Is blizzard going to do anything about cheating? D3 has the most prolific cheating community of any game I’ve played in recent memory. People need to be taught a lesson that bots and macros aren’t tolerated and WILL get you banned, or they’ll continue to use them.
Especially now that the timing on star pact will become even tighter with the new changes. Macros need to be rooted out
The way I see it, we have three options.
At this point, I have lost faith and won’t ever again open my game to public.
I make my own fun, but that is starting to wear thin too. I did enjoy competing, but now it’s more like… What’s the point? 
Can’t compete with 5000 seasonal paragon TotallyNotABot accounts
I played with one yesterday. We had done all the bounties. I always go back and check for drops. I went in to the one area where the Bot was. You know what they are when they just keep moving back and forth in one spot.
Just kick them from the game if you know they are there. I have been playing video games from 1980. Most gaming companies build cheats into the games. Most games then and now do.
One time Steam did a thing where they went after cheaters. It almost put them out business. There was a lot of piss people over there. So cheating has been here from day one and it be here for ever too. “LIVE WITH IT”
Star Pact Wizards use a script. Don’t give people who use Marcos a bad name.
ofc they will, they do already.
budget, knowledge and being on the defence are factors that are in play too.
Move on , there is nothing new on this thread
To the OP. Quit whining and give it a rest! Botters and cheaters have been around since the D3 first came on board. Only so much can be done. If you know someone is cheating, don’t play with them. I mostly play solo, so I do not care about anyone else nor does it affect my gameplay. Why don’t you do the same, or just play with friends, if it bothers you that much. All you are doing is spamming and posting about a topic that has run rampant in these forums since the start of D3. We are all getting sick of it, and I am sure that so is Blizzard. You have to live with it, or move on to other games.
Botting is profitable. No one cares about that.
I meet a guy I played when we were circa 3000 para.
I met him recently, he is 10000+ now, I’m 5555 
Mike
I doubt it. Consider how many ayears have passed similarly situated.
D4 imo will be no different.
FeelsAbandonedMan
Apparently modern Blizzard can’t figure out to separate offline and online mode so hacking/moding/cheating take place in offline and not online.
So it’s not surprising that modern Blizzard can’t figure out how to write anti bot scripts.
Or worse. They’re using their games to allow bot testers a play ground to archive tinfoil hat beliefs.
Who knows. But this community can’t seem to understand, and doesn’t want offline mode cause it’s some how “impossible” cause people cheat in single player game.
This is the standard Blizzard is held to.
Wait, didn’t Torchlight Frontier turn into Torchlight 3 with a single player offline mode and a multiplayer online mode where offline characters cannot go onto the multiplayer part?
Hail, I’m on your side, but I’m being snarky towards other people.
D2 had both online and offline mode. Heck they even had open bnet (for the hackers and cheaters) and closed bnet for the other players. I had multiple characters on closed bnet and offline mode. When the hackers and cheaters crossed over to closed bnet and killed the game for everyone, I stayed with offline mode till WoW was live. Matter of fact, I didn’t even have internet till WoW was live.
I wished that Blizz could have made an offline option for D3, especially where there is horrible lag. I hate the fact that a single player game can be dc’d or lag spiked to death. Especially when I like to play HC mode. Also, who cares if people use mods, editors, hacks for solo offline mode. It has nothing to do with anyone else or even online play.
But, the new generation of players and coders as you said “can’t figure out to separate offline and online mode so hacking/moding/cheating take place in offline and not online” So Boomers can do it, but the younger more savvy/technical Millennials can’t? HA! Now that is both ironic and funny af.
What hackers and cheaters?
I would like actual proof. I know there were some bug items, duping, and map hacks.
But never have I ever seen one bug item, which isn’t even caused by hacking. I never seen a single hack character once in all my years of playing Diablo 2, nor have I EVER seen anyone mention a hack character on closed battle net.
So proof, or sit down and be quiet. Cause I sure as hell ain’t gonna take your word as law.
Plenty people on this forum love to make up claims to fit their narrative, as lying comes natural when you don’t care about objective morals and only to win power.
Also not a boomer. And by this logic…
Ubisoft,EA, Blizzard, and Bethesda are all ran by millennials and they can’t figure out how to make a good game!
For example, my friends still joke about it today, I had a Paladin on closed bnet that was hacked almost on a daily basis. It would be level 99 one day, 45 the next, full geared, no gear, back and forth, bla bla bla, etc.
Heck I even showed then the proof and they just laughed and laughed. WHY? Was my Paladin hacked? Because of his name. If you remember, the Paladin was a black guy, so I named him Anti_Whiteman just for kicks and what not. I wasn’t even serious about the character at all.
Then I deleted him and made a new Paladin with a more friendly name, if you will, and nothing. No hacks of any kind. So I decided to test the waters again. I deleted that Paladin and I resurrected Anti_Whiteman and it started all over again. It was literally a meme before a meme was a meme. It was hilarious.
I knew others that had their toons hacked as well. Of course those where the idiots that would buy stuff from the so called paypal verified players. Yes, there were many map hacks and weapon hacks and skill hacks for online mode.
I thought, man there is an open bnet for that crap, go way. But at that point, open bnet was no longer fun for them, so those toxic &@%$ers had to cross over to closed bnet and that’s when D2 online mode died.
Ubisoft,EA, Blizzard, and Bethesda are all ran by millennials and they can’t figure out how to make a good game! <------ That’s my point exactly. Boomers could do it, but they can’t. Boomers didn’t have the technology at their fingertips like the millennials either, yet they did a lot more with a lot less.
For the best. Some people come here to pick fights and insult others. Not worth your time.
I’m sitting here with a bowl of popcorn and a beer. This crap never stops on here does it. Op started a thread on botters and next thing we have a mud throwing contest. LOL
Like I said they all write codes into their games so you can cheat. It has been like that from day one of video games. Plus it will be there when we all dead and gone too.
Not really, no.
The game is too old and they are not going to dedicate resources to combat cheating.
They only cared about cheating during Vanilla D3 when there was persistent online economy and Real Money Auction House, yet the game wasn’t really competitive.
In RoS the game is more competitive, because of Greater Rifts and Ladder/Leader Boards, and yet Blizzard are not lifting a finger.
This should tell you, that they only take action if there are money involved… or if you’re too high profile… as in in top 20 on Season.
Can you give me an example of how macros grant unfair advantage in current D3? I haven’t looked into how people cheat nowadays.
I’d say, that something like maphack (there’s a name for it, but I don’t wanna mention it) and botting are the major problems.
However, if the game was designed in a better way, like if there was no uncapped Paragon and if Greater Rifts weren’t the way they are, there wouldn’t be so many cheaters.
Big Red:
Same, hence the Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!
Like an old AM/PM commercial “too much good stuff”
Steve:
Would be nice, huh? If not a ban, at least a silent moratorium for a few days. Then again, ignoring the person and moving on is the best thing to do. I’ll respond to others, but I won’t respond to that person anymore. Nope. I’m done.
1 no one tells me what to do and
2 do it yourself
More BS you have been nothing but insulting and toxic since you got here
So practice what you preach about toxic behaviour
Yeah the part that says you don’t come here
I can admit when I’m wrong, when I’m wrong and I can be peaceful too
But I wasn’t the one that came in here purely to start a war like you did
In Diablo 3 it is one keypress for one action, using a macro you are using one keypress for multiple actions which is against the ToS