems the way Blizzard communicated the change is more of an issue than the actual change itself - which really is a non-issue, because you know, more legs. Most people make it painfully obvious that they have no clue about mathematics and stochastics at all. Leave out the numbers and make it entirely in wording.
Hated it. From a technical perspective more outdated on launch than the WoW auction house despite being 9 years younger and absolutely ravaged ingame economics and gameplay balance.
Misleading thread title is misleading. Was expecting a serious discussion, got a rant. Whatever.
I expect the GAH to be suffering from high inflation after RMAH hits and botters got enough time to build up their niches. The volume of producable gold and the demand of gold are both higher than in WoW, which will be some sort of equilibrium but only in the sense between these two factors. Items like Stormshield where high demand is a given will probably be affected the most.
You played a game for 65 hours and then refunded it...? Geez... I mean I play most new games for perhaps 10 hours up to a maximum of 30 hours, doesn't really matter if you didn't enjoy the product you still fully took advantage and finished the game 3 times over...
Lucky everyone's not like you because then there wouldn't be any gaming industry today with people completing the games and then refunding them.
On the other hand, it was Blizz that decided it was a good idea to bash on the ME 3 debacle. Refuse to grant refunds if people feel your product is lacking and a keen customer might come and take your reference to bite you back in the ass..
65 hours is more time than a lot of my games get. I don't understand why they refunded your money.
It was a hopeful grind, I was trying my best to be optimistic that it will get better and enjoy the game. Unfortunately that never happened. Besides, like I wrote, I lost items on the AH due to the idiotic bugs, too laggy etc. But that was just technical things, I'm sure you'll understand why I REALLY don't like it. Anyways, I thank Diablo 2/LOD for good teenage memories, it was a simpler time.
I think he actually means, that you got your money worth in playtime yet they refunded it, even if you did not enjoy it fully.. Basically you got everything, they got nothing. It is pretty generous, considering they know a lot about your playing habits through Battle.net.
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The basic right to "Informationelle Selbstbestimmung". Your virus scanner comparison is lacking. Of course the virus scanner is reading my memory but it doesnt tell its company anything UNLESS I want it to send data to them regarding malware. The issue lies in sending data of myself to 3rd parties without my explicit case-by-case consent0
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A company can write what they want in their EULAs. It does not supercede a nation's laws. At least in Germany, any terms in a company's EULA, that conflict with national or case laws are nullified, even if you agreed to them. They can scan my memory based on their EULA, but they should try their best not to be caught in the act.
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You get gear and get to kill stuff for better stuff so you can kill more stuff for even better stuff. And then there's leaderboards and seasons and s***. Torment and Monster Power are only means to an end to provide a challenge for experienced players to improve the relation between "time spent killing monsters" and "legendary drop chance".
The challenge does not lie in killing specific enemies. You kill ridiculous amounts of enemies. It lies in improving your gear to get every percentage out of it and with GRifts you have a dynamic difficulty where you can compete and compare your progress with others.
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I expect the GAH to be suffering from high inflation after RMAH hits and botters got enough time to build up their niches. The volume of producable gold and the demand of gold are both higher than in WoW, which will be some sort of equilibrium but only in the sense between these two factors. Items like Stormshield where high demand is a given will probably be affected the most.
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On the other hand, it was Blizz that decided it was a good idea to bash on the ME 3 debacle. Refuse to grant refunds if people feel your product is lacking and a keen customer might come and take your reference to bite you back in the ass..
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I think he actually means, that you got your money worth in playtime yet they refunded it, even if you did not enjoy it fully.. Basically you got everything, they got nothing. It is pretty generous, considering they know a lot about your playing habits through Battle.net.