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Old 07-03-2012, 07:53 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Sonja Aeghin View Post
But how is using Wine alone cheating? Linux users have to use Wine in the absence of an official Linux client. While it's technically correct that Wine isn't approved 3rd party software, there is still no excuse for banning players using Wine to play D3 while there have been no problems whatsoever with WoW and Starcraft II.

It's a dick move.
WoW and Starcraft II don't have real money auction houses do they?

If I had to guess, folks are setting up auction-house-bots on linux and spamming the Diablo servers, or some other 'unintended' use of their product/service.
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