I have never played a public game and only have played with people I knew.
I did report account spammers looking for friendships when the auction houses were active to sell gold. At one point I think I was doing that about 10 times a day.
Also I do not play this game that much since for the most part my 10+ years of playing Diablo 2 has left me for the most part Diablod out.
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I have never played a public game and only have played with people I knew.
I did report account spammers looking for friendships when the auction houses were active to sell gold. At one point I think I was doing that about 10 times a day.
Also I do not play this game that much since for the most part my 10+ years of playing Diablo 2 has left me for the most part Diablod out.
lol! I can't believe I forgot about that. logging on in the morning to have 5 friend requests waiting from user sdeikju, sdaiudfh, sdfuydbfta, dfhgysg, and fhfueyt. ahahaha god that was the pits.
Sorry to bring that back since those days it was quite annoying and it felt like it did no good to report them, since they are back the very next time you logged back in.
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Why would I report them? They do not bother me or affect my game playing. I play in public games daily. I have never seen a bot. I communicate with players on a consistent basis, and as far as I know bots cannot communicate. I don't know where bots are or if they even exist. I really do not see the point to the whole concept. You play because it is fun. Then you make a bot and the bot has fun. Hmmmmm..........
I enjoy the game, I have never seen a bot or even know what one looks like. If people do not bother me or my game play, why report anyone????
Yes, i did to that e-mail adress and after a day the botter was temp banned and his character roll backed a month or so, the time he started botting.
The in-game report feature is useless.
Why did i do that? Because it rubs me the wrong way seeing players farming infinite amount of keys, paragon and cube materials when they are not even at home while i do through those chores to make my character better to tackle down Greater Rifts.
That form is not for botters. If you report botters nothing will change. Blizzard still haven't solution for botters and can't ban them. I expect eventualy in future expansion Blizzard make some changes and start doing something about it.
It absolutely is for reporting botters, cheaters, hacks, explots etc.
You can do a quick search on it but it's the main report hub for cheating for all of their products (it's not just for WoW, or just Hearthstone etc). Community managers constantly tell people to use it.
This "bots do not affect me" thing has to stop.... Only an ***** (or a botter, well it is the same ) cannot understand that bots affecting EVERYONE in the game...
That's not what the poll is for. It's for the comparison of complaints vs reports from players. I was actually expecting the majority to say that they had reported it to the hacks team but so far it's not looking that way.
As some one that isn't using a bot you aren't going to be able to keep up on the leaderboards because RNG is RNG and the only way to work through that is to increase the opportunities you have at that RNG. So if people are botting privately (G/Rifts) it only affects the leaderboards and if they are botting privately, you'll never find them.
The other aspect is when a botter moves to a public forum and just leaves their game open to farm bounties, keys or regular Rifts. You can generally spot these pretty easily because the root game has a portal to the vault open. When a botter does this, they are now affecting the general public for their own gain, but at the same time they aren't hindering anyone. If you hop into a bounty run with a bot, they are going to speed through that run and make things easier for you as you are there to achieve the same goal: the most caches/rifts/etc in the shortest time. In this instance, generally speaking, your encounter with the bot is nothing but favorable so what is the reason you would have to speak out against the bot? Once you do so, you increase the chance to get an account banned and make your time playing the game worse because your public objectives now take longer to complete.
That's a very high level overview of the situation but now that bots can't rule an economy and make the game miserable for the majority of players, the only thing they can do to turn a monetary profit is to power-level and gear farm for people which are private activities and you'll never know, the public face of bots is fairly favorable.
Lol if your Bot plays better then you yourself....then you are just plain bad....Bots are actually pretty stupid....I've had friends in the past Bot and I've watched them....they are far from OP.....Not sure what your talking about.
If well programed like the ones I saw, they can push a char to 100% effectivity. By this I mean using the right skills in the right moments for max dmg (Combos), keep max stacks up on skills/gems (Taeguk gem), skip mobs when is not worth killing them, dodge things like explosions, etc... and the list keeps going on and on.
A human can do that, sure... but not with 100% accuracy or 24/7. You will always fail or click the wrong skill sometime.
That's why I say Bots are OP.
Maybe a way for Blizz to find these cancer people, was to check accounts that are online and playing for more than 24h straight... I'm just saying...
