Blizzard bans those who use Linux from playing their games
www.cinemablend.com/games/Lots-Linux-Us ... 49121.html
www.cinemablend.com/games/Diablo-3-Nail ... 48680.html
Excerpt from the first article:
Today, however, PlayOnLinux moderated a new thread to help collect and systematically breakdown some of the bans happening, and as you can see, the thread is growing quite large, quite fast.
Additionally, even more Linux users who were hit with the ban-hammer have taken to the WineHQ forums, where you can see a number of other people coming forward about being perma-banned.
Most of the Linux users haven't received a response or the response they did receive was an automated message or a purposed misdirection to keep them going in circles. None of them have reported any sort of resolve, just like the previous Linux cases we've covered here at Gaming Blend.
Excerpt from the second article:
Blizzard avoided personally dealing with the Linux users, and instead sent out automated responses. Just part of the epic fail that is always-on DRM: If you get banned and you want to appeal it (even to play the game in single-player mode) you can't, and you can't even get a refund.
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Hope they band together and go the class action lawsuit route. Hopefully would spread more awareness as to the evil that is DRM.
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lol, are you serious? My burner/disc reader for my PC says Windows-only, on the box, as well. Does that mean that the manufacturer has the right to somehow ban me from using it, just because I won't use it under Windows? No, it doesn't. Same thing with games. And EULA's aren't even legal in the EU, so that is absolutely no argument (it tends to be, often, from those who argue for these corrupt companies, so I thought I just would throw that in there). Blizzard aren't just morally corrupt, but they also are breaking the law. If they aren't in the U.S., they ARE elsewhere.
Windows® XP/Vista/7/8 (latest service packs) with DX 9.0c
Mac® OS X 10.6.8, 10.7.x or newer*
lol, are you serious? My burner/disc reader for my PC says Windows-only, on the box, as well. Does that mean that the manufacturer has the right to somehow ban me from using it, just because I won't use it under Windows? No, it doesn't. Same thing with games. And EULA's aren't even legal in the EU, so that is absolutely no argument (it tends to be, often, from those who argue for these corrupt companies, so I thought I just would throw that in there). Blizzard aren't just morally corrupt, but they also are breaking the law. If they aren't in the U.S., they ARE elsewhere.
I meant more like the "Blizzard avoided personally dealing with the Linux users, and instead sent out automated responses."-part. Why would they have to provide support for people that don't meet the minimum reqs?
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Agreed. While (if they gave it some thought) it'd probably be in their interests (especially given Microsoft's withdrawal from the home computer OS market) to engage with people using Linux, they're under no obligation to provide support to people trying to use their game in an environment for which it wasn't intended.
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Agreed. While (if they gave it some thought) it'd probably be in their interests (especially given Microsoft's withdrawal from the home computer OS market) to engage with people using Linux, they're under no obligation to provide support to people trying to use their game in an environment for which it wasn't intended.
It isn't about them *not supporting* those who use Linux - it is about them *actively* making sure that they cannot play the game. What is so hard to understand with this? This is nothing else but fraud.
Agreed. While (if they gave it some thought) it'd probably be in their interests (especially given Microsoft's withdrawal from the home computer OS market) to engage with people using Linux, they're under no obligation to provide support to people trying to use their game in an environment for which it wasn't intended.
It isn't about them *not supporting* those who use Linux - it is about them *actively* making sure that they cannot play the game. What is so hard to understand with this? This is nothing else but fraud.
It's not about them actively making sure that they cannot play the game if their DRM and anti-cheat doesn't work properly with Wine (something that they do NOT support)
It isn't fraud, they own your account and can shut it down whenever they want.
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I kind of get why they would systematically ban people that play their games on linux. I only know about the Starcraft community, but recently, there's been a big rise in hacks and such in Starcraft 2, so I'm guessing they just don't really want crackers to have too much room to screw around in.
From what I understand, adding support for any linux distribution will take a lot of time (and money) and linux gamers are a small market, so I suppose there wouldn't be much benefit for them to enter it (relative to the cost required for that), so they would rather snuff out linux gamers.
So their actions are indiscriminate, unjust and waay too extreme, probably because it's just another problem they don't want to deal with. Typical blizz brainpower.
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it is childs play today with all the free cracker tools out there, incidently this is also why i refuse to pålay diablo 3 and other blizzard games with ties to a real economy.
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