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Comment Re:turn the tables (Score 1) 186

Given that all these cookies likely do is tell the server you are acessing "I'm unique user #138756918", and are REALLY good at remembering that number, I doubt there's much you can do to mess with their servers. All the data about what it means to be unique user #138756918 is kept as far away from you as possible.

Comment Re:not really single-player (Score 1) 385

No... this has nothing to do with privacy. People want the achievements added to their profiles, and are cheating to add them. Why this matters to anyone, I don't know, as the most "useful" items you get from StarCraft 2 achievements are avatar icons and logos which can be placed on your units, logos which are so small I'd swear you'd never see them in a serious game. And SC2 has cheats built in, that disable achievements, so if someone just wants to see the story, they can easily do that. The only reason to cheat with hacks is to either get achievements that one is not good enough to earn legitimately, or to cheat in multiplayer.

Microsoft has had similar problems with their achievement system being cheated as well. Their answer has been deleting all achievements from the people found to be cheating in this way. Banning someone from the game does seem a little harsh in this situation.

Comment Re:Battle.net (Score 1) 77

Because Blizzard asks their playerbase to forward these e-mails for verification, and to help them locate the bogus sites and get them shut down. I'm getting these myself (although my B.net account is now on a different e-mail address), and they all have different bogus websites. While they know there's a problem, they still need to know where the new problems are.

Comment Re:wow (Score 1) 199

Well, apart from multiplayer, you do get weekly sales (although they only occasionally intersect with your interests), and demo access one week earlier than non-gold users. And there was 1 vs 100 while that was around which was quite fun (but disappointing that it's not being renewed) Not saying it's an amazing deal or anything, but there is a bit more than the multiplayer.

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