Will the Microsoft acquisition get rid of the complacent staff at blizzard?

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Now that Microsoft are taking control of activision, what does this mean for the future of d2?

Obviously, it’s now abundantly clear all staff are blizzard have “given up” and the latest season notes are a slap in the face to us.

My hope is that the staff currently working on the game are replaced with competent developers. Microsoft aren’t the best at maintaining games but we can be damn sure they will be better than how it’s currently being done.

Forgive my ignorance as it’s not a subject I’m expert in, but there’s clearly a vibe of “nothingness” and low effort coming from blizzard. Is it a given staff are being made redundant and that’s why they are sticking their fingers up at us? Or are all teams and business as usual similar to how Tencent take over companies I.e ggg (but then they are competent passionate and skilled staff)

Imagine being asked in an interview please show us examples of where you’ve handled an unhappy community for the game you are cm for : Diablo 2 and what you did to address it…. And the tumbleweed blows past lol embarassing tbh.

In short, can we hope that Microsoft taking over will change the undeniably awful way blizzard is currently operating from a consumer standpoint? If yes, then I’ll take a nothingness season in the hopes that the people who made that decision get replaced pronto. Including cms that post once a year. They aren’t doing their job as far as I’m concerned as a consumer.

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Most likely nothing.

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That’s a shame. Why do you say that?

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Working further on this game isn’t going to make them any more money… So it’d be a waste of manhours… Just like now.

Blizzard going under the M$ watch is likely going to change nothing.

One can hope, but that’s only setting themselves up for disappointment.

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we may not see anything for d2r, but at the very least microsoft will actually be able to pull good talent and the quality of the games theyve been putting out will improve at least a little bit. literally anything is better than how blizzard currently is.

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So basically a prison transfer. :laughing:

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d2 isnt about profit

d2 is their flagship title that everyone loves and remembers.

d2 should be their highest priority. even if they have to maintain it at a cost.

d2 is what brings people to their other games.

if it wasnt for d2 i wouldnt have touched any other blizzard games… and after touching other blizzard games… d2 is still king

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Tell Bobby Kotick that, he’s the one you need to convince. (For the remainder of his short tenure anyway.)

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i could spend 2 days on this game and probably get it to sell over 20k more copies easy
and that includes the time learning how to freaking work on it.

blizzard is willfully incompetent.

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I’m sure we could all spend 2 days and make the game great… For our own personal taste. Then there are others who would spend those two days just playing the game, because they think it’s great as it is. And there lies the problem, trying to satisfy the player base as a whole. Which I believe is one of their primary dilemmas on the game… To change, or not to change?

The player base is essentially a committee… If the super majority aren’t in favor of something, then the status quo remains.

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no you see, i dont NEED to put it to “my personal taste”

because im not going to touching balance in 99% of cases.

im going to just copying doing easy fixes like this

and then doing some other easy fixed
copy and paste the filter from POD

and every account that is banned for botting/ spamming sell sites? i lock the entire account, lock the IP and lock the MAC… if a new account is detected… u ban it instantly… and guess no… NO BAN APPEALS

a new account starts spamming… instant lock… “botter? instant lock”
and sell site spammed in chat? DCMA it.

sell site that dont take down? DDOS it.

i will RIP THOSE BOTS APART.

i will do tactic legal or otherwise to make it stop.
because IDGAF.

i will make the botters life a living hell. so its absolutely not worth their time to even try

how mnay CD keys, how many accounts… not many IP will they get banned… how many network cards.

they going to buy a network card with re-programmable mac addresses? then you better buy a lot of them

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Since Micro$oft is so heavily invested in AI, I’m really hoping they will consider employing the tech for cheat detection in this game. The players (or the bots) already feed everything an AI algorithm needs for detection with the control of their character.

Diablo 2 is one of the most cheated and hacked games in existence… It needs help in a big way for online play. I think the use of AI is the only way to make it happen.

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i mean the first step is to ban the sell site spammers and get lobby working, with channels and moderators and stuff then epople can actually start to trade in game and play together… an AI spam deception for that is absurdly simple. actaul botters are a bit harder

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Screw banning network cards… You want to hit the cheaters in the feels, ban their graphics cards.

NGREEDIA raises hand :raised_hand: “Sounds like a good plan.”

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i mean i dont think thats possible… nor do u even really need a gpu to play this… integrated works just fine… u can play it in lod settings.

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Every card has a Globally Unique IDentifier (GUID). Open device manager, right click your display adapter, properties, details, select “Class GUID”, you’ll get the 128bit identifier. A 128 bit figure can be one of 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 possibilities, which I don’t think we’re anywhere close to yet, or any time in the next… 200 years+.

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it doesn’t matter. they can already see your HWID. that stuff can be spoofed.

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There will probably be some manner of reorganization, but no one really knows whats going to happen.

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Hell damn yeah!!! I love this attitude towards the loser/cheaters/botters!!!