07-05-2004, 07:15 AM
Nice read, Thanks for the link!
It is strange that Bliz did nothing about the dupe bug. But Enigma's backup utility was created inside a month anyway (I still recall trying to trade a Mindcry I found on b.net a month and a half into the game (it looked pretty good to me, and still does actually :) ) and being completely ignored because everybody already had, or was only interested in having, a dreamflange. With D1 data being stored client side, there was nothing they could do.
What is really mindboggling is that they did such an incredibly abysmal job in controlling cheating in D2. That's their true shame.
Quote:It's mindboggling that Blizzard North didn't addres the duping bug before releasing the game. But ultimately, I think the backup utilities still would have been created, and exploited for cheating purposes, and the game would have been cheat-free for only a few months.
It is strange that Bliz did nothing about the dupe bug. But Enigma's backup utility was created inside a month anyway (I still recall trying to trade a Mindcry I found on b.net a month and a half into the game (it looked pretty good to me, and still does actually :) ) and being completely ignored because everybody already had, or was only interested in having, a dreamflange. With D1 data being stored client side, there was nothing they could do.
What is really mindboggling is that they did such an incredibly abysmal job in controlling cheating in D2. That's their true shame.