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A community manager from Blizzard's response: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5978861022?page=21#402 http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5978861022?pa

A community manager from Blizzard's response: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5978861022?page=21#402 http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5978861022?page=21#40... "Playing the game on Linux, although not officially supported, will not get you banned – cheating will."

dhechols 14y ago
Yep. This has happened before. This is just more cheaters WINE-ing. ;)
reitzensteinm 14y ago
Which sounds perfectly reasonable, but it's not necessarily the truth. As another commenter posted here, this has happened before with WoW users [1]. They claimed that they tried and failed to replicate the failure, but anyone who's done any kind of software development knows this is far from conclusive proof. A post mortem on the logs of the banned accounts is absolutely necessary. If they're not willing to do that, they should at least refund the accounts. [1] http://www.linuxlookup.com/2006/nov/22/blizzard_unbans_linux_world_of_warcraft_players http://www.linuxlookup.com/2006/nov/22/blizzard_unbans_linux...
- brainfed 14y ago
  They're claiming it's not the same thing. http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5978861022?page=23 http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5978861022?page=23 Seems like they're confident that the people involved were cheating. Also, other WINE users are posting saying they've had no issues. The story's being spread around now, so I guess we'll see one way or another because other users with the issue will either show up, or they won't.
  - makomk 14y ago
    There are multiple versions of Wine out there, and the exact results potentially depend on the user's Linux distro, the exact versions of packages installed, the compiler version it's built with, ... One of the problems Wine developers have is that DRM is often very fragile and sensitive to software changes that are outside their control.

dhechols 14y ago

Yep. This has happened before. This is just more cheaters WINE-ing. ;)

reitzensteinm 14y ago

Which sounds perfectly reasonable, but it's not necessarily the truth. As another commenter posted here, this has happened before with WoW users [1]. They claimed that they tried and failed to replicate the failure, but anyone who's done any kind of software development knows this is far from conclusive proof. A post mortem on the logs of the banned accounts is absolutely necessary. If they're not willing to do that, they should at least refund the accounts. [1] http://www.linuxlookup.com/2006/nov/22/blizzard_unbans_linux_world_of_warcraft_players http://www.linuxlookup.com/2006/nov/22/blizzard_unbans_linux...

brainfed 14y ago
They're claiming it's not the same thing. http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5978861022?page=23 http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5978861022?page=23 Seems like they're confident that the people involved were cheating. Also, other WINE users are posting saying they've had no issues. The story's being spread around now, so I guess we'll see one way or another because other users with the issue will either show up, or they won't.
- makomk 14y ago
  There are multiple versions of Wine out there, and the exact results potentially depend on the user's Linux distro, the exact versions of packages installed, the compiler version it's built with, ... One of the problems Wine developers have is that DRM is often very fragile and sensitive to software changes that are outside their control.