It's nice they try and clean up the game environment it's not so good that they use a proven to fail bot to find boters and cheaters. You can look at it this way, the ones that aren't cheating can just post a ticket to Blizzard and get there account. Sometimes if how every answers the ticket is willing to look at there account to see if they really did cheat or bot (they use to keep month long logs of account active don't know if they can now might just be anything there hunter bot tags). You could look at this way, they do nail allot cheaters and boters around 99% (if you believe the Blizzard rep's, it does sound plausible to me unlikely but plausible) of what the hunter bot finds (since it's being updated all the time now according to Blizzard) are legitimate cheats/bots.
I can remember when they first revealed they where using a hunter bot. It sounded like such a great idea, clean out the bots and cheats. Then about a month after there first hunter bot ban list when into effect almost hafe those ban hadn't done anything to desire the ban. Blizzard undid all the bans the hunter bot issued but kept it running. They refined the hunter bot over a year and then had it make a list again. The second time almost everyone the hunter listed for banning was ban. They went over it's list one account at a time before issuing the bans. They don't go over the accounts anymore because they've refined the hunter bot to be almost flawless (nothing is prefect).
I'm sure they're others ways to look at the mass banning but these two , in my option, are the most base and prominent. Ban hammer it's a good thing... unless your really unlucky.
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Not happy about having to plan an encounter based on if there's a boss or champions in the pull because of loot check lag spikes. Don't know if anyone else has had this issue. When I was really trying to like D3 I noticed every time I had champions or hero mob pulls I'd get a lag spike then the server would catch me up. Not a big deal on normal the hero or champions would drop like flies. On nightmare and beyond it was just horrendous. I'd have to click like mad to make sure my toon would run way like a scare little girl when every I encountered champions or a hero because when the lag spike hit for the loot check I'd be nearly if not dead when it does the catch up. If they where desecration champions I'd almost always die during the lag spike and would have to suffer through it repeatedly. I play to inferno but I just could take anymore.That had been my play experience since the patch Blizzard said would fix most lag issues but before this mass banning.
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by Mortimer82 (746766) Alter Relationship on Wednesday June 13, @04:38PM (#40314151)
Cool story Mr Anonymous Coward. Believe whatever conspiracy theories that make you feel better about yourself, but fooling yourself into believing this is on Blizzard's side will not stop you getting hacked in the same way the next time you play any online game in which gold sellers can make a profit off hacking accounts.
Great job with the copy paste key.
At no point was any kind of conspiracy stated or implied. I'd have to guess you may be botting replies as you've used this one repeatedly. My names not tagging on my post as I didn't notice I wasn't logged in (by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 13, @04:29PM (#40314053)). I lurk slashdot but the BS you where tossing around I just couldn't let stand. On an added note I didn't buy D3 it was bought for me by my brother. I had stopped supporting Blizzard products a long time ago, not to long after Activision toke over the mismanaged company. Blizzard had the gaming end nailed down but not the business end. Now they have the business end nailed down under Activision but the gaming end is going to pot and fast.
To be clear I didn't not blame Blizzard for the first time I was hacked because I never could figure out how it happened so I take blame for it. (I can't figure it out chances are it's something I did and didn't realize) The second time is all on Blizzard since my account was never logged into they just grabbed everything through the AH it's self. They've supposedly fixed that hole when they brought the gold AH back online
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It's nice they try and clean up the game environment it's not so good that they use a proven to fail bot to find boters and cheaters. You can look at it this way, the ones that aren't cheating can just post a ticket to Blizzard and get there account. Sometimes if how every answers the ticket is willing to look at there account to see if they really did cheat or bot (they use to keep month long logs of account active don't know if they can now might just be anything there hunter bot tags). You could look at this way, they do nail allot cheaters and boters around 99% (if you believe the Blizzard rep's, it does sound plausible to me unlikely but plausible) of what the hunter bot finds (since it's being updated all the time now according to Blizzard) are legitimate cheats/bots. I can remember when they first revealed they where using a hunter bot. It sounded like such a great idea, clean out the bots and cheats. Then about a month after there first hunter bot ban list when into effect almost hafe those ban hadn't done anything to desire the ban. Blizzard undid all the bans the hunter bot issued but kept it running. They refined the hunter bot over a year and then had it make a list again. The second time almost everyone the hunter listed for banning was ban. They went over it's list one account at a time before issuing the bans. They don't go over the accounts anymore because they've refined the hunter bot to be almost flawless (nothing is prefect). I'm sure they're others ways to look at the mass banning but these two , in my option, are the most base and prominent. Ban hammer it's a good thing ... unless your really unlucky.
Off Topic:
Not happy about having to plan an encounter based on if there's a boss or champions in the pull because of loot check lag spikes. Don't know if anyone else has had this issue. When I was really trying to like D3 I noticed every time I had champions or hero mob pulls I'd get a lag spike then the server would catch me up. Not a big deal on normal the hero or champions would drop like flies. On nightmare and beyond it was just horrendous. I'd have to click like mad to make sure my toon would run way like a scare little girl when every I encountered champions or a hero because when the lag spike hit for the loot check I'd be nearly if not dead when it does the catch up. If they where desecration champions I'd almost always die during the lag spike and would have to suffer through it repeatedly. I play to inferno but I just could take anymore.That had been my play experience since the patch Blizzard said would fix most lag issues but before this mass banning.
It seems that my reply is not displayed connected to the right post the post I replied to is this: by Mortimer82 (746766) Alter Relationship on Wednesday June 13, @04:38PM (#40314151) Cool story Mr Anonymous Coward. Believe whatever conspiracy theories that make you feel better about yourself, but fooling yourself into believing this is on Blizzard's side will not stop you getting hacked in the same way the next time you play any online game in which gold sellers can make a profit off hacking accounts.
Great job with the copy paste key. At no point was any kind of conspiracy stated or implied. I'd have to guess you may be botting replies as you've used this one repeatedly. My names not tagging on my post as I didn't notice I wasn't logged in (by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 13, @04:29PM (#40314053)). I lurk slashdot but the BS you where tossing around I just couldn't let stand. On an added note I didn't buy D3 it was bought for me by my brother. I had stopped supporting Blizzard products a long time ago, not to long after Activision toke over the mismanaged company. Blizzard had the gaming end nailed down but not the business end. Now they have the business end nailed down under Activision but the gaming end is going to pot and fast. To be clear I didn't not blame Blizzard for the first time I was hacked because I never could figure out how it happened so I take blame for it. (I can't figure it out chances are it's something I did and didn't realize) The second time is all on Blizzard since my account was never logged into they just grabbed everything through the AH it's self. They've supposedly fixed that hole when they brought the gold AH back online