Comment by naitbit | Hacker News Reader

Comment by naitbit | Hacker News Reader

It's unfortunate that I was right http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3889127 If they use white list approach for their DRM it is not surprising that they flagged wine, but keeping in mind it is permanent ban and there is no way to play D3 offline, and that they refused to give refunds there are reasons to be angry at them. Fortunately personally I did not "bought" d3 because i don't like renting games(and requiring constant connection to server makes it renting).

I also found it surprising that it is apparently possible to modify client to teleport, move faster, and see data that is not allowed by standard client[1]. One would thought that after they went such a lengths to make it online only (making even map generation on server side) they would not trust a client. But apparently not.

[1] http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5978861022?page=1 "These programs may increase movement speed or teleport heroes from one place to another beyond what is allowed by game design. It also includes any programs that obtain information from the game that is not normally available to the regular player"

> i don't like renting games(and requiring constant connection to server makes it renting)

You could try the cracked version. I heard that removed this 'feature' from Assassin's Creed, and it is very likely then they will remove it from D3 too.

Of course, chances are that you may not be able to log in from cracked version - and will have to play as a single player game.

Unlikely. All of the "business logic" of the game takes place on the server. Eventually server emulators did pop up for D2, but it took a long time.

Mooege is out already. Not sure how good it is, but it seems to be out for over 6 months now (started before open beta).

AFAIK, it doesn't do anything. You can use it to connect to a server and spawn monsters that stand still.

Diablo 2 actually had all business logic in the client itself because it needed to support single player and LAN play. They were able to just use the BNetD project to run Diablo 2 compatible battle.net servers with very little D2 specific logic.

A better comparison is probably WoW. Like Diablo 3, all of the business logic is server side and it did take awhile for emulators to pop up.

World of Warcraft has the same problems, where it's possible to position your character at random places in the air and stuff like that. (among others used by people advertising for their gold-selling sites by making a lot of characters fly through the air to form words.)

There's a video of a guy being permabanned for doing this within a few minutes of starting, but damned if I can find it right now (it featured a teleport/underground mining hack).

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