I think the majority of the D3 community are legit players that wouldn’t mind the botters banned so that they can climb the leaderboards if they wish to do so.
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why is this topic still there? my topic about obvious botter was deleted super fast.
and i got many replies like “yeah… its blatant cheater who plays 22 hours every day since s20 start”
General threads about the concept of botting or cheating are sort of ok. Just don’t make multiples.
Threads that call out, or make obvious who a cheater is, are against the forum rules. You might be totally right, but they don’t want us naming names because it can turn into harassment.
If you want to submit information about someone specific you an email hacks@blizzard.com. It is a one way email - they won’t get back to you - but you can submit your concerns.
I will also say, that because D3 does not have any second by second logging in game it makes a lot of things harder to detect.
Here is a good thread about how to report over on the WoW CS board today. Lots of other players gave proper advice and info, and a Blue dropped in to confirm.
Are you kidding, right? I sent multiple emails with botter reports to this address. I included links to movies i recorded as a proof for their activity.
No one EVER downloaded those videos.
So stop fool us that blizz cares about botters, hacks etc, OK?
Mike
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they even cheat with multiple accounts, have one of the bot complete all bounties then invite himself and 3 friends to get the rewards inbetween GR runs.
With that kind of efforts to play this crappy game, idk what kind of losers they are in real life.
To be fair, as a engineer, i think the person/team who created these bots are genius.
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How many threads will it takes before Blizz takes action?
My thread is a few seasons old now and has gotten a lot of attention, but unfortunately not enough.
I too have sent a list of cheaters to the hacks team via email yet the cheaters are still running wild.
Shouldn’t we be promoting anti-cheat threads more until we get justice for our game?
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I have no idea. Not fast enough that is for sure. I want that sort of action taken months ago, and again each season. However, I am not in charge and they don’t talk about the Hacks team, what they are developing/planning, and when they will implement it.
I know being an older game without the second by second game logs, d3 is a bit difficult. Still… players are left feeling like cheating does not matter. That is not right.
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Perhaps no one is home, and the limited bans that we saw last season were to keep us legit players quiet.
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They havent done banwave in YEARS. Every season they henpick a few players and temp ban.
There are botters and streamers using maphack which should be all the evidence needed for a ban, yet they are still pushing the boards without consequence.
Sad times for D3 as a game 
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yeah. i just stopped to play with others in ~s13.
its was kind of joke. this L were in discord and tried to invite me to their game with bot bounty. my dh had 1400 para and i had very good gear. so i didnt need that. and i dont even have so much mats. i dont run bot at night who farm mats or para.
leaderboard is big joke right now and they even support them and delete topics about bots very quick. so not only this players are big L.
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My anti-cheating thread is still active and has some very interesting topics/opinions.
Read through it and drop a comment, let me know what you think.
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d3/t/banwave-request-please/233
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Needless to say we’re speculating but those are all completely plausible points. There are dozens of factors to consider, but a few of the more tangible ones aside from “We actually don’t have the skills to do it” are…
Burden of Proof: I’m well aware that you’re purchasing a license which can be revoked for any reason at any time, but they need to be damn sure they’re not banning innocent players or they’ll have a huge scandal on their hands which may ultimately cost them more than a portion of their player base being disgruntled over botters / scripters. Without knowing what they log or what kind of “footprints” the exploits leave, it’s impossible to know how easy it is for them to detect and act on these things.
Cost: Without a reliable automated system (which the cheaters will almost always be a step ahead of, similarly to malware vs antimalware software), you need manual review to make sure the first issue doesn’t arise, and humans aren’t infallible so you would still likely end up with the aforementioned issue anyway, or letting some cheaters slide because you just can’t be 100% sure (like csgo overwatch).
I’m not sure how some third party anti-cheat software seems to work so incredible well, or how much it would cost to license such software if it would even work for a game like d3 (was it Easy Anti-Cheat that was nearly flawless for a long period of time? Battle Eye? It was something an old CoD game used…), but at this point in the game’s life cycle they’re definitely not going to invest any sizeable amount of money into it.
I’m with you that this never should have been a problem in the first place, but lets face it - d3 at launch was a bloody disaster. It’s no surprise that this aspect fell short as well. It’s just a shame they never fixed it.
Here’s hoping they’ll make a quality anti-cheat a serious consideration and invest the necessary resources into it for Diablo 4!
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Agreed Blink,
They still have a chance to get ahead of the cheaters in D3 to prevent the bot fest that happened in D2, but I don’t understand why they won’t enforce anything.
We know there is a dedicated hacks team that manually bans only a few accounts every other season, if only they would implement something more frequent.
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In the future try doing this with every post you make:
Say what the problem is and then,
Show a video, webpage, etc. with the facts shown.
example: Show us a video of a guy using a macro that is against the ToS!
Otherwise you are just a troll or troublemaker.
There is a major flaw with your request.
If someone were to post a video of an individual cheating, that would go against the ToS of the forums under harassment.
HailFail does not need any evidence to join in the conversation.
He did make an excellent point that almost all the bazooka wizards used macros or auto casting cheats to play.
Bazooka timing was not that difficult and many of us top tier players can execute it fine without the need for cheats.
The laziness of auto casting software makes me cringe. There are no excuses for cheating.
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just checked youtube… and i just wanted to know if there are any plans for anti-cheat or what ever…
FIRST VIDEO IS: 6k NECRO PARAGON BOTTING LIVE!
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Just passing by,
Somehow everyone reads it that way. Look again. Had similar ‘discussion’ in HS forum. Forgot if he didn’t took it well or didn’t join the conversation at all. He shouldn’t have made his id so rhymic looking; his behavior didn’t help also.
Report that player to hacks@blizzard.com
That is unfortunately the only option we have currently.
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Cheating is cheating and there should be no excuses. At least that is what was at least implied last season when someone cheated to 150 on multiple characters. He wasn’t very smart as he pretty much just dared Blizzard to do something. To me there are plenty more here and they are doing the same thing. Only trouble with them is Blizzard has to actually look a bit for them. So what is happening is “no” police equals people who know no one is even looking and that the Blizzard really at least to me, doesn’t seem to want to really address the problem. What a shame for a great game like this one to be in this sad state of affairs.
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