Blizzard Confiscates Gold From Exploiters, Donates it to Charity

[Atmos Duality]

You do realize everything you wrote can be applied verbatim to every freaking game with dedicated servers ever, right?

Diablo 2 had dedicated servers, and it didn't apply, but then again Diablo 2 gave the players a choice in the matter and didn't build the game around an in game grind-economy with real money value.

So no, it doesn't apply to every game like that, but nice attempt at marginalization.

 

[TechNoFear]

That's wrong, if a dealer pays you out more than you should be allowed it is yours to keep.

'Wrong' is subjective as it ahs moral connotations, we are discussing 'legal'.

Read the fine print in the casino rules, rules you agree to play by when you place a wager.

[I have worked as a croupier.]

Also Blizzard is no state regulated bank,

Irrelevant, there was a legally valid contract.

Even if the EULA violated local laws, only the sections that violate the laws are invalid and you would have to legally prove it.

and what they did wasn't putting more money into people's accounts by mistake,

A coding error allowed people to obtain 'monies' that they did not earn and were not entitled too.

The same as if you discover that the bank has made a coding error that doubles any money you deposited on Monday mornings.
So you keep withdrawing and depositing all your money over and over, doubling it each time, until you have trillions of dollars.

Do you really think the bank has no right, legal or moral, to take back those trillions?

but instead taking their money from transactions with other people and apparently spending it on charity.

In the game these people duped gold using an exploit, bought very rare items with the gold and then sold them for real money.

It was the money made from duping gold that Blizzard took, not money 'properly' earned.

So you think that duping the gold was OK, and then using it to make real world profit off other players is also OK?

 

[Tanakh]

Diablo 2 had dedicated servers, and it didn't apply, but then again Diablo 2 gave the players a choice in the matter and didn't build the game around an in game grind-economy with real money value.

So no, it doesn't apply to every game like that, but nice attempt at marginalization.

Of course not, bans on map hacking, botting, exploiting, code injecting didn't existed in D2, massive bans (for the amount of players of D2) never happened, what was I thinking. You might want to inform the rest of the word bro, the articles you can get just by googling it should really embarrass the author:

- http://www.1up.com/news/320000-diablo-warcraft-iii-players

- http://majorslack.com/game-reviews-more/diablo-2-review-3/

- http://forums.battle.net/search.html?forumId=12016&stationId=3000&sid=3000&searchText=ban

- http://www.diablo2.com/forum/temp-ban-for-t1227.html?s=5af50e3aae715a6d2736492f546e2cbf&

 

[Belbe]

Guys crapping on about the RMAH - what the hell is stopping you from ignoring the entire thing? I haven't touched the RMAH even once and I just don't care, but clearly there are people who use it and like it. What did the RMAH fking do to you to make you hate it so bad?

And people who like to appear on anything Blizzard related and trash D3 - welcome to life, sometimes you'll pay for something and not get what you wanted. Many times it will cost you more than D3 did. No one is going to return your money, you knew the risk when you bought it in the first place. Get over it.

Good-grief.

Good job Blizzard for what they did with this situation. Keep it up.

 

[deadish]

Got to admit, Blizzard has got a hell of a slick PR department. LOL