huh what is the question? I played d2 from 2001-2012, so yes there are many things to me that have been a huge improvement which I’ve already pointed out. I would gladly take the current state of the game then go back to old bnet state. No thanks to realm down, temp bans, etc…
And you never replied to my question which game has perfect servers. I have played pretty much every popular multiplayer game in the past 20 years (dota, lol, poe, d3, cod, bf, wow, ow, apex, roblox with my son lol, no man’s sky, etc), none have been perfect especially for ARPGs that feature heavy multiplayer.
then you suck at clicking on services and finding games. I nearly have 9 x characters at level 90 all using private chaos & baal runs from D2JSP… I just gave you one that I was in, we had a free spot open.
This games development was build on top of the old game. They have none of the old source coding. nothing so all the same bugs and flaws from the old game 20 years ago. are here to stay.
its not that they dont want to fix the issues. they cant. unless its server related which alot of these bugs are graphical
Forum Moderators: Work at the Austin Texas Blizzard campus (or remotely to there). Their entire job is to process report tickets for all Blizzard forums for all games. They have nothing to do with Development of games.
Support Forum Agents: Interact on the Tech Support forums across the games specifically to help install and run Blizzard software. They don’t have any interactions with game developers.
QA: They collect the data from the Bug Report forums, log it, try to replicate the bugs, etc etc. Eventually bugs get prioritized and fixed. They also rarely post. Blizz does not let them.
Community Managers: Responsible for collecting feedback across the multiple platforms. Forums, Twitter, Streams, Discords, Reddit, etc. They also do all the publishing, patch notes, lots of promotions, etc etc. They rarely interact and just “chat” with players though. They file a weekly report and hold a weekly meeting with Devs on hot issues, as well as issues the Devs ask them to collect. ESP PTRs and such.
The CMs are the ones you are going to hear from when they are authorized to release something. Last we got was the notes about an upcoming patch with bug fixes that were not specified. Also there will be a PTR to work on some of the larger issues database related that are impacting game creation times and such.
Neither. However, they handle all the Blizzard games and services. I don’t think it is a big team, but it is more than one. I also do not think they are monkeys, other than in the general taxonomic way that we all are.
I don’t know if it is tasking, funding, priorities, or what…but there is NO Blizzard game that is free of spam, client side bots/cheats, etc. If players can initiate it and run it from their own PC, then it is harder to stop. Telling a real person from a sophisticated bot is not always trivial. Spam bots are also not trivial. As soon as you block one thing and ban, they just change the message on the next set of stolen accounts. They have been banning, but it is a drop in the bucket against a tidal wave. If there is money to be made, they WILL try to do it (bad guys).
They have done a fantastic job keeping the actual server data safe for games, and for all our personal info. I give them credit for that.
Quality of life stuff though like the spam bots seems to take forever. If they don’t want to do it, then give me the tools to make custom filters myself for my own text. At least I can adjust those on the fly as the bots adjust. They could also make right click block work, and make it auto mute any text from someone you reported for the rest of the session. You know, like the other Blizzard games. They have not even given us working tools to mitigate it.
This makes absolutely no sense. The bots have nothing to do with any profanity filters and certainly don’t “help” with them. Bots also don’t provide any profits to Blizzard. They make players angry and make Blizzard spend salary $$ on ways to fight it and ban people.
Blizz tried getting into the RMT AH game in D3. It was terrible and they rightfully ended it. I don’t think they ended up making money off it. The costs to maintain it, remove bugs, deal with tons of customer service tickets for slow sales/errors, and the tickets and time to deal with hacked/stolen accounts. It ate up a ton of man hours in pay. They also paid fees to the third party money processing companies and of course the lawyers and such who had to be involved in it all. Not a shock they got out of it, esp with Fed Regs changing that years.
Third party item sellers are a scourge across the internet and most games with any currency/trade. If they operated out of countries that worked with US law they could be sued, but they don’t.
No that’s why the lobbies stopped functioning I would guess. It was sarcasm though. To be real this brand is allowed in countries that censor the flow of information. Some will even resort to violence for speaking about some topics, others will take your life by throwing you in prison to rot. It’s a sad truth. Not all countries have open and free speech. Apparently even “free” (from slavery and oppression) nations don’t have it anymore either.
At least it has finally sunk in that I have zero reason to lie, zero reason to blindly support, zero reason to make things up.
I don’t get anything at all. Which means I can, and do, speak my mind. Hence why if you read the rest of the threads you will see my agreements with points, criticism of Blizz on points, etc. Almost like things are not black and white!
I mentioned this in here somewhere the other day. It WOULD help resolve the spam to a degree. It won’t wipe it all out, but it will deal with some of it - much of it even.
The issue is that it comes at a cost. There is a trade off where the extra security measures are not available to all players so is the lack of bots worth blocking them from talking in the Lobby?
To set up the Authenticator it USED to just be a compatible device that connects once to the interwebs for set up.
Now it has to be set up at the same time as SMS text services - which require a contract cell phone in the country that matches your account. VOIP and most pre-paid don’t work. Cricket usually comes up as pre- paied even for folks who have contract service.
So, it is not just a matter of getting a cheap device that works with the Auth app. It requires a valid phone number. One that can only be attached to one Bnet account at a time. That slows them down a fair bit.
There are many though who hate cell phone apps like the Auth, and who also don’t have a contract phone to set up SMS on. Then there are military and students who travel.
It gets complicated. I am all for it personally. I see why some will complain though. It would not block them from game, just from custom text in the lobby.
It’s always easier said than done, especially to those who has no real skills but to vent.
3 mins delay seems bad but as long as you do not keep jumping games to games in less than 10 seconds you are good. Also no amount of server/connectivity can fix your your DDoS type of bombing when you constantly creating and quitting rooms. And let’s not to mention you only pay 50 bucks once in a life time. You ain’t paying them monthly fee like wow does. So stop complaining, or if you prefer the old way, you are welcome to play original d2 instead.
It’s always easy to point fingers at the company and say things like get more and better servers, but it’s a different story when you are actually in the management team and try to figure out the best approach to offer things that satisfy all players, the upper managements and the accounting team.
You seem to keep trying to make it sound like an insult that I don’t get paid. I am retired. I don’t have to work or want to work. I am quite open about not being paid. It is not an insult as you keep trying to hint at. Not getting paid means I am NOT required to meet any sort of requirements as to what I say besides staying within the rules. It rather undermines the folks who claim MVPs are paid shills. No, no, we are not.
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No, I am not gullible. I am fully conscious of what I have been doing for the past 8 years. My time is spent helping other players primarily - esp with Tech and Customer support/policy things and basic game questions. I do this for multiple games. I do so of my own free choice. I LIKE helping players and answering questions.
I realize that I don’t partake in the “outrage culture” and that is somehow bad for some. Sorry, I got over that in high school. That was long ago. I think corporations have a lot of issues, but I don’t think that is a reason to try to insult those who actually spend time interacting with and helping players.
P.S. I also have a history of volunteering at wildlife centers and animal shelters. I did not get paid for that either nor did I feel taken advantage of.
youre going to get really angry when you find out that its actually blizzard employees making money on the side selling these items on those websites and allowing the spamming to happen…
“Coming Soon ™” 
And you don’t even get paid to do it 
That’s ‘your theory’ 
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