An overlay injects into the game in order to display itself, it injected itself somehow even if it doesn’t touch the game data, and therefore isn’t an approved application like Discord is.
Assuming they do ban bots that doesn’t necessarily mean the botters themselves bring more revenue. A lot of farmers/botters etc… can use stolen accounts and have other illegitimate means.
What I wrote:
if they ban the bots immediately they won’t come back because their business model is relying on farming gold.
If blizzard lets them roam around for a week they farm and sell a bit more gold the account is worth. Then they buy new accounts from the profit after they get banned and blizzard is happy because its a lot of revenue.
You replying to this post thought that I claim that they don’t ban them at all. At this point I have to assume you are not reading my posts at all.
Yes but most don’t or you’d see millions of stolen account complaints on the forums.
These accounts are usually commandeered due to the fact they either give up their login information or download cheats (lol) and it ends up taking their information, the guilty people you do see posting about it are usually not the brightest.
It uses overwolf, a completely legitimate overlay which blizzard has no right to even know you have it on your PC. If blizzard knows you have an overwolf overlay than they are accessing your personal information they have no right to and using it against you.
That was just one month. There were even more the previous ban wave. There are a LOT of bots who try to operate in games to gain currency/items to sell. It is a multi billion dollar business and I am not lying about that.
Very much this. There is no group finding functions in the game. Using Discord software to get groups circumnavigates this and grants advantages to such a player.
Fun fact: We don’t know why OP was banned.
Edit: I really don’t think we will, either, that program is used by many people and I’m sure there’s more to the story, if there’s not more then again, we won’t know, I doubt Blizzard has changed their policy on advising the customer on specifics.
Yeah, for both the bots and blizzard who sells them the 150k accounts every month. You claim there is a banwave every month of 150k, imagine how much blizzard is earning by letting the bots just do enough farming to come back after banning them.
You know its true, you seen the proof. Stop deliberately missing the point, no dev will pat your back for this. If this was that big of a secret I would be banned for talking about it. Dont worry.
You might want to read the contract you agreed to. One that has held up since Blizzard had online games.
Consent to Monitor. WHILE RUNNING, THE PLATFORM (INCLUDING A GAME) MAY MONITOR YOUR COMPUTER, CONSOLE, OR MOBILE DEVICE’S MEMORY FOR UNAUTHORIZED THIRD PARTY PROGRAMS RUNNING EITHER CONCURRENTLY WITH A GAME OR OUT OF PROCESS. AN “UNAUTHORIZED THIRD PARTY PROGRAM” AS USED HEREIN SHALL BE DEFINED AS ANY THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE PROHIBITED BY SECTION 1.C. ABOVE. IN THE EVENT THAT THE PLATFORM DETECTS AN UNAUTHORIZED THIRD PARTY PROGRAM, (a) THE PLATFORM MAY COMMUNICATE INFORMATION BACK TO BLIZZARD, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION YOUR ACCOUNT NAME, DETAILS ABOUT THE UNAUTHORIZED THIRD PARTY PROGRAM DETECTED, AND THE TIME AND DATE; AND/OR (b) BLIZZARD MAY EXERCISE ANY OR ALL OF ITS RIGHTS UNDER THIS AGREEMENT, WITH OR WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE TO THE USER. Additionally, certain Games include a tool that will allow your computer system to forward information to Blizzard in the event that the Game crashes, including system and driver data, and by agreeing hereto you consent to Blizzard receiving and/or using this data.
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See, this is why we have privacy rights. If blizzard is sniffing for legitimate programs on my PC then they need to go to jail. Overwolf is a legit program and blizzard has no right to even acknowledge it.
If blizzard is on a different opinion then let me hear what Blizzard has to say about my privacy.
THIS IS ALL IN THEORY AND PURELY FICTIONAL.
Let’s say in theory Blizzard bans a botter, singular. Botter goes to big spooky shady botting forums and puts a post there about him getting banned.
Other meany bad people see this, start hitting up the person(s) who created the bot to update it after they find out exactly when/why/how/what got the user banned in the first place.
Spooky meany bot devs scramble to update their software to avoid more of their probably paying members getting upset at them and doing charge backs, or just not using their service.
Day later, after a singular ban, the bot is now updated and avoiding detection as it once was, until Blizzard does their own updating.
So yes, banning in waves spaced out is probably more logical, at least from my view. Is this to make profit? That part is speculation and again, I’m not sure if we’re going to get that information out of Blizzard themselves, referencing 3rd party sites for that information is simply adopting speculation from others.
Meanwhile the same bots are farming wow for 10 years. Read the post above by wowhead.
If it touches their game, they sure as heck do. If it is your browser or personal programs that have nothing to do with D4, then no, they don’t touch those.
Feel free to read what you agreed to.
You consented to it by agreeing to the terms of service, ergo they have 100% a right to know what’s running on your PC and interfacing with Diablo IV.
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Wowhead is a good place to go for datamined information, I wouldn’t really go there for a source on banwave strategy and the alleged financial motive.
In some countries it’s illegal but sadly not here in the U.S they are allowed to due to the EULA. I wish we had stronger consumer protections.
Some people argue just to argue. I think ODD is more common than the number of registered diagnoses.
You said in this same thread that blizzard does not have an authorized list.
This means they look at every program because all of them are unauthorized.
Thanks for the info.