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Re:Report: Blizzard Banning Diablo III Players For Using Linux by reitzensteinm on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @02:34AM (#4192829)
Which sounds perfectly reasonable, but it's not necessarily the truth. As another commenter posted here, this has happened before with WoW users [1].

They claimed that they tried and failed to replicate the failure, but anyone who's done any kind of software development knows this is far from conclusive proof.

A post mortem on the logs of the banned accounts is absolutely necessary. If they're not willing to do that, they should at least refund the accounts.

[1] http://www.linuxlookup.com/2006/nov/22/blizzard_unbans_linux...

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Re:Report: Blizzard Banning Diablo III Players For Using Linux by brainfed on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @02:57AM (#4192893)
They're claiming it's not the same thing. http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5978861022?page=23 Seems like they're confident that the people involved were cheating.

Also, other WINE users are posting saying they've had no issues.

The story's being spread around now, so I guess we'll see one way or another because other users with the issue will either show up, or they won't.

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Re:Report: Blizzard Banning Diablo III Players For Using Linux by makomk on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @05:37AM (#4193277)
There are multiple versions of Wine out there, and the exact results potentially depend on the user's Linux distro, the exact versions of packages installed, the compiler version it's built with, ... One of the problems Wine developers have is that DRM is often very fragile and sensitive to software changes that are outside their control.
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