Hot Take: split the asia server from NA and EU

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sell sites and spambots have always been an issue in D2, long before the days of d2:R.

but most of those spambot used to use in-game chat… they would join your game… spam for a couple second and leave.
we also has an unlimited blocklist, and could even download lists of spam accounts.

on top of all this … trade was not possible between realms

while i have no issue with trade between NA and EU.

asia is unfortunately filled with Chinese botters/ dupers and sell sites.
that’s not to say they aren’t here in the US and and EU as well… but only a small fraction are here compared to china

if u look at the data of the dclone walks from the dclone discord.

upwards of 80% of dclone walks are on asia server.

now you may ask…
why region lock asia… if the issue is botters and sell sites? isn’t that just a bandaid? it wont fix the issue.

to which i say… yes… thats correct… it is.

but since blizzard seems utterly incapable of getting rid of spambots.
im proposing something they CAN easily do… it wont remove the issue but it will at least make it less bad.

the ideal solution would be for blizzard to bad accounts… IP ban botters. and permaban sell sites. and have people at blizzard watching chats,
give us an unlimited block list and give us proper chat channels.

but since thats apparently to too hard for them and all they can do is “add runewords”.

“cutting the cord” between asia and EU/NA should at least give us some reprieve.

personally i have less issue with the botters themselves and the economy inflating than the sell site spamming ruining lobby chat.

i make the vast majority 80+% of my freinds in d2 by helping out people in the lobby or forming groups in the lobby.

i have not been able to do this in d2:R and have had basically no one to play with.

for me… the spambots in lobby are killing the game faster than any balance changes. because it affects my ability to make friends play with others. and after playing d2 for over 15 years… ive solo farmed enough

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Virtual balloon popping, poor china

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Can’t help with the bot spam, but, if you want to make friends through D2r, the Trade section here is pretty good.

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well keep in mind if they can’t as easily sell good here they also cant as easily login to our realm to spam… and they would have less reason to spam if its harder to sell goods.

of course the proper solution would be for blizzard to get their act together… hire a couple minimum wage people to sit in the lobby banning people… or you know… make a proper filter… or only allow ascii characters.

i mean they have a filter stupid enough to censor out swear words.

and they could give us an unlimited block list.

there are many ways they could fix it… they just need to do SOMETHING.
and since they cant seem to do the other basic stuff… this is even more basic.

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There are probably a lot of players, too. China has a population over 1.4 billion, more than 4x the United States, for example.

I don’t think it’s your intent at all, but this whole post reads really weird in context of current geopolitics.

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He want to build a virtual wall and blizzard is going to pay for it lol. Idea is dumb as what the media has trained people to think. Doing that will not stop bots as long as there’s a reason to bot, they can easily use VPNs and what are you going to do now? The root of the problem is nothing is don’t about the sites selling the items, we one one who shall not be named running for 20 years with no interruption.

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Add to this the culture difference

P2w, wether it be official or 3rd party is widely accepted in Asian culture

While in occidental cultures it’s frowned upon

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for someone who knows of vpns… you seem to know next to nothing about how the internet works.

blizzard has local servers… for each realm… those server are then backed up to a global servers… so if they want to go cross realm… that character can be downloaded and accessed on said other realm.

people hear have stated asia has a larger playerbase.

well that playerbase needs to be accessible globally and not just locally…
this means they need more storage space. and it means tyhat data has to be stored in yet more redundant locations

if you remove asia from having to be backed up on global servers and only needing backups on local server… you save a TON of space on the global servers.

because now the data already being saved on asian servers… only needs to be saved on asian servers.

if u know anything about networking you would know this… but you dont.

also… you think china can “Easily” use vpns?

most asian countries have network cafe’s.

and china in particular has an extremely oppressive and invasive government watching them do everything.

im guessing that government wont take kindly to them using vpns that would stop them from spying on the citizens they are trying to oppress.

not everyone has rights you know.

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They’d just bot on NA/EU and buy NA/EU accounts and use proxies. The market is too big for them to ignore.

There are no dupes. There are a crazy amount of bots tho.

As for the chat bots, any sort of active mod should just ban the account first offense. Even if they cannot keep up with the purchasing of new accounts at least it would be free money lol.

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there are definitely dupes… idk what your talking about.

they actually fixed a most well known dupe method in 2.6 ( idk if there are others but i know of this one, I’ve even triggered it by accident before)
( or they are indicating they have… we havent seen it)

Fixed an issue where the Shared Stash could exceed the memory limit, which caused items in the player's inventory or Stash to be deleted.

you could overload the memory buffer to the point where you would take an item out of the stash and the game would think its still in there.

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The shared stash patch note was about stopping items from disappearing not from duping.

Yes there was a shared stash potential method where an individual item could be duped and it was hotfixed long ago. Not only that nothing of value could be duped it would poof the item. Though some people traded it off and ripped people off, it was hotfixed within 3 days.

There are no current dupes. I’m sure there is potential for them just like in every game it seems.

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I don’t trust any culture that finds it acceptable to pay for advancement in a competition.

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Buy new copy, spoof region make new account and start botting. So dumb.

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They found a balloon flying over canada and the usa, probably collecting passwords for d2r, ban everyone in asia for that!

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You mean micro transactions? That’s the plan for over watch 2 and d4, you’re a little late to the party if you wanna complain to blizzard.

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  • government sees someone use VPN

We gottem boys, straight to the gulags.

Hahahahaha

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No, cosmetic microtransactions are perfectly fine. Same with what is essentially a monthly subscription.

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I guess exp bonus and unlocking heroes counts as cosmetics.

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Paying a subscription allows you to gain the standard XP you should be getting. A free player is essentially just demoing the game, and has a little XP gain. This is not pay to win, it’s just a subscription versus a demo.

Pay to win is paying money and getting gear or attributes that allows you to outperform other players who pay the baseline subscription.

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You’re just dressing up the same crap. If you pay money to buy the game then there should be no micro transactions. If the game is free to play but you have to pay extra to level faster or get exclusive features then it’s pay to win. None of this it’s a demo spin, it’s either free or not.

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