Linux players complain of illegitimate Diablo III bans

35 pages of forum reading later, it is observed by a forum poster (and quoted by an employee) that a total of 2 users have complained so far. Many more users report that it works fine under WINE, and a Blizzard employee reports that they did "extensive" testing as well.

So this seems to be "we were caught cheating, so we started a bunch of sensational forum threads about Linux and then submitted it to ArsTechnica".

I can't help but suspect that this is turning into a bit of a scapegoat for cheaters (especially in Blizzard titles which, due to the studio being one of the few to continue to develop using OpenGL, generally work really well in Wine).

"I wasn't cheating, I was running in Wine!"

I'm not saying that false positives can't or don't happen; I'm simply saying that I wouldn't put it past a lot of clever gamers to try a little social engineering and manipulation of the circumstances to get away with things.

I don't know if this is true or false, but I've not yet had trouble with that while playing under wine. It will be interesting to see what comes out of this in the end.

This has been confirmed as false already.

Blizzard claims that the specific users complaining were in fact cheating. http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5978861022?page=21#40...

via the /. thread: http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/07/03/141208/linux-users-...