There is an easy way to get rid of bots. Take down D2JSP. The only reason bots exist is to make money selling FG.
Not to mention that a ton of people would return to the game if D2JSP were gone, including me, because it ruined ladder. No one starts ladder equally anymore. People using D2JSP don’t have their FG reset, so they’re able to buy the best gear the second a bot finds it, way before anyone else playing normally would get it because of how many bots there are. Normal players don’t get to trade either because everyone is on D2JSP instead.
And it’s so hypocritical when people who use D2JSP complain about bots when they get all their items from them.
But it’ll never happen. Too many people would cry when they realize how hard ladder is when you aren’t able to buy every time in the game.
A large number of users on JSP are there just because it’s a better way to trade. I’m sure there are botters there, but still, taking down JSP won’t eliminate botting. Item selling websites are the primary incentive for running bots. It’s passive income for those running them.
The only way to significantly reduce the incentive to run bots and eliminate item RMT would be to bind items on account. (Account selling would still be a thing though.)
Don’t think that anti-cheat will ever do anything in the long term, because it won’t.
Wrong, not true in the least bit. Doing anything with forum gold after botting is simply low value and not worthwhile. I’m sure there might be some exception to the rule, but there are just as many botters on traderie.
JSP had nothing to do with the ruining of ladder.
You’re confusing actual RMTers and JSPers. And while you’re right that nobody trades in game it isn’t just because of JSP. You forgot that the company whose game you play does nothing about the game list spam nor RMT spam in game.
When you trade in game you have zero idea where that item came from. Please dont’ pretend you know better. Even a friend could be a botter and you’d have no idea.
Blizzard has no power over external websites, eg d2jsp or traderie or ebay etc. Trading is integral part of the game, cannot and should not be stopped. Whether you trade items receiving Pokemon cards or US dollars is outside of the game’s remit and cannot be controlled. I am not a supporter of d2jsp BTW.
I think the game is absurdly easy when playing in a well organized group: no rare gear needed. As for “ladder” being difficult… I suppose this only works if “patience” is difficulty.
Basically, D2R has done its job. It is a very old game in great splendor.
If you want to push D2R, then the best way to do that is with 2 new big acts and a new class. You can also expand the depth of the old zones and add a locked gate or portal here and there to add depth to the scenery and add a quest.
That’s probably not going to happen. D2R is simply a bonus.
Increasing the game in the area of items and towers at the end will only devalue the game itself. D2 was and is so good precisely because it is a game with a beginning and an end and not an endgame game and then it starts. D2 is the path and the development up to a point where you say, I’ve had enough. But the great fun of D2 was always the totally different way of playing due to the different skills of the classes.
What D4 didn’t manage to do was and is the big game changer in D2.
Take a class and skill it differently and the game suddenly feels different and so does your approach. The pace varies, your actions vary, the feel changes, your tactics change… It was just great fun to play the game this way.
And luckily there is no deviation from the core game in D2. There’s no GRIFT at the end, there’s no tower. If that had been the case, D2 would never have been so good, it would have been bad even back then because of this artificial endgame.
The only thing I chalk up to the game today is that they made it worse back then with a patch with skill synergies in terms of build variety. Sometimes you’re just nailed down too much, which I particularly notice with the Sorc.
I also didn’t think the immunities were that great and then having to break them again by using rare items… It doesn’t have to be like that…
The game is old. Most ppl wont even play for 1 month. There are alot of alternatives and games out. Its not like back in the day when there wasnt many options and ppl would stick to 1 game.
It didn’t even peak as high as D2 did after years of being released.
The forums remain inactive showing threads that are over a week old.
People denying the game are dead have very low IQ’s and are more or less in denial.
The economy is also an absolute mess. I used to think bots were not an issue until I saw the economy and now understand how messed up the econ is and how often runes are being botted.
Not to mention Mosaic sin being the only think you should really build as nothing even remotely comes close to the clear rate of them.
Broken, Dead game that virtually no one plays anymore.
Look at the forums here… you notice how there are very few threads … you notice how lots of them go days if not a week+ without a response?
You really think lots of people play? Really? You are literally just making that up without any sort of statistics to back it up.
I mean atleast in the original D2 you could type /players and see how many players were connected as well as games made… wonder why new cuckold blizz took that out… probably has something to do with their need to control the narrative in their games about active users.
Runescape… is more popular than this game… nuff said. In the early 2000s D2 was way more popular than runescape… now though… naw Diablo franchise in general is dead and blizzard is entirely to blame…
Blizzard is a hollow shell of what it used to be and is no longer a good development studio. They are in fact one of the worst AAA development studios now and harbor a weird liberal ideological view while suppressing any sort of political discourse on all their platforms unless it supports their liberal/democratic ideology.
there is no need to say how good a piece of software this is
it is just not managed right
the key to revitalizing the game is surely to add more content… which we are willing to pay for… but yeah, this company is not what it was… they have recently been following the -obvious- wrong direction…
