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[TheDragoon]

Looks nice on paper, but it's completely impractical. Blizzard would lose a huge number of customers (remember, we're not really people to them; we're walking, talking dollar bills), especially since I don't think it would be realistic for them to prove, beyond any reasonable doubt, that the people they decided to punish were actually responsible for exploiting. Again, how would they determine this? And how would they deal with the community backlash? Sure, they may lose a few morally pristine customers over things like this, but they'd lose a great deal more if they attempted to punish the unscrupulous.

First, I'm pretty sure they aren't under any sort of burden to prove "beyond any reasonable doubt" since they own everything about the server-side stored character information. Second, I seriously doubt there'd be much backlash for punishing exploiters. Every time they have punished people for that sort of thing the vast majority of players responded positively to the action and told them to keep up the good work. I highly doubt that they'd lose many people beyond perhaps the people who did the deeds and they might very well retain quite a few. :)