Here we go again guys, you wake up and there’s 2008…. again, mass bots, blizzard does nothing. Oh wait, another promo of game so they can run 200 bots each person. GG
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Blizzard needs to shut down D2jsp and players who use it. As long as D2jsp exists for it’s users to sell items, us fair players will have to suffer all of the thousands of bots the cheaters run.
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How can they “shut down” something they don’t own?
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They can’t do that. However, they could ban the bot users. They won’t though, because they are their favored customer base.
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Got to let those bots ruin ladder for the first month or so, so they can eventually rebuy new accounts. They love them. They even put the game on sale after every ban wave.
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Correct. Pretending to ineffectively combat hacks and cheats is baked directly into their business model. They are even proud of this.
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While I don’t think that they can actually get rid of everything, they’re for sure inefficient at even trying. I think no matter what all games will have cheaters or botters of MHers or walls or aimbot or whatever. But there is no flag system for “too good” gameplay or “suspicious behavior” gameplay. No teams to review those players or matches and see if what they see is suspect. They don’t even try to keep up, they just want the ban wave and free money from reselling the game to the same users over and over.
That’s because they aren’t trying. The biggest effort they would ever make is to have an intern s-post about how they are continuing their arms race against cheaters.
There are free open source AIs that create art, music, have conversations, etc. Alphastar dunked on pro SC2 players. The whole ‘lack of manpower’ argument can be discarded at this point. They d-slapped their fans with a 20 character account limit of 9kb files. You think they can’t query their own database and scan for outliers? You think they can’t watch network traffic, F - even the dogwater LoD servers auto-ban VPN and tracked time played from IP/CDKey/Account. They simply not only have zero interest, they profit from letting this go on.
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A well prepared cease and desist letter should do the job.
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Would do absolutely nothing. JSP breaks no laws.
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I’d wager that most of the copies of D2/LoD/D2r ever sold were bought and re-bought by botters. They’re never gonna kill the goose that’s laying the golden eggs.
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Who would’ve thought that this would become the best business strategy? Such a disgrace to gaming.
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It is clear in activision titles across the board that this is the company’s stance. Honestly though it is the easiest way for them to increase sales, but way back when real good games were made. Back when LOD started out, back in Ghost recon island thunder and GR2, back during halo 1. They weren’t all about sucking every dime out of your pocket they had fans that would buy every new game they made because they knew it was going to be solid. The activision rushed trash meta and remaster meta are the only way they know how to make money. And other companies followed right behind. The only thing that matters now for most games is how much money they make. Activision makes far less off me than Blizzard did back then. I owned every game with the exception of WoW (I didn’t really get MMOs at the time and didn’t have anyone to play WoW with). But everything else was bought. Meanwhile the only game from them in the past 8 or so years I’ve bought has been D2R. Though I will admit OW is at least decent, but I never got into it. The rest is all garbage.
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Basically
EULA is crystal clear that all in game items are registered as blizz property so players selling it for credit is a direct “violation of blizz IP” and JSP assisting in this violation is clearly “crime facilitation”
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Crazy how you said he is basically right, but they don’t even write a cease and desist letter. Could it be perhaps that the billion dollar company has lawyers that told them they couldn’t do anything about it? Could it also be that Blizzard fully supports the AH and common currency creator that is D2JSP? Yea, that is probably what is actually going on.
Rules/laws do not apply to (or are rather ignored by) those who run bots. Laws do apply to Blizzard.
If laws did not apply to Blizzard, they could do more to combat the botting issue. But the tools they would use to combat the problem would make people cry spyware.
It is what it is. This is the best we got folks. Enjoy what we have, it’s not going to get any better. Play offline or SSF if it bothers you. Botters suck, but apparently Blizzard hands are tied when it comes to how effective they are at combating the issue.
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Feel free to push the narrative you think its the best
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Is it not the factual narrative? No cease and desist letter or lawsuit is pending. They already have lawyers that are getting paid regardless. Drafting a simple letter isn’t some crazy difficult task. Crazy how they seem to keep forgetting to do it though. 20 years of forgetfulness. I wish the devs were that forgetful after D2R launch. Then we wouldn’t have their awful “updates”.
They could just say nothing, or lie - like they did about nearly every faucet of d2r in their advertising that is still proudly posted.
Not even close. They just choose to do nothing. Lobby is full of spam, you don’t think an unpaid intern or fan with rudimentary coding background could clean that up in a matter of hours?
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Same strategy as Twitter when Elon made his bid to buy them out.
Value was based on user metrics, where the total number of active users which were bots was claimed to only be 5-10% of the population which massively inflated the value of the company product.
Of course, it was proven that over 85% of all Twitter users were bot accounts spamming nonsense all day.
Same thing with blizzard games. Hell, look at lost ark for the first couple months of the US release. Number one on steam charts and then it was proven to be all bots and suddenly the population plummeted to like 20% and people started quitting.
Bots are the life blood of Act/Blizz artificially making the retention rates of player way higher than they actually are.
You don’t wanna get in the way of ole Bobby and his new yachts.
Bots will never go away.
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