Miss Cheetah is not a mod.
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Let him think so. This is getting fun.
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first google result:
youtube. com/watch? v=IqEZ20ddfV8
I heard someone in this thread needed some tinfoil.
He’s in the EU and was threatening legal action earlier (refund) doing the same thing, moving the goal post every time you responded. I’m moving on.
I am filing a Form C to the EC about the shady practices of blizzard. Nothing to be ashamed of.
The issue is that the overlay apparently directly interacts with the game data. In order for Blizzard to allow it, they’d have to get in contact with the creator, read through every line of code to figure out exactly what it does, trust that they aren’t going to update it in the future and add any kind of malicious code or any kind of bots/cheats/whatever… etc etc
Maybe one day Blizzard will do that (extremely unlikely), but it isn’t like they can just glance over at the program and determine what exactly it’s doing and whether it’s fair to do or not. All it sees is “something is reading the data of the game that we didn’t give permission to”, and then a ban is issued
(This is assuming OP was actually banned for using an overlay, and not banned for something else)
Blizzard makes money by allowing bots to keep buying new accounts. That’s why they don’t get banned immediately.
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Someone gets it. Sales are sales. Same reason every other company doesn’t prevent hackers from buying a new copy and making a new account.
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It is just a build guide, isn’t it? What functions does it have? What game data might it extract from memory?
The only one who can prove you wrong is Blizzard, not me. Blizzard would have to choose to release that info.
Keep in mind the groups doing this are organized criminals using stolen accounts, stolen credit cards, sweat shop workers & bots. They don’t just do it for D4, they do it for any game they think they can get a profit on.
Companies will ban bots, bot makers will adjust software, the race starts again. Forever.
Someone who figures out how to stop bots once and for all without impacting REAL players is going to be VERY VERY rich.
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There are many reasons that they may choose to limit 3rd party apps creating an overlay on their game, it’s not so much about what functions it has, it’s about what functions can be added and how easily. If it’s not a reputable application, it’s not worth the risk.
I feel like the money they make off the botters is soon reinvested into developing tools to counter these bots and ban them.
I doubt they make that much money if any off the botters.
How rich we talking? I’m down to fly all over the world kicking in doors Jay and silent Bob style?
Allow me to introduce you to the Discord Overlay which Discord has the option to use. Teamspeak also has an overlay option. Overlays don’t hook into the game, they use the DirectX API to display an overlay over the screen in the same exact way that Nvidia’s overlay does as well, or Windows with its Game Bar. So I guess playing with an Nvidia card or on Windows using the Game Bar should result in a ban as well, if you want to treat all overlays the same.
ummm i dont know about you, but every bot i reported so far from the trade chat disappeared from game. Some of them even if i don’t report goes poof after a while. So whatever Blizzard is doing definitely seems to be working. Otherwise the trade chat will be like LA chat. That is what 0 moderation of bots would look like.
Well, every online game, service, or product has issues with bots so I assume if you have the one solution to bots, you would be highly in demand.
Please spare me with this chatgpt level naivity. What I said is a fact.
reddit. com/r/classicwow/comments/kx6uon/wowheads_founder_on_why_blizzard_wont_ban_bots/
The thread was made by a really credible WoW community.
It is a proven thing that blizz waits enough time for bots to be profitable. This was true even in diablo 2 times, let alone now.
I haven’t used it. From what someone else was saying earlier, it directly reads game data. I assume it’s something like… reading exactly what skills you’ve invested into, or potentially checking what level you are so that it can say “Okay, you’re level 32, at level 32 you want to put points into: Y skill”
If it doesn’t interact with game data, then I assume OP didn’t actually get banned for it and was banned for something else
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Not to mention high on the hit-list of bot developers and users.