Yo how you feel about the ladder rankings? Personally im really demotivated, Obviously im holding the #2 place record overall “StoreFarmand” however it seems really demotivating watching a “guy” who doesnt not need sleep or breaks from gaming catching my massive lead in a few days. Would be nice if blizzard would investigate why some “people” doesnt need sleep. Of course it could be a shared account, but it also happend last reset where the first place was removed due to botting… did it happend again?
I used to stay up for a few days in a row playing games and chugging caffeine back when I was young. The longest I went was 5 days, and then I slept for a whole day. There are people that do the same thing on the start of the ladder. If you want to chase the ranks, that’s what you’re up against. (Not worth it IMO)
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People who risk their health for “ranking” are clearly deficient in the Mental Health department.
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Doing this kind of thing (e.g. staying awake for days on end to get some kind of “1337 rank”) in a video game is something that maybe gets some thrills for 13-year-old boys with nothing better to do, but for the other 95% of us, it’s simply not worth the effort.
I play the game for fun and for personal achievement (e.g. “how far can you get in Hardcore Hell before the ladder resets”), not for some arbitrary ladder ranking in a game dominated by said 13-year-olds and massive botting. It works for me, but as to the rest of you, YMMV.
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I’m older, definitely can’t do it anymore, I need my Zzz’s. Back when I did it, I wasn’t playing Diablo, I was playing FPS games like Quake and Descent.
Now if I don’t get my Z’s, I might start doing this:
In 20+ years, blizzard has never once cared about the integrity of specific players high up on the ladder unless we are talking about mass banwaves as d2 classic, d3, d2r and d4 have all seen many all for banning bot users.
Ladder is epeen only showing just how much dedication you have. No one is showing off their skills like in mobas/rocket league or making money like many popular games are through streaming…
If you really care about how players think, go contact Claymore12#1107, he is probably the only one around here who claims to have played 6 days straight in d2r hosting over 9000 baal run games in a row dealing with convulsive trolls
lmfao, one for the list of most hilarious things read in d2r forum xD
when i was younger and cooler i would get some illicit stuff to help me stay awake every ladder restart.
im too old for that now. also not really worth it 
(weird things start happening after 6 days no sleep)
in a couple years, feeling healthy will be better than being able to say “yo i was first on ladder once upon a time” lol
ignore ladder do what you like at your own comfy pace.
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