Diablo® III Players Banned

[Ohio Joe]

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5740846683

The link goes to Blizzards Diablo III forums. It's short and basically says several thousand people have been suspended or banned (does not give any exact numbers) for botting or hacking.

My first reaction was... There you go, another reason not to have mandatory Battlenet connection, now these people can't play the game they bought... I then smoked a big bowl and thought about it for a bit... And you know... I'm ok with this... And I'll explain why.

D3 has been a loooong awaited game, and one followed pretty closely. It was known well before the game came out that it was going to require you to be connected to Battlenet in order to play at all. I don't like that aspect of the game, I seem to recall going off about it more then once Regardless of what I think about it, I knew full well what I was agreeing to and since I am also remotely familiar with online gaming, I knew that any type of cheating would be very much frowned upon.

Cheating.... Cheating makes a lot of people sad. The people that want to try and make money off the auction house are sad, the legit players are sad, the people that want to cheat but don't know enough to find the cheats early are sad, the elitist old bastards that never cheat because they have some mis-guided notions on how things should be (This is my category ) are sad, the newbies to gaming that feel like something is wrong but are not sure how or why they should care are sad... Just because, and also all the Blizzard people are sad because they look bad. So many sad people... Cheating sucks.

Cheating... It has just started. Blizzard has always been very hard on cheaters and the people that like to write cheats also like to put them where they will cause the biggest disruption. These things do not get out accidently... Once it is out, lots of people know very shortly as the same godly items keep getting duped and spread about... But duping is not the end, it is just the start. PK'ing (Player Killing) will happen. I hope Blizzard pulls out the ban hammer when that one shows up as well.

Taking all this into consideration, I feel pretty confident that the people who were banned knew full well what the results of their actions could mean. It would take an awful lot to convince me that someone was able to figure out how to both get and use a cheat and yet not know that there could be a penalty for doing it.... I'm just not feeling any sympathy for anyone banned.

[Whisp]

1. well that is good news

I would have liked to have a single player offline option as well, but if it shuts out these assholes, I am okie dokie with internet only access.

I bet most of the constant baby wah wah bellyaching on the general forums at battlenet are these little felons. ha!

[sakabatou]

2. I swear, D3 needs an offline single-player mode.

[demguy_5692]

5. I agree 100% with you on that.

[windwolf]

3. d3 screwup

We have several computers running off a router here, one botted, and all were banned. This is not a good thing for blizzard, as we will not buy another game to play. I think it was a money grabbing scam to resell games, who's to say if we have no bots on they wont do it again??

[sakabatou]

6. So banning is done through router?

That doesn't discriminate.

[DainBramaged]

8. Shold have spoofed your IP........but then again, too late for you.

[Posteritatis]

4. People getting banned for violating TOSes they agreed to. Imagine! (nt)

[DainBramaged]

7. 250 total hours played across five characters, and I grow weary of playing

replay value is horrible. Even auction buying and selling sucks because 10 items at any one time for entire account, and it's not enough, plus the auction sorting function is very limited.


It's a shitty game, and ALL of my friends including those on DU have reduced their playing time or two who have quit altogether and vowed to ignore Blizzard forever.


Its a soggy old sponge that stinks. Why would anyone think it's woth hacking?

[Evoman]

9. I have never played ANY game for 250 hours. I would say a game you play that long has a pretty good

replay value.

[DainBramaged]

10. Thousands of hours World of Warcraft and Guild Wars

D3 is miniscule in time spent.


I still play Sim City 4 10 years on, probably a couple hours a week. Used to be couple hours a day until 2007

[Evoman]

11. True, but Diablo 3 isn't a MMO. I don't think it was ever meant to be, and you don't have to pay

every month.

I can understand that you expected more, but 250 hours for 60 bucks isn't that bad.