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Article #351902Re: *wind whistles*
From: Anon
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 12:26
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 12:26
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On 13/04/2016 5:55 PM, Lewis wrote: >> It doesn't have to cost them, people have demonstrated they are willing >> to do it without their involvement. Really, they don't need any Blizzard >> support at all :-). > > No. Allowing third parties to run servers would endanger every Blizzard > Trademark and could also jeopardize their copyrights. > >> All they need to do is establish some sort of mechanism so to play on >> the 'Authorised but UNSUPPORTED BY BLIZZARD server' >> caps part of name :-) > > It is not that simple, at all. > >> you need a Warcraft account that is active, or maybe has been active in >> the last 3 months. Money for stuff all effort, a tiny bit of handshake. > > So this third party has to be able to authenticate against battle.net. > > Oh, and you have to patch WoW 1.x to work with Battle.net, too. Not that it will happen but anything with a dispatcher is usually pretty easy to add protocols. Only the will to do it is hard, and blizz wills it NOT. e.g. You log onto battlenet, you pay battlenet, blizz knows you are paid up for wow and once a month or three you ask battlenet to push a verification to the non blizz server with your account name(s). Doesn't even have to be instant. Infrequent one way token, no offsite battlenet info needed. Blizz is the gatekeeper on who can play, knows who is playing and who is no longer entitled to. It can be extended to as much or little control as blizzard wants, but the only control they want is total shutdown. So it won't happen no matter how many alternatives are presented.
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