You’re the second person to make this stupid assumption. I have never played overwatch, haven’t played a multiplayer shooter since Quake (at which I sucked) but ask a question about the legal basis for the suit and I must be a customer or a cheat manufacturer. As I said to someone else making the same accusation, do…

Apt username, insightful reply.

But isn’t it Blizzards fault to some extent for creating a system that can be cheated, and failing to police that? Imagine a go-kart track and some people who came in used a hat that made them faster than everyone without it. Should the hat manufacturer be civilly liable for the track owner’s failure to ban hats and…

The stars next to my comments suggest otherwise. But it’s great that rather than engage in the conversation, this is the point you’ve chosen to make.

I don’t think douchebaggery should be illegal. There are lots of shitty acts that need to be governed by social norms and not laws, from cutting into a parking space that someone else was obviously waiting for to cheating in online multiplayer.

You must be intensely boring if you only talk about things that are tangibly relevant to your life at all times.

But you already bought the game. I’m sorry cheaters ruined your experience, I imaging that must suck, especially after shelling out $60. But from a legal standpoint, in the scenario you describe, the cheaters haven’t cost Blizzard any money from you (though that somewhat depends on what percentage of users buy…

Keep going, you’re about three comments away from producing some really revolutionary avant garde poetry.

Again, my questions are about the legal case because it’s an interesting legal question to me. This is a comments section, if you can’t handle people discussing things they find interesting you should probably find another way to spend your time.

Friendly reminder: Don’t go ballistic based on assumptions you make about others that are completely off-base. I don’t play Overwatch at all, don’t play multiplayer (a bit of Rocket League at which I SUUUUUUUCK).

That’s an offer I can’t refuse. Address and time please.

I don’t play Overwatch, my questions were about the legal basis for the suit, not justifying the use of cheating, but whether building a cheat is illegal and the basis for a civil suit. My questions about the lawsuit aren’t some effort to justify my cheating, but that does seem to be the assumption by those who have…

I don’t know what that means.

Calm down man, why are you so mad about someone asking a question?

Well, you’ve already bought the game, so no revenue lost there, though upthread someone mentioned the microtransactions which I had forgotten about, so yes, that is a damage that though difficult to quantify, does exist.

But the cheat makers aren’t playing the game, so they aren’t (necessarily) violating the EULA. Every user who cheats is, but that is a different matter. I’d also suspect (without looking at the Overwatch EULA) that it does not authorize Blizzard infinite damages for anyone violating it, or if it does, that is a wholly…

Hard to know, much like the arguments about whether piracy harms or helps game sales. But it certainly isn’t as clear cut as the angry anti-piracy warriors here might want you to believe.

And we can all see you using curse words apparently for the first time in this thread. I think your mom has warmed up your bagel bites, best get them before they cool off.

There’s no question it’s morally suspect but legally is a completely different issue. Yes, people who cheat in multiplayer are scumbags, and those who boast about their resulting success are pathetic. But that’s a completely different argument than Blizzard is making, and not grounds for damages.

What the fuck is wrong with you?