It's their game (Score 2, Insightful)

The thing is, I don't really feel Blizzard is wrong in not wanting other people to produce alternatives to its own servers. This isn't based on any understanding of the law (of which I have very little), but rather on what I feel is morally right. I feel Blizzard deserves to control how the game plays, offline or online. Incredible amounts of creativity, thinking, time, work and money went into making Diablo II (or any other Blizzard game), and I just don't see why anyone else should have the freedom to change how their games play. Bought Diablo II and became disappointed with the inflexibilty or slugishness of their servers? Fine, vow to never buy another Blizzard game again and set to create your own opensource game, client, protocol and server included.

Don't try to take control from Blizzard by letting people use their client with your server. Blizzard sees it necessary for keeping their business to have that control exclusive to them, and you may not like it, or agree with it, but you need to respect it. Especially if you decide to play their games. This isn't an operating system we're talking about. Where an operating system is just a middleman, something to build upon, there is (usually) nothing more to a game than itself. You take it as it is, or not at all. Some game developers choose to give the user further liberties through game editors and programming interfaces, and that's great, but those liberties should be given, not taken by force.

I'm sure this is going to be a very unpopular opinion with many of you, all I'm asking for is if you disagree with me, explain why instead of flaming, so that I can take your opinion seriously.

Thanks, Nir