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Blizzard may ban you for using simple mods in Diablo 4 (www.dsogaming.com)
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Blizzard has announced that it will ban everyone that uses game-modifying software in Diablo 4, including simple mods.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

To give more context, last week, the team behind TurboHUD released a version of this overlay tool/mod for Diablo 4. TurboHUD helps keeping track of your progression, your performance, and allows you to add quality-of-life improvements to the user interface. This mod was also available for Diablo 3, and a lot of gamers were using it.

A UX and progress tracker is getting people banned. How fragile is Blizzard? They're probably afraid this will somehow give people an unfair advantage for those leaderboards that won't exist for at least 6 more months.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

To be "fair", given that for better or worse it's an Always Online game, it's easier to just say "NO MODS ALLOWED, END OF STORY" than to deal with the hassle of strictly defining what is and isn't kosher and dealing with the inevitable rules lawyering from people trying to argue how THEIR MOD is special and doesn't break the rules.

But yeah, f*ck ActiBliz

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