🚀 go-pugleaf

Now, I know all the joy that most anti-cheaters feel (myself
included) when we hear of the new cheat prevention feature of the
new patch. However, when I read into the release note, I'm not
so sure if this patch is the best Blizzard could do.

Don't get me wrong, I think the fact that Blizzard took the time
to fix the cheat says a lot about its commitment to providing a
good game. BTW, I don't feel that Blizzard is necessarily
responsible for fixing the cheat. You can hardly fault car
makers for making cars that some criminals use for their escapes.

Anyway, back to the subject, my understanding of the dupe item
is that this involve the use of the town portal trick. Now, I
don't understand why Blizzard, given its intention to prevent
cheating, can't fix the town portal trick. Why does it have to
rely on this drop two identical objects and one of them is deleted?
What happen to unique items? Countless mages are carrying Dreamflange,
numerous rogues swear by their Eaglehorn or Windforce, all legiimately
acquired of course. Hell, the program has been known to generate
more than one unique items for a player who has already got the
unique item.

This reminds me of Bethesda's infamous fix of some of its bugs
by disallowing some of the actions that are causing the problem.
Luckily, Blizzard didn't choose to eliminate the use of town portal
just to avoid the dupe trick. From now on, we'll have to ask
around to see if anyone in our party has already dropped a similar
item, for fear that our hard earned trophy might vanish because
of this half-hearted attempt at preventing cheats.

While I applaud Blizzard for its attention to players' experience,
I cannot say the same thing with the way it handles the problem.
How unfortunate.

Later...