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Re:Blizzard Sends Cease-and-Desists to Diablo II: Resurrecte... by jsiepkes on Thursday May 27, 2021 @05:10PM (#27308601)
> The original Blizzard allowed the community to play with their games beyond the intended main experience of the game.

Blizzard has never been afraid to come down hard on it's fans. I think they may have even invented it in 98 with how they handled the bnetd situation [1]. I had certainly never heard of something like that before the bnetd thing happened.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bnetd

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Re:Blizzard Sends Cease-and-Desists to Diablo II: Resurrecte... by proc0 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @05:47PM (#27308979)
That seems like normal corporate behavior, you can't expect a company to allow cracking and hacking of their games.

> This allows players to access full multiplayer functionality of Battle.net capable games without a valid CD key, by connecting to a bnetd server.

It's nothing compared to Activision/Blizzard, in my opinion. The fact that they provided map editors for WC and SC is what I mean. They used to allow a level of community control and sharing that in recent games is not there anymore.

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