Blizzard Files Suit Against Overwatch Cheat Creator

[Infernal Lawyer]

That's the funny thing IMO. Yes, Blizzard is doing this because they're money hungry. But... how is that inherently a bad thing? They're trying to protect the investments they've worked on from those who are trying to ride off their success in the most destructive manner possible (all the while giving snarky "lol can't touch us" comments no less).

To steal TheThain's quote, "Blizzard does lots of shady crap, call them out on it, but trying to stop people from ruining peoples games isn't one of them." Blizzard is, at worst, morally neutral in this situation.

You do realize that I was being sarcastic, right? About the money hungry part.

Blizzard aren't the evil corporate giants which people make them out to be. It's actually ridiculous when people try to portray them as such.

Well, I WAS trying to agree with you. I'm just pointing out that people need to stop acting as if liking money is inherently evil, or any action inspired by a want of money is inherently wrong.

Maybe the term "money hungry" has far more negative connotations than I realized. *shrugs*

 

[Satinavian]

It is good that they try to do something against cheaters. It is also good that they can't really touch this firm because German law regarding third party software is different. It is not only cheats, it is also pretty much every other supplement or add on and overall the software world is a better place if customers and 3rd party developers can develop and use interfaces to enhanced or change the abilities of software without getting successfully sued.

There is already enough "we don't want this tool to exist or to be able to work with our files because we might or might not want to implement something similar but more expensive sometime in the future" going on.

Developers should go backto selling products, not licenses and should stop trying to control how consumers use their software. And yes, i do say that as software developer.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

I wonder if Blizzard will just reverse engineer the cheating tech, so it's detectable. And anyone using it gets permabanned. Seems only fair.