If well programed like the ones I saw, they can push a char to 100% effectivity. By this I mean using the right skills in the right moments for max dmg (Combos), keep max stacks up on skills/gems (Taeguk gem), skip mobs when is not worth killing them, dodge things like explosions, etc... and the list keeps going on and on.
A human can do that, sure... but not with 100% accuracy or 24/7. You will always fail or click the wrong skill sometime.
That's why I say Bots are OP.
Maybe a way for Blizz to find these cancer people, was to check accounts that are online and playing for more than 24h straight... I'm just saying...
The more and more I hear about it I'm starting to be in favor of it. It would at least work for seasonal botting and they can apply it to normal as well. They would have to make a monitor of some sort to reset on each new era that the play time can not be more than minus 10 hours of the season total after x days or something along those lines and then have it trigger an internal e-mail or ticket of some sort to prompt an investigation.
The only problem I can foresee is the details. How long is too long for a single person to play? What's the right choice for that? Does internal tooling allow for a hook into player stats to trigger an investigation notice? SO much stuff to think about when creating a tool like that with a lot of gray area.
And then comes the even bigger problem. If they ever implemented something like this they'd never be able to tell their customers about it. Because among the honest and do-good customer base is the people that still want to bot. Once you tell cheaters how a system works it gives them insight on how to reverse engineer it.
So the decision:
tell the customers to quell the outrage and overall please the customers that something was done about it at the cost of the system becoming cracked and having to constantly revamp it until you run out of options.
or
Don't tell the customers to allow the system to work efficiently as possible for as long as possible slowing the cracker creep at the cost of leaving customers outrageed for the better sake of the entire game eventually resulting in a lower player base.
There's a massive and increasing incentive in Diablo to bot. Back in season 1 I peaked at high 300s on the U.S. Wizard leader board with a 38 grift. This was using old firebird with an average furnace, and c300 para levels.
Getting the gear for that build took a time investment but one I could afford playing pretty casually.
Since then Diablo has introduced ancient items, Kanai cube (especially calds despair), ramas gift and massive XP inflation. All features weigh directly equate time spent with character power.
Going back to season 1, everyone more or less had access to the same gear, the differentiator on the leader boards was skill and luck. Now time is equally as important.
I'd like to see design choices in the game which make botting relatively less attractive, but track record over the life of ROS suggests this is unlikely. In the meantime, I'll continue to bot so that I can enjoy everything the game has to offer in the limited time I have available.
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Just a simple poll made out of curiosity to see how many people have used the hacks report form before to report a botter.
http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/submit/hacks.html
Feel free to comment. Please keep it constructive though and let's stay away from demeaning, belittling or namecalling.
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I have never played a public game and only have played with people I knew.
I did report account spammers looking for friendships when the auction houses were active to sell gold. At one point I think I was doing that about 10 times a day.
Also I do not play this game that much since for the most part my 10+ years of playing Diablo 2 has left me for the most part Diablod out.
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Sorry to bring that back since those days it was quite annoying and it felt like it did no good to report them, since they are back the very next time you logged back in.
Why would I report them? They do not bother me or affect my game playing. I play in public games daily. I have never seen a bot. I communicate with players on a consistent basis, and as far as I know bots cannot communicate. I don't know where bots are or if they even exist. I really do not see the point to the whole concept. You play because it is fun. Then you make a bot and the bot has fun. Hmmmmm..........
I enjoy the game, I have never seen a bot or even know what one looks like. If people do not bother me or my game play, why report anyone????
Back in the days of the RMAH I would get sick of the spam bots and report them. Filled up my block list pretty quick.
Otherwise, no.
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Blizzard can detect and ban cheaters for whatever they choose to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warden_(software)
No national privacy laws are concerned about your battle.net account or the EULA you accepted.
Yes, i did to that e-mail adress and after a day the botter was temp banned and his character roll backed a month or so, the time he started botting.
The in-game report feature is useless.
Why did i do that? Because it rubs me the wrong way seeing players farming infinite amount of keys, paragon and cube materials when they are not even at home while i do through those chores to make my character better to tackle down Greater Rifts.
It absolutely is for reporting botters, cheaters, hacks, explots etc.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/16201250165#12
You can do a quick search on it but it's the main report hub for cheating for all of their products (it's not just for WoW, or just Hearthstone etc). Community managers constantly tell people to use it.
