[Updated] Season 19 Abuse of Game Mechanics

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RE cheating: while it’s commendable that you want the game to be a fair experience, have you considered fixing your own programming instead of banning yet more players?

A patch or two ago, you acknowledged that AoV’s Fist of the Heavens was malfunctioning at times not working as intended. You dismissed the whole thing in one sentence that basically said “to be fixed at some undetermined future date”.

In the meantime, when it comes to banning people for exploiting your mistakes, here you have a whole glamorous page of blue ink.

I think you have your priority hat on backwards.

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If someone is gracious enough to let me borrow a computer. I could find the bugs in 30 minutes. I have all classes to lvl 70 without out using bots cheats or hacks. what I usually do is do a clean hero and set the settings to a higher difficulty rating and gear up that way. usually orange gear drops faster and I gear up as I go. so let’s say normal is easy mode I exit to menu and raise the difficulty to let’s say tier 2 or 3. not hard or expert even higher. I usually can just speed farm gear without even using vendors. the gear from monsters or mobs are even better than vendor blue or yellow. items. How or why anyone uses addon’s or bots is beyond me. I actually went to blizzard blizzcon and met with the game designer of Diablo 3 and he has verified my account. I don’t work for blizzard yet my account is the highest that even a game designers is using. my account diablo 3 beta. I usually help players level but I don’t cheat with crap that not already made available in game. I tend to do solo work. being autistic irl makes me avoid people in game. not usually my thing I only started playing because a classmate I went to school with played Diablo with her family and I was in a clan with her. Her computer broke and I went solo bouncing from one clan to another helping any clan member in need of assistance. I beta star craft, world of Warcraft and diablo 3. My games I’ve played are red alert very first game ever than I switched to StarCraft, StarCraft 2 wings of Liberty, world of Warcraft, diablo 3, hero’s of the storm, hearthstone and overwatch. Other games destiny 2 and call of duty on the platform I will say my record was not spotless on forums. not in the slightest. however if it means to make the game better I will log in and I usually can spot a botter or hacker mighty quickly. gaming is my passion in life.

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Thank you Blizzard for handling the exploits so quickly this season.
Thank you for also taking care of some of the blatantly obvious cheaters.
Now if we could only address the rest of the cheaters using 3rd party software like turbohud and bots, D3 can resume as intended.
Cheers!

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This is good. Abusing game mechanics is bad.

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*fixed ……………………………………

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Only the diablo 3 community would scream from the rooftops about wanting cheaters/ exploiters banned etc and complain about it when they finally do it…

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Actually it’s pretty common these days it seems on most forums. It’s one of those 'Damned if you do, Damned if you don’t" things.

I have been guilty of getting caught up in inconsequential things in the past. Now I just go ‘Pfffttttt…." and walk away because it’ is not worth expending the energy that can be better spent on something productive. I make a statement as we all do with our opinions. If it is taken onboard, great. If it is dismissed, disliked, ignored or anything negative I could not care less. People these days seem to spend more time complaining instead of looking for what could make their life better. Welcome to the 21st Century.

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Warnings lol.

Outright account deletion is appropriate.

Blizz needs a ZERO TOLERANCE on this kind of behavior.

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I dont get what you mean by pandemonium.
Is power leveling againat the rules? Playing with friends that are much higher level?

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Haha this post is hilarious. N00bmaster chief of keef

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If there is no real action against cheaters soon this will turn out to be the biggest troll thread of 2019 and Blizzard will look like the biggest cheater out there.

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One thing is for sure. Drops suck. Wasting my time playing. I remembered you promised us that playing Diablo III will be rewarding when you guys removed the store. Broke your promise.

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Play on any difficulty above Normal and you might notice improved drops…

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It was more rewarding.

No, they didn’t.

I don’t know about you, but I remember some of my best Weapons during the AH days had ~500 DPS. After Blizzard removed the AH I began finding Rare Weapons with 1,200 - 1,500+ DPS.

You have just proven that: No matter what Blizzard gives us, eventually players will demand more. And… at the same time, accuse Blizzard of breaking their “promise”.

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Hello everyone!
Small warning, my post will be a little fast paced…
To program something, while in a team of people, as complicated as making a game from scratch, makes it extremely hard to be able to spot some wrong coding in an huge stream on coding languages! Especially if there is a Dead Line to be met and SEVERAL people working on different parts to be able to let the game be done, hopefully, before Dead Line!

Naturally over time there are several bugs popping up, quite obvious in my eyes. Unfortunatly in many Massive Multi Player Online Games, there will be some who will find some “beneficial” bugs and exploit them to absurdum.
Can be some glitch, a way to install Bots and other things, don´t report the “beneficial” bug since it seems too good to get fixed! That destroys so much!

Here is an RANDOM Example*:

You just started a new character, know that if you go to, for instance, Southern Highlands! There is a glitch that makes enemys spawn if you hit a certain group of trees and bushes a number of times.
This bug seem to drop materials, and might even get 2-3 goblins to spawn after each other at that place, A farming place.
This is a Bug that you could find on other forums and that is why you know of it, or a friend tipped you about it.

*This example is completely made up by me! I am absolutley oblivious to exploits/bugs in D3! I love this game and it should get some more interesting content! Like more of the mysterious lore that some of the classes that are mentioned throughout D3, D3: Reavers of Souls and suddenly the appearance of the Necromancers and the whatnots that has happened there!! excited (Currently playing through Story Mode with a friend to knock on a certain Scythe wielding guys door, since we are very close to finishing the story)

Thank you Diablo 3 Team for such enormous dedication to record NEW dialogs for different sidequests! I barely buy online expansions, ok…I admit…some mounts ‘n’ minipets for WoW.

But not FULL expansions. I am a collector and I like my Collections physical!

Even if the last physical Collector’s Edition from WoW was MORE than a HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT! insert sob of regret I never wanted DLC soundtrack, the whole box filled with a hard plastic cover revealing the coin, underneath it: artbook, not much else. At LEAST from Wrath of the Lich King until Legion the Collectors book-like boxes where worth the money! The thing that I am wanting my hands on is the Diablo 3 Collector’s Edition and WoW Burning Crusade. But Diablo 3 Collectors Edition would be what is missing next to my Reaper of Souls Collectors Edition! ^^

Necro is the Class where I really felt like I got to play the class I wanted. Sure the Wizard works, but I am all about FIRE AND DESTRUCTION with mine.

The Necromancer might have revived many fond memories from the first Guild Wars, where I played Necromancer. Plus Necromancer is quite the badass! ^^ Thank you again!

Coffee, snacks and I wish you a good hunt on those fixes!

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Not if people read it slowly…

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To fast for me,
SLOOOOW DOOWWWN please :turtle: I can’t read that fast. :sunglasses:

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Well said… my thoughts also.

In the same boat… I used to like competing, and have been able to at least hit the top 100 several seasons, but as a solo player mixed in with cheats and MP built characters, there is no point in even trying to go further.

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This topic should be used to talk about cheating… not general discussion. And I forgot… Sorry.