Seriously, why does Blizz not get a handle on this?
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Or atleast make right click ignore do something.
I am tired of /whois then /ignore then report…
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Because something something small indie company.
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It sometimes continues WHILE IN GAME and I have to take the time to type the chat command to leave the lobby so it stops.
The lobby is garbage to begin with.
And so is the messaging system. Someone pulls me into a private message and I have to jump through hoops to message the game again. Great design.
It’s hilarious that Blizzard are so preoccupied with censorship and regulations to how people play their games, yet the D2 lobby is filled with spambots and racist- and homophobic comments.
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If only the text system was same as in Wow.
Hotkey for cycling to targets one button reply to latest whisp etc…
Not this weird manual reclicking message box that half of time does not work and then you get all messages sent in 15mins in one game at once 
Badly implemented queue.
And the lobby in old game was better. Regional channels and channels as a whole,
then you could see lvl of person by popup of their character etc…
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This is basically it in a nutshell.
They forced everyone/anyone who wanted to a multiplayer experience through their Battlenet servers, and slapped a rudimentary “lobby” interface over the top of it. They could have actually directed resources to polishing it- but instead they chose cheap and easy because they weren’t selling it for a AAA price.
And the reason as to why they drag their heels on “dealing with it”, I can only speculate- but it probably has something to do with the financial gains they accumulate from such paid accounts, as they paid the same “entry fee” everyone else did.
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because blizzard is run by people too busy harassing women
To give credit where it’s due, the spambots do tend to scroll the other toxic garbage offscreen pretty fast - often within seconds.
Every account they ban for spam, is replaced immediately by another.
They obviously use VPN’s and bouncing to avoid “perma bans” from certain ips.
Or maybe you think “hardware bans” would solve this…Well that’s circumventable and won’t stop these massive pay to win sites.
They have infinite amounts of cash to repurchase all necessary products to keep doing this all day every day.
Do you expect Blizzard to just ban without evidence when new accounts are made?
What’s your genius idea to “stop” spam bots???
I’ll wait as you realize there is nothing you can do and come back to apologize for your arrogance.
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I mean, website bots/spammers are pretty obvious, so just ban their game license after a warning ban or two lasting 72 hours or whatever. You say they’ll just get another copy of the game, but doesn’t that just mean free/infinite money for blizz it they just continued to ban these blatantly ToS violating accounts? You would think Blizz would want that. Not to mention that it would make the lobby chat more of a usable space for, you know, real players. Am I wrong here somewhere, or…?
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This is exactly how they handle bots, Have you ever noticed no bot has the same name??? There is nothing Blizz can do to stop this flat out.
The one thing that would help lobby chat is a two factor authentication to use lobby chat…you interested in such gate keeping just to chat every so often when they give us this forum with LFG channels?
Weirdly, a lot of the ones in my block list have names like “random word” + pants.
I see a whole lot that are just strings of alphanumerical jargon.
Yes, the character name it shows in the chat window…but when /ignored, it shows the account battle tag, that’s what I’m seeing in the block list. SomethingPants#??? over and over.
If that’s the case, then at a certain point, the people running the bots will stop buying game licenses, right? 40 dollars times dozens, hundreds, thousand of bans, at a certain point becomes unsustainable for them and they’ll be forced to stop for good, no? Or do spammers have unlimited money to buy more copies of the game to infinity? Honestly curious, actually. Anyway, if that’s actually the case, they need to ban their game licenses at a far quicker clip, hammer them over and over and over until it simply becomes unsustainable for the website spam bots to buy any more game licenses.
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10000% this, sadly there isn’t much blizz can do. ban doesn’t do much. at least they can’t whisper you like in classic bnet!
Since we can almost guarantee they do not use the same bots for spamming chat, farming, and sales we can assume only their chat bots are continuously banned and removed.
I’ve seen people talking about single items costing upwards of over a hundred dollars. If this holds true then for every one high tier item they can afford upwards of say 4+ accounts.
This is unlimited in regards to the rate at which they are banned. If there wasn’t a profit it wouldn’t be such a predominate problem.
Right, but that only works so long as people are paying hundreds of dollars for items, and from those sellers specifically. Idk what the D2 playerbase is like, but I don’t think 99% of players spend hundreds of dollars on items? So they will run out of money, far sooner than later. At least, if they keep hammering them, and increase their rate of hammering them, at some point the problem solves itself (website spam botters to bankrupt, essentially)
Diablo II Resurrected have more spam bots than original Diablo II had in 19 years.
Blizzard Enterntainment only care in moneeey
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