Financial loss doesn’t seem to deter people even in 60 dollar titles. Account value/how hard it is to reach the top is probably a bigger deterrent than money. If it takes 3/4 years to get to the very top and have the best stuff in a game people would be less likely to risk their accounts then.
Edit: Or you’d have to be VERY on top of stopping cheaters, so that the financial loss was so often and they’d get little to no use out of their cheats.
There are still plenty of hunter-gatherer tribes that practically wear nothing. If anything, they’ll have a loin cloth, and of course a plethora of piercings with bone jewelry.
Depends on the nature of those bans. If they were VAC bans, the financial loss could be much, much greater.
Similarly, Blizzard could issue Battle.Net account-wide bans. but it chooses not to.
If the ban system was “too” strict (but not perfect - because that’s impossible), such as banning every cheat user immediately, it’d be also easy for the cheaters to figure out which cheats it detects and which doesn’t.
A VAC ban is just a ban for the title on the account? Cheater make dummy accounts to then play CSGO and get banned weekly with no recourse what so ever.
They could ban main accounts and multiple title bans associated with one cheater, but that would only really mess over a few dumb cheaters.
D2R cheaters, make a dummy email, dummy bnet accout, get the D2R game and bot. The only thing lost during a ban wave is that one account, which they don’t care about usually because they’ve muled off anything of real value. While banning all linked accounts seems like a huge deterrent I don’t think it would get very many people.
You have to make it financially a bad idea to try. If you do ban waves 2 months into ladder it is a math problem for botters and RMT sites. If you ban bots day 2 and day 6 and day 10 of ladder then they’re losing their edge. Ban waves have never protected the known entity of what was and wasn’t bannable. Most people only use one cheat per account it doesn’t protect the info of what warden knows. A user who MH is a MHer. A user who bots, typically only runs the bot on that account. Someone might use both, but in the end you’d still know what was detected based off what other users of that same illegal program say.
For D2R it has to be profit stopping to hurt botters. And now with bots being so good that is even harder. They can work for 1/2/3 days and pay for their accounts many many many times over.
Are you saying that people who have English as second language are not allowed to post here since random “grammar police” nerd might get offended?
Well my life is too short to be angry about something that not really effect me, if you want to waste your time and energy beeing mad and complain about people destroying their fun buying items thats your problem, do whatever you like.
But not a single word you write in this forum will change anything about it.
You may call it dirty rotten cowardice because you are mad other people have better gear in a videogame.
Are you just another of those with a crystal ball that knows about my motives or whatever?
You make a problem out of something you cant change and something that not effects you. After all this is still a videogame. I wish I had problems like that lol
i hate stormwind. 
English is also my second language also. What’s that have to do with anything?
The guy states that he is in MENSA and a veteran programmer, yet he can’t even spell ‘genius’ correctly.
You should’ve read and understood the context before riding around here on your high horse. Cheerio!
thats an old meme 
i think it was 1998 when someone nagged me with “are you in MENSA” when i tried to sound smart 
Just cringe how people start to play that grammar card because they dont have any arguments.
Spelling isn’t part of grammar, but regardless we’re talking about making fun of bravata. I mean I can disagree with all of you about a million things and its all good, but bravata is well, something extra.
Even this thread is about Dota 2, and a different company banning cheaters in a D2R forum from another different company. He then goes on to pretend in like 5 other posts to be proficient in what? Programming? MENSA “genious”? “Auditor of technology security settings in my free time” “Bravataeducted”
He then tried to compare how often something was googled to representing how large the player base of that game is. It was weird that most games shows a similar downward trend after they’re released because you don’t need to google the game itself anymore after you have it downloaded. Crazy I know.
But yeah grammar and spelling police in general just for the sake of seeming superior is a weird flex especially against those who speak a different language. I don’t really think that was his goal tho, it was simply to make fun of bravata for being bravata.
Bravata does say a lot of over the top things.
There do seem to be a group of people who try to troll every one of his posts. In case any of you think you come across as any less over the top ( trying to use polite words) than Bravata, you really don’t.
I 100% agree with you. Though I won’t make grandiose claims about myself. I’m just willing to argue for and against SSF ladder in any thread just cuz I can. Most get salty or dodge when their points are shut down and disproven. Also pretending as if there is some crazy moral high ground in anything especially as basic as a video game thats a weird one. Meanwhile arguing points with someone who can actually make valid points is great. Even if I disagree with them. Bravata had one sober night a while back and did make some actually valid non-crap posts.
Yah, I didn’t type that well. I was just trying to flame you for not realizing all the ways Blizz could profit. All good, I didn’t phrase it well and it now defeats the purpose of my dumb comment.
This is the most reasonable response. Blizzard does not care that players cheat in bnet D2. All we can do is point recognize them when they attempt to voice an opinion. They’re like the kid that plays the same game as you, but never without a gameshark, but they still try to assert their opinions on the game as if they’re relevant.
I’m just glad we no longer have to deal with Bravata’s posts on Diablo 3. They are your problem now!
Thanks for sharing you’re my new friend. <3
Don’t listen to the haters.
Blizzard needs to step up to the plate and end botting.
Perhaps she forgot that spelling correctly in forum discussions is what makes you a veteran programmer and mensa?
But why do people even care about cheating? The most important step is to fix the werebear! Otherwise there is no reason to play. At all.
Anyone with a bit of intelligence quickly learns that presentation is vitally important. Proper grammar and spelling on a forum is similar to grooming and hygiene before leaving the house.
I can’t wait until riot releases their MMO.