That's not what the poll is for. It's for the comparison of complaints vs reports from players. I was actually expecting the majority to say that they had reported it to the hacks team but so far it's not looking that way.
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The issue is kind of two fold.
As some one that isn't using a bot you aren't going to be able to keep up on the leaderboards because RNG is RNG and the only way to work through that is to increase the opportunities you have at that RNG. So if people are botting privately (G/Rifts) it only affects the leaderboards and if they are botting privately, you'll never find them.
The other aspect is when a botter moves to a public forum and just leaves their game open to farm bounties, keys or regular Rifts. You can generally spot these pretty easily because the root game has a portal to the vault open. When a botter does this, they are now affecting the general public for their own gain, but at the same time they aren't hindering anyone. If you hop into a bounty run with a bot, they are going to speed through that run and make things easier for you as you are there to achieve the same goal: the most caches/rifts/etc in the shortest time. In this instance, generally speaking, your encounter with the bot is nothing but favorable so what is the reason you would have to speak out against the bot? Once you do so, you increase the chance to get an account banned and make your time playing the game worse because your public objectives now take longer to complete.
That's a very high level overview of the situation but now that bots can't rule an economy and make the game miserable for the majority of players, the only thing they can do to turn a monetary profit is to power-level and gear farm for people which are private activities and you'll never know, the public face of bots is fairly favorable.
The problem is that bots don't need a party to farm TX or even GR60+.
They do it solo so nobody notices it and report them to blizz.
Bots play 10 times better than any human and are frking OP!
Lol if your Bot plays better then you yourself....then you are just plain bad....Bots are actually pretty stupid....I've had friends in the past Bot and I've watched them....they are far from OP.....Not sure what your talking about.
Well... guess we didn't saw the same Bots.
If well programed like the ones I saw, they can push a char to 100% effectivity. By this I mean using the right skills in the right moments for max dmg (Combos), keep max stacks up on skills/gems (Taeguk gem), skip mobs when is not worth killing them, dodge things like explosions, etc... and the list keeps going on and on.
A human can do that, sure... but not with 100% accuracy or 24/7. You will always fail or click the wrong skill sometime.
That's why I say Bots are OP.
Maybe a way for Blizz to find these cancer people, was to check accounts that are online and playing for more than 24h straight... I'm just saying...
The more and more I hear about it I'm starting to be in favor of it. It would at least work for seasonal botting and they can apply it to normal as well. They would have to make a monitor of some sort to reset on each new era that the play time can not be more than minus 10 hours of the season total after x days or something along those lines and then have it trigger an internal e-mail or ticket of some sort to prompt an investigation.
The only problem I can foresee is the details. How long is too long for a single person to play? What's the right choice for that? Does internal tooling allow for a hook into player stats to trigger an investigation notice? SO much stuff to think about when creating a tool like that with a lot of gray area.
And then comes the even bigger problem. If they ever implemented something like this they'd never be able to tell their customers about it. Because among the honest and do-good customer base is the people that still want to bot. Once you tell cheaters how a system works it gives them insight on how to reverse engineer it.
So the decision:
tell the customers to quell the outrage and overall please the customers that something was done about it at the cost of the system becoming cracked and having to constantly revamp it until you run out of options.
or
Don't tell the customers to allow the system to work efficiently as possible for as long as possible slowing the cracker creep at the cost of leaving customers outrageed for the better sake of the entire game eventually resulting in a lower player base.
Tough decision.
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nop in diablo. dont care about cheating in single player game
I bot. I started in 2.3 and continued in 2.4.
There's a massive and increasing incentive in Diablo to bot. Back in season 1 I peaked at high 300s on the U.S. Wizard leader board with a 38 grift. This was using old firebird with an average furnace, and c300 para levels.
Getting the gear for that build took a time investment but one I could afford playing pretty casually.
Since then Diablo has introduced ancient items, Kanai cube (especially calds despair), ramas gift and massive XP inflation. All features weigh directly equate time spent with character power.
Going back to season 1, everyone more or less had access to the same gear, the differentiator on the leader boards was skill and luck. Now time is equally as important.
I'd like to see design choices in the game which make botting relatively less attractive, but track record over the life of ROS suggests this is unlikely. In the meantime, I'll continue to bot so that I can enjoy everything the game has to offer in the limited time I have available.