Yeah i know, this dead horse is so thoroughly beaten its glue at this point
But the level of openness and arrogance the botters on the EU leaderboards are displaying now is honestly mindblowing
It’s an entire CLAN of people botting and taking all the top spots nearly
They’re even naming their battletag & character names the same name as the actual bot program they’re using, or naming themselves things like “NotBannedLmao” (not the actual name cus call-out rules)
And they’ve done it multiple seasons in a row and are still getting away with it, even in previous season leaderboards their clears are STILL UP?
They’re openly mocking blizzard AND all the players, they literally couldn’t be anymore blatant, they’re straight up admitting they’re doing it and laughing at you about it
Can we please get another banwave and start actually deleting leaderboard slots from people that get banned
As much as I agree with you (I’ve been holding my breath waiting for S35 for what seems like FOREVER) Blizzard just simply does not care about D3 at this point. It is not generating $$ for them, and the player base is too small for them to devote resources to appeasing us.
They probably have 1 person from another Diablo team writing the new season preview post in their spare time, choosing the next season theme, and flipping the switch when it’s time.
Yeah it sucks. We all know blizzard isn’t going to do more than what they’ve been doing so far (which hasn’t been enough), and almost certainly they will do less going forward.
I think they only viable way to fight it is to have community-run leaderboards, where the community removes known cheaters. If (legit) players then start ignoring the in-game LB and instead use the community-run one, then things might change a little.
The obvious choice would be maxroll that already has a leaderboard up, and has an official anti-cheat stance. But afaik, they’ve done nothing to remove cheaters, and they are not actively developing the D3 part of the site at this point anyway.
So it’d have to be a new site, run by a group of community member willing to go through and run their own check for cheats. But really don’t think we have people willing to put in that kind of work for D3 at this time. We just don’t have critical mass of active people for it.
I know yeah it has been like this since ROS came out. But people the game is over 13yrs old. They haven’t really done anything about in the past. Why would they now do some thing about it???
Yes people are still mad about the cheats at the top. But they are not going to do anything about it. They are at this point just trying to keep the lights on.
Just look at what they said that the season were only going to be 3 months. What we are coming up to 4 months on this season. And you are worry about the cheats on the leader board.
Plus you are worry about basically a rerun movie too. That we already watch and done it in the past. You worry about that they are cheating to get to the top on a rerun season!!!
Even if the game wasn’t over 13 years old, it’s Blizzard. You should never “expect” anything good from them anymore, sad as that is to say.
It’s perfectly understandable for anyone to be upset about cheaters, as you said. Those same people need to ease their own minds by coming to grips with reality that Blizzard just does not care. Anyone who tells you otherwise is just spouting off PR or propaganda.
Even if one of them came in here and said Season 35 will start tomorrow, I wouldn’t believe them until it actually happened. I guarantee I’m not the 1st or 10000th person who has that little faith in the company. But that’s their fault. They reap what they sowed.
As far as I know China server is not directly under Blizzard’s control and managed by their partner over there, NetEase. Blizzard have offices at Europe region, so it’s natural that they have rented data centers all over it but China is whole different story. Correct me if I’m wrong and let’s not derail the thread if I’m right.
There are tons of people who play 8 hours a day. Tons who play 12 hours a day, and a lot who play for more than that. There are others who will say that if you have 8 hours a day of playtime, you’re a bot.
If that. China is extremely lax on cheating, despite what some will try telling you.
Please provide quotes from 2 forum members in support of this assertion.
My recollection is that you are misremembering a discussion where it was claimed that people who played D3 21+ hours per day for months are highly likely to be botting or account sharing.
Averages can be tricky because let’s say someone puts in a full 96 hours straight. That’s four entire days without a single minute’s worth of break, which is very obviously physically impossible for actual humans to do. But, let’s say they then stop playing for 3 weeks before starting up their “here’s my awesome speed run of GR150” stream.
Now they’ve got an average time played of just under 4 hours per day, which sounds entirely reasonable… except that they entirely frontloaded that time, which is actually wholly unreasonable.
I would argue that someone devoting 8 hours of playtime per day, consistently over prolonged periods of time, could be legitimate if they have life circumstances that allow for them to do so. Maybe they only work part time, or not at all. If so, that’s a LOT of free time to kill.
Oh yeah, I know, I never refer to those rare people who do these outlier things like stay up for many days in a row. I only refer to those who do, in fact, game all day long. There are a lot. I read an article over a year ago about some guy who games 16 hours a day on average meaning there are days he’ll go longer. I can’t imagine doing that but I couldn’t, even if I wanted to.
There are a lot who do play 8 hours a day easily. Some people are just lucky or… whatever word you want to use. There was a guy in another game I played who played 12 hours + daily. He lives off the state and just games and gets high. Another I knew from the same game gamed all day and made his wife work and take care of the house. He said they were of some religion where the wife takes care of everything? Don’t know if I know of one like that
