i believe if caught botting a no tolerance policy should be implemented
complete 90 day ban and wipe their characters from existence .
second offense would be a total ban of that d2r license no more chances.
if this seems to difficult disable there shared stash and make it where monsters can only drop id scrolls or tp scrolls
If you got got cought once. It should be ban then and ther. no second chance
I’d say after the 90 days and on the second chance, make any items they pick up account bound for life, no ability to trade, any items dropped by other players can’t be picked up. And that’s me being nice. Bwahahahalol
If Blizzard and other gaming companies really wanted to crack down on cheaters, I think they’d need to swap notes with keyboard and mice manufacturers to come up with some unique and encrypted pairing of the peripheral hardware with the game, and of course make a wide range of available pricing options for them. Micro System on a Chips are a dime a dozen. Most gaming mice and keyboards already have one anyway.
i have a better idea… ban their entire blizzard account not just d2:R.
wont affect the botting companies who run only d2:R.
but it would certainly make it so any “real” players would never even consider it
and yes if u are wondering… i use d2 jsp as a trade site. because unlike what some morons here seem to think… its not a site for botters eyeroll
lol you guys just cant grasp the fact that botting has made them a ton of $$$$
The bans that go out in D2 are just a horse and pony show
They are already on permaban. Doesn’t really matter, the few days spent on botting already paid for the account.
Then they should wipe such accounts everyday 
The Irish are not so emotional as your statement is.
Such anger and resentment screaming at the world in an instant!
I’m scared just reading this and I dont’ bot nor do anything against the rules.
Racist scum hands up trousers down
at this point i’m pretty sure blizzard want you to bot.
Where can I find a d2r Pindle bot?
Good tip, but they are doing this for ages already. If you bot, they will close your license.
Uhm, I believe currently it’s a permanent ban, no 90 days thing. Your D2R license will be gone and your characters/gear as well. Only way you return to D2R is buying a new key on a new account.
For fun join a botting discord and do a search for banned. You see so many posts of people who run bots and get banned after as little as 8-12 hours and a ton within 24 hours. Yes there are ban waves, but they also detect and ban continuously on individual basis.
Blizzard not “doing anything” really isn’t true… but just like cheating in any other game, its a cat and mouse game.
Even 1 bot can make enough $$$ from selling items for real money that banning wont matter. They just re-buy the game on a new account, rinse and repeat. This is even worse if they ban every 1-6 months because thats INSANE profit for the botter and he can afford even more games. Banning bots doesn’t do anything because they always come back.
the “trust me bro” argument is not a good one.
Do some honest people use d2jsp? Yes of course.
Do botters use d2jsp? Yes of course.
Was d2jsp originally created by botters for botters? Yes it was.
Does d2sjp sell the trade currency for real money? Yes it does.
Does forum gold roll over to each new ladder destroying the concept of a fresh economy? Yes it does.
You can see why there is a negative cloud around d2jsp.
Botting would be over the moment Blizzard allowed vetted player moderators to observe private and public games to get rid of bots. Blizzard would never do such a thing tho because bots buying new accounts is their bread and butter. Blizzard makes a bunch of money off bots by doing it in ban waves. After a ban wave, a botter knows they can come back for a few months risk free. That’s the unwritten rule. So they buy new accounts and Blizzard gets more money. $$$$$
The cancer of D2 and any game are the people who swipe their credit card for $200 for a ber rune at launch. P2W crowd is strong nowadays.
If stuff like this didn’t happen, the moment someone got banned for botting, they wouldn’t be able to recoup their loss of $40 for the game. It wouldn’t be profitable and they’d stop.
It’s not really a blizzard problem because you can’t redesign the game in ways to not be bottable. It’s a player problem.
Sure you can. You vet volunteer player moderators to observe all games going on, private or public. Bots would be gone overnight.
Might help but I was moreso talking about how pindle is easy to access for example; or trav has the same map every time. Or shenk is right there every time. Stuff like this makes the game easy as heck to bot compared to botting mephisto for example.