aeluin

Or they could just give up on the stupid and unsuccessful attempts to prevent cheating on the client side, given that their serverside efforts have had unprecedented success in comparison with the vast majority of MMORPGs

if they re-enabled the basic Windows functions (minimize, ctrl-alt-del, etc) while only allowing 1 copy of EQ to run on the computer at once, and made an option to play without patching (very helpful for those of us whose crashes are always to desktop) most people would have no reason to run EQW. But those who still chose to run EQW so they could run 2 copies of EQ or otherwise exploit the program could be disciplined without hurting the harmless folks who just want to talk on AIM or check e-mail without crashing the game.

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