Well, today it happened. All 14 games on my screen (hell join list) were d2honor or d2bits or d2whatever the eff else. Blizzard, please take some kind of action against this.
I’ve seen other threads on this forum, well over a year old, that imply Blizzard is complicit with the RMT companies. I’m not quite ready to wear that tin foil hat, but something needs to be done about it.
I know there was a join lobby overhaul, and it was a good first step, but please implement filtering of the games on the join lobby or maybe some type of preset category system.
I have (slim) hope that a community manager sees this and lets the devs know how bad it’s gotten.
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It seems they are getting desperate. I dont remember them creating games in past. I guess they dont really have that many customers anymore.
Business as usual… They know Blizzard won’t do anything about it.
We can complain until we’re blue in the face about the problem. (And we have been!) Even if Blizzard is listening, the lack of action to quell this problem speaks volumes that they are ignoring both the problem and our demands for action.
Bring on the machine learning/AI automation, Blizzard. Skynet cometh to destroy the botters.
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One can always hope 
I’m not sure how long their $$ drought would need to last for them to stop paying for website hosting, etc… but I hope it is sooner rather than later.
use to be pretty common. not only would they create their own games, they use to join games and spam a billion messages. but then one day, blizzard banned vpns and the like and they all disappeared at the same time and never returned. they couldve returned in the last couple years, havent looked at the original game in some time.
but they were allowed to do crazy things like this on their original bnet. if they did this on the new bnet, everyone would outrage. its not a viable solution for bnet 2.0.
they just need to allow us to have client side filters again. in the original game you had a file that the game processed and anything that was in that file that popped up in a message ingame simply wasn’t displayed to you. you were able to ignore all bots entirely. people shared these files and compiled huge lists of stuff chat botters used in their messages.
we also had private channels back in the day that were self-moderated, so even if there were bots flooding the public channels, we had private channels with channel bots with trivia and listing runs and kept griefers/bad actors/bots out from the channel/related games.
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Unfortunately D2 is a “dead game” in Activisions eyes as you can tell by the lack of any blue posts here, nor any updates.
The game doesn’t even have a skeleton crew sadly, it’s totally abandoned. This post will go ignored as the bots are the only source of income for them atm and it’s all about $$$ sadly.
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