Blizzard Entertainment last week won a default judgment worth tens of millions of dollars against the operator of an unauthorized World of Warcraft server.
A U.S. District Court judge awarded Blizzard $88 million from defendant Alyson Reeves, operator of Scapegaming, according to court documents obtained by Gamasutra. Blizzard originally filed the lawsuit in October last year.
Blizzard accused Reeves of copyright infringement, unfair competition and circumvention of copyright protection systems, among other allegations. The company said Scapegaming was "well aware" that its actions were unauthorized.
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All I want is a physical disc release of remastered D2 that doesn't require online check-ins.
I've lost complete interest. Too much FOMO with seasons as it is, now it's expansions? No thanks.
what fomo? everything gets reset each season and you start new characters unless you're playing on the regular servers and then you're already maxxed anway and just need to participate in the new season stuff.
i played only during launch and i found the ones in that battlepass to be absolute dogwater, the only ones that looked somewhat cool were the paid ones in the store and i wont bother with either. The game itself was just so hollow, there were no cool builds cause every synergy was just "x or y skills does more dmg or has this extra effect" almost no experimentation needed, couldnt give a rats ass about armor if the core of the game is boring af.
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haha, man...reminds me of the time Diablo 2 went through purging of items cuz of hackers.
"It's unclear if Reeves, who didn't respond to the suit, would be able to pay the award to fulfillment"
Why would he not be able to pay that? Everyone has billions just setting in a bank somewhere, hell I could work at burger king, and make 88 million in a year.
If I were him, I would appeal the judgement, even though it will not help him in this case, as he never responded to the first hearing. Why would I appeal, for the fact that he bought the game leagaly, he never made illegal copies, and distributed them around, he made his own server, and gave other's who bought the game their choice of weather to pay to play, or play to play. He did not force anyone to pay, it was a donation, that gave prizes as awards, which is not all that uncommon.
ouch for him, that is an unreal amount.
He got greedy, he should of taken what he had and just left everything before this could of happened.
While it was a pretty douche move to charge for something you didnt create, 88 million is just...mind boggling. This guys life is over now