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Jozrael · 07-13-2009, 10:06 PM

@phamtc: Agreed, but they have to do something. Evidently they're putting a lot of thought into this bnet 2.0 to make pirating it undesirable as an alternative.

MSD: They mass banned accounts that used 3rd party programs (hacks) all at once, after ignoring it for several years. While you could argue that not doing anything for years at a time leads to tacit acceptance, they only banned for things explicitly not allowed in the EULA. It's not to get people to move to WoW. Thousands of us gamers cheer when they do mass bannings of wc3 keys that were caught maphacking, etc. They should do it more often, in my opinion.

I'm not sure if it'll get pushed to a 2010 release. Blizz hasn't released any word about the final release, but beta will be -soon-. They said summer, and it's July. I'd expect latest to be Blizzcon, or the week or 2 after that.

A summer beta does suggest that they are pushing for a holiday release. If they INTEND on doing that and just miss it, perhaps they will make a late Jan/feb release. If they're NOT intending this and truly preparing for an epic development cycle, then good money is on either March 31st or June 6th to commemorate previous releases.

@Willravel: LAN parties of a sort will still be totally functional. If every1 logs on to bnet 2.0, they will still have the ridiculously low delay times that are lovely for a LAN party, and they may even be able to disconnect from bnet after the initial setup.

07-13-2009, 10:06 PM	#14 (permalink)
Jozrael Junkie	@phamtc: Agreed, but they have to do something. Evidently they're putting a lot of thought into this bnet 2.0 to make pirating it undesirable as an alternative. MSD: They mass banned accounts that used 3rd party programs (hacks) all at once, after ignoring it for several years. While you could argue that not doing anything for years at a time leads to tacit acceptance, they only banned for things explicitly not allowed in the EULA. It's not to get people to move to WoW. Thousands of us gamers cheer when they do mass bannings of wc3 keys that were caught maphacking, etc. They should do it more often, in my opinion. I'm not sure if it'll get pushed to a 2010 release. Blizz hasn't released any word about the final release, but beta will be -soon-. They said summer, and it's July. I'd expect latest to be Blizzcon, or the week or 2 after that. A summer beta does suggest that they are pushing for a holiday release. If they INTEND on doing that and just miss it, perhaps they will make a late Jan/feb release. If they're NOT intending this and truly preparing for an epic development cycle, then good money is on either March 31st or June 6th to commemorate previous releases. @Willravel: LAN parties of a sort will still be totally functional. If every1 logs on to bnet 2.0, they will still have the ridiculously low delay times that are lovely for a LAN party, and they may even be able to disconnect from bnet after the initial setup.