Gamespy titlefight scandal: Diablo II Cheated!

[Jaguar]

I'm actually serious about this. I don't own Starcraft, so I'm not some bitter starcraft "fanboy" or anything like that.

In the first day of the match, Starcraft was beating Diablo II quite solidly. By the time most people on the East Coast went to sleep, it was ahead by about 1500 votes. But somehow, during the night, Diablo pulled ahead.

Here's why: a guy at a site called blizzhackers.com wrote a bot that could vote over and over again. The original thread id was http://www.blizzhackers.com/phpBB2/v...c.php?t=139332

However, it has been deleted by now. But a lot of people saved screenshots of the thread. At this link, you can see one of the many saved screenshots:

http://www.teamareola.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=3879

Also, although the thread has been deleted, there's a wealth of references to the voting bot all over the forums.

http://www.blizzhackers.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=139242

http://www.blizzhackers.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=139242&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

Note that it is the same poster who is in the screenshot of the deleted thread.

And here is a copy of the program floating around

http://scbunker.brinkster.net/d2h/

Lastly, here is the official titlefight forum at the point when theoretically, the bot started being used. http://www.forumplanet.com/titlefigh...d=1320878&p=12



Firstly, I am a little annoyed. I dislike Diablo as a game, but I don't really care too much about Starcraft losing.

Secondly, it's really sad that they were this low.

Thirdly, it's kind of funny.

[Jamski]

I think its a nice use of technology to abuse a broken voting system.

And Diablo 2 is an "ok" game. Its not the greatest plot or anything, but hack'n'slash will always have its place.

Starcraft? Just another Dune2 clone isn't it?

-Jam

[Jaguar]

That's an odd way of thinking about it. Blizzard is basically the king of RTS, and Starcraft is one of theirs. Starcraft was at least as genre-defining as Dune2.

[Jamski]

Is there really any difference between the Westwood RTS games and the Blizzard RTS games? They're both based on building structures to produce troops while harvesting stuff, are they not? Just the models, maps and statistics of the thingies change.

-Jam

[Jaguar]

Basically. But Starcraft and Warcraft had most w00tacular SP campaigns.

[Traianvs]

Warcraft 1&2 were great, but Warcraft3 was total bollox. The SP campaign was first of all dead easy, even on hardest level; secondly the story may have been attractive, but the fact that you had to wait until the end of each campaign in order to have access to every monster was kinda stupid. I've never even used most troops. Playing the orcs I simply quickbuild some raiders and trolls with spears to pick out airborne troops and bam I win. What a challenge.

Good thing is the races are totally different from eachother, but Orcs still kick everyone's ass
Oh yeah: the graphics suck ass too!

PS: What's the point anyway. some people voting which is the better game. Is it going to change your life, is this important for these games?

[pg]

d2 has so many hacks in real life it seems fitting... then again the d2 cheat bot was probably just better than the starcraft one.

[War4ever]

i for one haven't found many of the rts games to be all that diferent from each other.

rts was the rage for awhile, but fps games are easily the hottest thing on the market now...

but as each genre spews out hundreads (yes pun intended) of clones, the advancement in quality suffers.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Jamski
Is there really any difference between the Westwood RTS games and the Blizzard RTS games?

Starcraft has alot more atmosphere and, well, 'fun' then any other RTS I've played. Jaguar is right about the single player campaigns being great, too.


And yeah, Warcraft 3 is crap.

[Zero]

starcraft is a good game.
diablo isnt even a game. its gay.

(yeah, i wasted 1billion hours on a game that Im cussing right now... where can i get my hours refunded? )

i find it funy when people judge multiplayer games based on single player experience. Single player = appetizers in MP games...

[Illuminatus]

starcraft=good experience

[alva]

Gamespy titlefight scandal: Diablo II Cheated!

* sigh *


/me wonders people tried to vote more then once though??.......I did

[Nubclear]

I was one of those simcity players on Starcraft.

[Zero]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
I was one of those simcity players on Starcraft.

simcity? u mean like building and teching stuff?

u do realize that the whole point is to destroy people who are building things who are also trying to destroy right?

[Nubclear]

Yes.
So what I would do is select the Protoss, build up a small army and use a Dark Archon to capture the other two buildiers, then bring them back and build my base even further
It was so fun.