z is regurgetating the stuff i told him years ago , a lot has changed since then
I don't recall anyone telling me this...it is simply a common sense way of understanding a problem.
Most people over think issues rather than break the task down to the least amount of steps/work.
As for things changing...a better word would be repackaged.
Any way you want to package it up the game must know your ID or IP to ban you...so the steps involved will always remain very few.
An example of "least amount of steps" was how easy it was to set up a "pirate server" when hosting a game that used GameSpy by changing one address...now
anyone even with the same "key" could join.
You could also keep people with legit Keys from playing online by letting them join a "poisoned" server that simply never reported back to GameSpy they had disconnected from said server... thus resulting in GS saying "key is already in use".
Now that GameSpy is "dead" I have no problem publicly saying these things...but yes things are just that easy,and easy is the way you want to think of "hard things".
It would be in an interested persons best interests to d/l the many free tools and tutorials of how to use them and learn how they work.
After the early 1980's I just mostly drink beer and smoke Pot and enjoy being a lazy old man...as well as I can manage.