With D4 being light years away Im not sure that would be their motive. What I do know, they cannot scan your machine while playing, its an invasion of privacy and illegal, they can only look at D3, and if current popular bots dont inject or modify anything then they cannot detect them, which leaves them to methods such as detecting overall playtime in a given season and say playing for 24 hours straight. Even judging playtime is a slippery slope, back in the day Ive been known to go on 24 hour benders and logging 30 or more hours in any given weekend.
That leaves them down to watching individual suspected botters play with a live person and that person being 100% sure that the player being watched is a bot.
How much time and resources they are willing to spend cleaning up a dying game in maintenance mode is anybody's guess, but if they do suspend ALL botters and HUD users the landscape is going to be more barren than it is now. With shareholders to answer to, wiping out a large portion of your player base in a game that doesnt create revenue might not be the smartest move to make financially, its all about the $$$, and players = $$$
There are financial ramifications to banning all those accounts, and surely thats effecting their ultimate decision as they decide what to do (if they even can definitely detect bots).
Ill add as a casual player botting doesnt really bother me, there is no economy to ruin, and the one time I did play hard and made and finished the season on the leader boards it didnt bother me that I could have been higher if it werent for bots, it kind of impressed me a little that I made it despite the bots.
This game is garbage for a lot of reasons, but bots arent one of them, and eliminating all those accounts wont save it or make it better, just shuffle the leaderboards. If you truly care about making the boards then bots are a big deal to you, but your personal best wont change, and thats pretty much all I try to beat whether its on the boards or not
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With D4 being light years away Im not sure that would be their motive. What I do know, they cannot scan your machine while playing, its an invasion of privacy and illegal, they can only look at D3, and if current popular bots dont inject or modify anything then they cannot detect them, which leaves them to methods such as detecting overall playtime in a given season and say playing for 24 hours straight. Even judging playtime is a slippery slope, back in the day Ive been known to go on 24 hour benders and logging 30 or more hours in any given weekend.
That leaves them down to watching individual suspected botters play with a live person and that person being 100% sure that the player being watched is a bot.
How much time and resources they are willing to spend cleaning up a dying game in maintenance mode is anybody's guess, but if they do suspend ALL botters and HUD users the landscape is going to be more barren than it is now. With shareholders to answer to, wiping out a large portion of your player base in a game that doesnt create revenue might not be the smartest move to make financially, its all about the $$$, and players = $$$
There are financial ramifications to banning all those accounts, and surely thats effecting their ultimate decision as they decide what to do (if they even can definitely detect bots).
Ill add as a casual player botting doesnt really bother me, there is no economy to ruin, and the one time I did play hard and made and finished the season on the leader boards it didnt bother me that I could have been higher if it werent for bots, it kind of impressed me a little that I made it despite the bots.
This game is garbage for a lot of reasons, but bots arent one of them, and eliminating all those accounts wont save it or make it better, just shuffle the leaderboards. If you truly care about making the boards then bots are a big deal to you, but your personal best wont change, and thats pretty much all I try to beat whether its on the boards or not