In Season 2 many used bots to gain a huge head start around 50-700 paragon by botting almost 24/7 using a bot. Farming 30-33 grift keys by the hundreds, then running those. Mixing that with normal rifts and bounties. Then cutting back to 8-14 per day after 500-700 paragon. Then doing things like farming grift key (30-33). Getting hundreds without any effort. This problem also infects nonseason as well, which might be even worse given how low blizz tends to prioritize it. Depending on what you choose the bot to do (get grift keys, T6 rifts, bounties, keywarden runs) you find a sizable stash of items after a night's worth. So while the legit players sleep (or dont in gaby's case :P) they get a huge advantage. Yet blizzard doesnt do anything. Why do i say this? Because i see people on my friend list clearly botting 10-12+ hours per day playing solo, not replying to messages in a given time period, busy mode. Not to mention what other botters have said on bot forums.. "I think I might be getting bored of botting. My Crusader gear is literally perfect. My amulet, SoJ, Unity have perfect max rolls. All crit, crit damage, elemental damage are perfect on my gear. All my Akkhan pieces are Ancient and well rolled." Another title says "Getting ready for season 3". How about some legitimacy in the leaderboards? If its even possible, like a blizzard certification that this or that player has never botted. Unlike gaby, who is online for 12+ hours. But the others who play for 11+ hours per day, they probably will never show what happens during the 10-9 hours to hide secrets. How we gonna treat the leaderboards? If its really an esport, then where's the stringent anti-cheat mechanisms as others clearly have (eg league of legends). You cant cheat there, because you are in front of millions. But behind a computer its so easy to cheat and claim you are this or that without anyone being the wiser.
Its also clear many are making comments such as why do you care about what others do etc etc, against those who expose botting are probably botters themselves trying to deflect or change the subject. But maybe its too late for blizzard to do anything this season since botters will know how to avoid detection before the next patch.
wow that topic is the most retarded ever... d3 is everything but not esport or in any way competitive. and please dont compare it to League or any other competitive games, d3 is a "hack n slay" pure grind, nothing more, nothing less. currently its a joke, no one cares about leaderboards and "progression".
and whats the matter with that some dudes have "perfect rolls on every slot" - why do you care? you are a god damn crybaby, "mommy the other boy has a better bike than mine - mimimimimi" wtf - who cares who has the better gear? get a life, its a god damn computer game.
Botting is not much of a problem in D3 as it is in other games like WoW.
Only when it starts to change how the game is designed or have any actual impact on my gameplay will I feel something needs to be done.
When the AH/Trading was available, botting really did affect how I played, people were flooding the AH with items making it harder for people like me to find items worth trying to place on the AH.
Edited name of the bot out and locked topic, this looks more like a botting ad post to me than anything regarding "botting exposed". I'll not delete this, but add the following note:
Does anyone remember the post-season banwave at the beginning of this year? When many people, even high up on the leaderboards, got banned and lost everything, including their high ranking, and legit players climbed up the rankings after the season was completed?
Do. Not. Bot. You *will* get banned eventually, no matter what any botter wants to tell you (they just want to sell their software). Besides the fact that bots and anything revolving around this topic are clearly against the ToS and therefore also against the rules of our forums, note that you eventually get yourself banned and lose everything, so there's absolutely nothing to gain from botting.
In Season 2 many used bots to gain a huge head start around 50-700 paragon by botting almost 24/7 using a bot. Farming 30-33 grift keys by the hundreds, then running those. Mixing that with normal rifts and bounties. Then cutting back to 8-14 per day after 500-700 paragon. Then doing things like farming grift key (30-33). Getting hundreds without any effort. This problem also infects nonseason as well, which might be even worse given how low blizz tends to prioritize it. Depending on what you choose the bot to do (get grift keys, T6 rifts, bounties, keywarden runs) you find a sizable stash of items after a night's worth. So while the legit players sleep (or dont in gaby's case :P) they get a huge advantage. Yet blizzard doesnt do anything. Why do i say this? Because i see people on my friend list clearly botting 10-12+ hours per day playing solo, not replying to messages in a given time period, busy mode. Not to mention what other botters have said on bot forums.. "I think I might be getting bored of botting. My Crusader gear is literally perfect. My amulet, SoJ, Unity have perfect max rolls. All crit, crit damage, elemental damage are perfect on my gear. All my Akkhan pieces are Ancient and well rolled." Another title says "Getting ready for season 3". How about some legitimacy in the leaderboards? If its even possible, like a blizzard certification that this or that player has never botted. Unlike gaby, who is online for 12+ hours. But the others who play for 11+ hours per day, they probably will never show what happens during the 10-9 hours to hide secrets. How we gonna treat the leaderboards? If its really an esport, then where's the stringent anti-cheat mechanisms as others clearly have (eg league of legends). You cant cheat there, because you are in front of millions. But behind a computer its so easy to cheat and claim you are this or that without anyone being the wiser.
Its also clear many are making comments such as why do you care about what others do etc etc, against those who expose botting are probably botters themselves trying to deflect or change the subject. But maybe its too late for blizzard to do anything this season since botters will know how to avoid detection before the next patch.
wow that topic is the most retarded ever... d3 is everything but not esport or in any way competitive. and please dont compare it to League or any other competitive games, d3 is a "hack n slay" pure grind, nothing more, nothing less. currently its a joke, no one cares about leaderboards and "progression".
and whats the matter with that some dudes have "perfect rolls on every slot" - why do you care? you are a god damn crybaby, "mommy the other boy has a better bike than mine - mimimimimi" wtf - who cares who has the better gear? get a life, its a god damn computer game.
Botting is not much of a problem in D3 as it is in other games like WoW.
Only when it starts to change how the game is designed or have any actual impact on my gameplay will I feel something needs to be done.
When the AH/Trading was available, botting really did affect how I played, people were flooding the AH with items making it harder for people like me to find items worth trying to place on the AH.
Edited name of the bot out and locked topic, this looks more like a botting ad post to me than anything regarding "botting exposed". I'll not delete this, but add the following note:
Does anyone remember the post-season banwave at the beginning of this year? When many people, even high up on the leaderboards, got banned and lost everything, including their high ranking, and legit players climbed up the rankings after the season was completed?
Do. Not. Bot. You *will* get banned eventually, no matter what any botter wants to tell you (they just want to sell their software). Besides the fact that bots and anything revolving around this topic are clearly against the ToS and therefore also against the rules of our forums, note that you eventually get yourself banned and lose everything, so there's absolutely nothing to gain from botting.