The main problem is that Blizzard has made no concerted effort to punish cheaters. Replies to this editorial and more discussion of the issue can be seen here, along with an update in late February, now that Blizzard is actually, at last, punishing some hackers. All measures Flux advocated in the editorial. Blizzard did eventually get more of a handle on stopping the hacks, they did start banning accounts and deleted hacked items, and their regular ladder resets provided an incentive to players to start over again with new characters in a new, un-cheated economy. In retrospect, the situation was less dire than it seemed at the time. ![]() It is quoted below, and followed by a selection of the reader comments it generated, all taken from the warnings archives. In early 2002, after building the warnings section on and receiving literally dozens of emails a day from people who had been ripped off in one hack or scam or another, Flux eventually grew angry enough at the constant hacking, and Blizzard's apparent indifference to it, to write a heated editorial on the issue.
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