I disagree for 2 reasons:
- The last ban was years ago now, and they haven’t done anything to combat it, leaving even the least experienced people the ability to bot and do it successfully for an extended period of time.
- Because it has been years since the last ban, bots have evolved into much more sophisticated clients with the ability to run hundreds, or even thousands, at once. What used to be 5-10 bots on the more experienced people is now hundreds. This results in much more load than they built the game servers for.
I’d like to touch on the fact that I don’t solely blame the botting for this issue, but it definitely has more of an impact than what you think it does. I personally believe it has something to do with an issue that was introduced in recent patches (1.14d likely the culprit), and exacerbated by the fact that people run exponentially more bots than they used to.
Is the us east down it says checking version forever then says battle net failed to respond
East has been wonky for the last hour or so that I know of. Right now, I’m able to log in and join a game but getting d/c within 5-10 minutes. Funny thing is, I’m seeing games in the games list that have been running for 14+ hours. Looks like not everyone is getting d/c. These are games on East non-ladder and are basically “mule parking” or “drop your junk” games in normal mode. Haven’t tried any nm or hell mode because of the instability.
The team put in some work toward game services so things should be improving a bit here. We’re seeing overall improvements, but we’re continuing to monitor the situation and your reports.
For those stuck on the login screen, please contact customer support to fix up the accounts.
Hey, my guilds still reporting “disconnected from bnet” errors while trying to connect to useast.
might need to look further into this.
Man these ques are ridiculous! It takes longer to make a game than it does to clear it, even when doing areas I wouldn’t normally do. Ques in US East are still 2.5-3k
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Any chance we can get another server reset? That at least fixed the issues for a few days.
Sorry to hear that man, wow. Thats unreal
Come on! +3000 queue lines again, can you fix this ?
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@Sklinkorious @Skelgarer @Caterpepi @Drakuloth @Kershew @Uldrision @Zayssie @Zenlaka @Zuvykree
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Do we have any update on the issue?
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Can you please update us? This is gone for almost 2 days again. Its almost unplayable
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Ya same here 2 days with 3k queue! take 5 min to make game!
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It is my supposition that the wait times are intentional, as an anit-botting measure. Many of the bots, especially ones that are not modified from their default settings will only wait for a game creation for a specified amount of time (like 60 seconds). At that time, the bot cancels the game creation and tries again. If I were Blizzard, and were looking for a quick and dirty method of reducing botting activity, I would find a threshold of the highest wait time possible to put bots in an endless loop of try to create/re-create games and not too long that legitimate players are unwilling to wait in order to play. With the amount of data they have access to, there are much more sophisticated ways to implement a Warden to stave off botting activity. Such as it is, they have not successfully removed bots, though I am convinced they probably could. So I am stuck between thinking they might be playing with anti bot measures but also thinking if they really wanted to, they would have banned them already. After all, much of their CD Key revenue comes from those who bot and purchase multiple CD Keys. I would bet that most legit players are only using a single CD key.
In either case, the wait times should go away, and Blizzard should find a better way of removing bots from the game. I refuse to believe that a 20 year old game is really bogging down their servers. I have an old Pentium III I could donate if they need to upgrade their D2 Server Tech.
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If this was an antibot measure it would be the worst kind, making people wait 5-10 minutes just to play the game. I don’t think it is hard for botters to change 1 number in a configuration. I think most legit players do use just 1 cd key, I bought two to mule items without having to worry of the game disapearing (lag or w/e), with sandboxie. Also helps when the cd key is stuck in use by yourself. But honestly no one should have to buy the game twice just to play it.
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It would be nice if blizzard would comment and let us know if they are going to restart their servers or not. Or if they are even aware of the issue. Last blizzard post was 6 days ago.
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Losing any faith I had in these people. I notice there was no que… in the middle of the next game I get dropped and now can’t play because “cd key in use”. No wonder there were no ques probably just a ton of unhappy people like myself.
Its not anti botting though, bots can be programmed around que times, they can be programed to have min game times to avoid temp bans…Everything Blizz does is wrong.
Its only affecting legit players and turning them to bots, who has time to wait now both in a game 10 mins, then 4-5 just to create a new one…
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Queues were gone for about an hour today, now they are raising, each time I make a new MF or Trade game, my queue goes up by 50. I’ve join three games in the last 30 mins, and im at a 300 wait in line queue.
I’m not trying to be a dick, im really not. I’m just confused as, this thread is 7 days old, and there still has been no fix, just a server restart, then queues return with in an hour. Us legit players, are the only ones suffering…