Anything to injure you.
You replied to me first. I am not “arguing” with you in the sense that I have a basis for argument with you. What I said was simple: Mass bannings are bad.
You seem to agree.
There’s nothing else.
People claiming or reporting innocent people cannot be controlled. What happens to those people in actuality can be to some extent. But now you’re expecting Blizzard to actually use manpower to investigate, which probably isn’t going to happen until it’s been escalated enough times to get it past AI. I feel like you just keep moving the goalpost and point to your argument at this point.
What? No, no one manually reports anything. System mass bans are done based on metrics. It’s almost like you haven’t a clue what the issue even is. You just so happen to have too many of X at time Y and are banned.
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Well, first convince everyone who plays to stop doing it.
People will always seek the easiest way through. So change human nature completely or accept it as a nuisance and move on.
absolutely agree. Hence why my d4 rating is usually a 6/10. I enjoy it enough and it entertains me. but thats it.
Hah- also agreed, assos will hate me for this eventually, but we did have many many discussions on item reworks, and he was heavily advocating for it. Then LE dropped and that system was so good! now we have something comparable, and suddenly the opinion is “i liked loot 1.0 a lot more” 
I wouldnt think so either. I mean, its a big company, the main goal is to make money. There is no need to cling to these romantic thoughts of blizzard north. Gaming changed.
To be fair, if it wasn’t profitable enough, they wouldn’t be doing it. Them being bought out or owned by Microsoft just puts them under their umbrella. Don’t forget the other big part of everything that happens online. The data. If this were just pennies, I doubt anyone would be doing it for that matter. There have been gold farmers and bots for decades in video games. It must be working for somebody 
well, whats profitable for one company, isnt neccessarily profitable for the other.
As you said, it works for somebody. Just because i make nice money selling muffins, it wont mean starbucks will want to include me into their systems 
I strongly believe that if such an information ever leaked (and stuff always leaks, given time) - the damage would be way too big for microsoft or blizzard to even risk it.
There are things you can get away with if they aren’t done under your name. Before they were bought out by Microsoft, they were infected by Activision. You’ve seen the amount of “work” that goes into their games now, while the number of microtransactions and battle passes have been added. Previous versions of Diablo were much better, and they didn’t have any of that garbo. The “game” is being used as a quick-fix cash cow. They don’t care about anything to do with the game itself, other than people log in to spend money.
Well, there is noone else to blame but the consumers here tho.
I mean we knew d4 had mtx, we knew it had battlepasses. We decided to support that.
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GGG is owned by Tencent. That doesn’t mean that Tencent controls anything to do with Path of Exile, it just means they’re under their umbrella now. Microsoft most likely wanted data more than any say in what Blizzard does.
People on their forums would like to have a word with you
I doubt its just about data to be honest. the takeover of Blizzard from MS was a huge thing, especially in the EU. Wasnt it sony that did a ton of lawsuits to fight that?
But yea, i think we are starting to talk about things we know too little about. i certainly do ^^
We voted with our wallets, & as many people are seeing, elections have consequences.
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yea. i mean lets be honest. back when they announced it, there could have been a giant uproar, and people not preordering. Thats not what happened. Infact d4 was the fastest selling diablo title lol.
and from the little data we have, its still doing good apparently. So yea, as sad as it is, gaming AND gamers changed.
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Side note, considering that “noone plays d4” as some people try to put it here, rmt for sure is a heavily discussed market isnt it :P?
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They also paid actors and celebrities to push it. There are a lot of dumb dumbs out there that will buy things based off of that alone that don’t know games unfortunately. And that makes it look successful.
in the old days rmt companies would have people actually playing the game but now? all of this is automated with bots. advertising? bots. gaining gold? bots. duping millions of mats? bots. off loading materials to mules? bots. one dude can run 20+ while watching tik tok. hand farming died well over 20 years ago.
oh i know. I didnt buy the game due to that tho.
i mean did you?
When i say gaming AND Gamers changes, it also includes me for sure. Im not too fond of mtx or battlepasses myself, yet i absolutely decided out of free will to support it.
Its easy to put the blame elsewhere really is all im saying.
I bought it because I was fooled again in hoping they were going to put out a good Diablo game. They’ve had 3 iterations to learn from, and it’s like they’ve never made a Diablo game before. My decision in no way was based off of advertising or celebrities, but that’s not what I said. I said a lot of people did buy it because of that, and a lot of money was spent on it.
and then people also bought VoH, etc. People still invest into MTX.
At a certain point we have to learn personal lessons. With s7 my lesson for example was to hold back with battlepass purchases, until d4 is back to its 6/10 rating for me.
S8 did that, but i didnt buy a battlepass, as i want to see the next seasons decisions first for example. If s9 keeps the level of entertainment, i might invest 10 bucks for a battlepass. If not, well, no harm is done and ill just enjoy stuff for a while, and move on to the next game for a bit.
Yes / No.
You’re definitely correct that bots are a major component but a large cohort of these companies are still use real people because it’s easier to avoid detection and it’s cheaper. Imagine telling a college student you’d give them a sliding commission for them to do either train up your next bots or to go farm for you themselves and the max you paid them was $10 if they did exceptionally.
The electricity alone is worth that and you don’t incur the cost.
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Easy, make a game that is fun so that people aren’t willing to pay to not play it.
Once again, which online game doesnt have rmt?
Ive been yet waiting for someone to answer this question.