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   Blizzard

   

   bmac (profile), Jun 9th, 2006 @ 1:55pm

   
   

   Do they get their practices from the RIAA or MPAA? Or are they just sore losers because they didn't get to market with the hints book before Kopp?
   
   Free market economy--ain't it a b!+ch!!

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   Anonymous Coward, Jun 9th, 2006 @ 2:12pm

   
   

   "Kopp agrees... um... to keep the book as it is now."
   
   I thought he agreed to remove links to cheat sites.

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   Anonymous Coward, Jun 9th, 2006 @ 10:34pm

   
   

   If blizzard was smart they would just cancel Kopps account(s) and anyone with a similiar name on a credit card for that zip code, and then change every thing in the hint book in their next patch. Problem solved.

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   Moogle, Jun 10th, 2006 @ 5:03am

   
   

   #3 AC: Yeah, except for when the next hint book comes out, and they change around the system again, everyone gets pissed off and quits for the 101 other MMOs. Blizzard gets left with a dead goose and no gold in sight.
   
   #2 AC: I hadn't heard that he had cheat site links. That makes me feel a whole lot more sympathetic to Blizzard. They can't possibly fix every exploit, there are probably too many small ones and any big ones are likely flaws inherint to the design. They can't do much about random websites, but someone profiting from selling hard copy of exploits or instructions on how to find them helps their players more than the equivalent ammount of labor invested in bug fixes.
   
   Their tactics are still slimeball, but I'm getting pretty jaded to that from reading Techdirt daily. :)

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   Brain fart

   

   Moogle, Jun 10th, 2006 @ 5:07am

   
   

   "They can't do much about random websites, but someone profiting from selling hard copy of exploits or instructions on how to find them helps their players more than the equivalent ammount of labor invested in bug fixes."
   
   I meant for that to say something along the lines of: Someone profiting from selling hard copy [...] can actually be stopped, and doing so helps their players [...]
   
   I obviously need more sleep.

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   meh

   

   BlackCow, Jun 10th, 2006 @ 1:00pm

   
   

   meh, WoW. If I played that (knowing me) my life would probaly be consumed into it, I try to stay away from MMOs. I wasted en entire summer playing there, and that wasent even a game, it was just a chatting MMO. So ill stick with my first persons shooters.

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   Re: meh

   

   Brad, Jun 10th, 2006 @ 3:28pm

   
   

   Get lost in games much?
   
   Six of one, half-dozen of the other.

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   Anonymous Coward, Jun 12th, 2006 @ 8:10am

   
   

   The problem with the book was that there was too much inconsistency, every patch someting changes and it would make the book less and less accurate. After expansions, most guidebooks are useless. I can see Blizzards point of view, the book will be inaccurate in 6 months and people will get confused about how something works. Books about MMOs should not be, leave it to discussion forums and active fansites.

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