Why are people who are obviously using bots being allowed to completely dominate the leaderboards ? There are people with 10 to 15,000 rifts completed this season alone it doesn’t take rocket science to see who is running a bot programme not to mention the amount of players trying to join clans with ludicrous amount of paragon levels and rift completes and they are always in game and never reply to a tell…
Do blizzard not want this game to be competitive anymore? perhaps they are hoping people will be so sick of the bots in this game they will play their new pay to play game Diablo immortal?
If Blizzard can’t control cheating in this game how can we trust them in newer titles like Diablo immortal? I play this game for the challenge Against real people ignoring the bots is destroying any level of competition or community in this game.
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Just add your thread to all of the other ones complaining about bots. You are 10 years late to the party.
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in some mobile games, they build in “bot” actions and if you beat a map or a dungeon, you are able to auto “bot” play it… well… watch your character just rush the map and auto attack it. Maybe since bots has been part of Diablo so long, D:I will have bots action enabled with a credit card purchase and you can just auto watch your character level up.
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Robots are everywhere.
In D3 as stated above they have been around for ten years.
The most ironic part on many sites is robots are now asking humans to prove they are not a robot. There is something very karmic about that. 
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How can the ban bots, I have to sit to play the game.
Microvision wants bots for “machine learning” purposes. How else will the future AIs learn our click click habits and dominate us in realtime?
Heh. Combating cheating is an uphill battle across the board. Can’t recall a single multiplayer game I’ve played where cheaters have not been active, going back at least to the mid 90:s.
Now, sure, there are more or less proactive developers, but cheating will always be a part of online gaming.
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Blizz usually waits till near the end of a season to do bans. That is because if botters buy the game then get a new account. They won’t have the time to get that account back on the top of the boards.
Easy Gatt,
Blizzard bans alot of people.
These bans are not broadcasted to the world.
They are kept quiet for a reason.
So relax Gatt and play the game like we all do.
They should ban bots often. Twice a week. They used to do more. I even seen streamers do so and even with reports, nothing happened.
However, leaderboards have been non excisting for me. At least from who sits at top. All I use it for, is a guidance to see what I need to chance in my build.
While I’d like them to do bans more often, there’s one aspect people seem to forget or even ignore. The big problem is that the more botters get banned, the more information the bot devs get to make their bots more undetectable. That’s why Blizzard tends to do large banwaves rather than constant bans here and there.
It’s clearly being ignored since it’s brought up every botting thread.
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They used to do more, in the first couple years, when resources were aplenty. Not so much in the last 8 when most of those resources went to D4.
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Why do you even care about said leaderboards when you know bots are at the top?
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Bots don’t need to be banned. They need their own leaderboard so they can fight endlessly over which of them is Bravata.
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Don’t the kids complain about this in every season. I wonder if D4 will have any type of cheater boards.
One can only hope not. Completely pointless.
They lost the battle against botters long time ago.
The internet lost the battle against botters a long time ago.
fify.
While i understand the programm war with botmakers and blizzards ways to detect them, there are still these “clearly botting” accounts, like having done 40.000 bounties this season already(just had one in public group). With that in mind, they could actually set up a few ppl looking at accounts in a database or even just simply the leaderboards and ban those ppl manually (like looking at the first 500 of every class or something), which doesn’t take too long.
With these over the top Numbers of playtime, bounties and rifts done(which was the point of the OP) you don’t even run into a problem of banning ppl who are not botting, besides it’s not as if they didn’t ban ppl for no reason before