Seriously… the global trade economy already doesn’t exist, there’s no ladders, there’s no competitive PvP. These guys built a game that feels like you’re hitting a pay wall in progression but there’s nothing to buy. Out of touch across the board. When your game doesn’t have a negative feeling associated with “cheating” you’ve built a bad game. What’s there to cheat for? I could log in tomorrow with fully equipped GG gear and I’d still fall asleep while playing. Yeah, it’s about the journey to maximum power - except that road is under construction and instead of a 5 lane highway it’s down to 1 lane for a hundred miles.
I’ve still been following the game up until this point even though I haven’t been playing, and am looking forward to the developer talk again tomorrow. Seeing the news that they’re aware of / suppressing 3rd party software is laughable when they say “keep it fair”. Nothing about this game is fair. You’re doubling-down on the illusion of a complete product.
The worst economy-interacting mechanic was the Urn of Bargaining and allowing you to sell everything for the buffed vendor price, and then removing your blessings and purchasing the items back at the reduced value. Rinse and repeat for free gold. There’s literal hundreds of millions of gold out there injected into personal economies for this season, and that went untouched. It took you days to fix that. You guys didn’t think a season mechanic modifying the Vendor Value of an item wouldn’t affect anything else? Just like enchanting costs? Clowns. Communicate with each other, or hire people that do.
edit: I do believe using automation and 3rd party software when breaching EULA is inherently bad and unethical, my argument is that Diablo 4 simply doesn’t have a well enough established game for those negative connotations to even have an emotional response to those doing it. I skimmed over the features of THUD4 and it’s essentially a QOL package that makes the game more comfortable to play on PC. No reason anything it offers shouldn’t be in the game, aside from maybe the monster positioning system. Even then, every spawn group in the game is in a static location so once you learn them all it’s no different.
They could argue you’d get an advantage in PvP. Honestly haven’t done any yet and currently not playing but assuming it’s like all Diablo PvP and unbalanced.
I’d be more concerned with their server load since they have been prone to issues.
An open bnet “realm” would be interesting if it could be like old open bnet where anything goes.
True true. Can’t say I’ve stepped foot inside the pvp zones beyond map reveal and altars. Never been a high priority for me in the Diablo games. More something to do at the end of a season waiting for a reset, at least for me.
I do an occasional farming session in the Fields of Hatred for an hour just to get out of NMDs to unwind and blast. I’ve never seen another player from about ~7 hours in the Fields of Hatred.
What are you on about? In D3 we were ladder pushing so we obviously cared about botting. They never did anything regarding TurboHUD in Diablo 3, though. Only DemonBuddy.
Even if there was a community building component, the idea normal people just trying to relax and slay some demons would want to associate with the nutcases on this forum is the funniest thing I have heard all day.
The REAL problem is the fact that TurboHUD is a paid service since the original dev dropped the product. Anyone that profits off a Blizzard product directly throws up a big flag in Activision’s offices and they will most certainly go after them pretty aggressively.
TurboHUD in Diablo 3 was free, and Blizzard turned a blind eye throughout the game’s entire longevity.
They should just build a bot and sell it to people.
Ban them before new season.
Gets rid of a cheater whilst making money from a bot script and possible second game sale.
The Blizzard D4 Team and Management should be a lot more worried about getting a massive lawsuit on their hands for their broken, buggy, unfinished beta game they sold us, instead of wasting time on this tiny BS issue. Blizzard needs to focus on fixing and improving Diablo IV sooner than later BIG TIME, and revert that disaster mass nerf they did to D4 recently, which screwed over all D4 players in the game! It is a shame to see so many problems with Diablo IV, and I truly hope the Blizzard D4 Team and Management actually fix and address these problems before it’s too late. Blizzard can do so much better. It’s just unfortunate to see such an epic fail in a game that took over 6 years to make, only to get this broken disaster with programmers that don’t even know what the hell they’re doing, as we recently learned they are having a hard time adding more the one stash storage tab for players in D4, which is just sad and says a lot about the state this game is in. If the current D4 programmers can’t fix and improve Diablo IV, then the Blizzard D4 Team and Management needs to step up and hire a solid team of programmers and creative team that can fix and improve the game! We all got scammed into buying a broken, buggy game that is clearly still in BETA!
Again, I just hope Blizzard does the right thing for all Diablo 4 players, because right now Activision Blizzard is on very thin ice relating to this broken, buggy beta game D4 players paid for, myself included! - Thank you for sharing, Dreams. Cheers! - JJ -
Unfortunately Blizzard doesn’t pay well enough for high-end programmers. They favor more on the design teams than the engineering, and a lot of the engineering legwork is probably farmed out or even AI driven.
Whether you personally care or not, Blizzard has a longstanding history of rules against cheating and botting. At least, Blizzard reminded players of the rules before a banwave.
A level skip isn’t going to fill your stash up with 800+ 3/4 4/4 items while you’re at work or sleeping.
That cheater would likely rwt the items. People who buy the items could get banned too.
Less cheaters, more copies sold.
They can manufacture a bot problem and profit by solving it.