this is Rhykker bringing you an overview on
the botting situation in Diablo 3 reaper of
souls as a patch 2.3 and season four now
we're not breaking new ground here in
discussing this but people keep asking
for my thoughts on the body situation so
here they are
let's start with an overview body seems
to currently be more prevalent than ever
before in Rieber of souls were talking
about running a program that basically
plays the game for you generally to help
forum for crafting materials or greater
if he's now I do not endorse botting it
is against the end user license
agreement and so it is a bad apple
offense that said part of the issues
that we haven't seen a big broadband
ways in quite some time because of this
and because the community cannot stop
talking about body more and more people
are trying it out
do not do this unless you don't care
about losing your account just because
you've seen people Boateng for days
weeks or even months without being
banned doesn't mean it won't happen one
day
historically with Diablo 3 and some of
their other games blizzard bands in big
waves after significant intervals of
time
blizzards anti cheat tool is called
warden and basically what it does is
collect information about certain
software that you are running while
you're playing a blizzard game and send
that information back to Blizzard all
it's doing is scanning for known she
programs and then will you were sent
back to Blizzard a yes or a no as to
whether it found a cheater not we'll get
back to work in in just a bit a couple
weeks ago an open letter to Blizzard on
behalf of the community was penned and
signed by a lot of popular streamers and
top tier players and we're going to
quote some highlights and as some
commentary quote this is a message on
behalf of the portion of the community
that engages in the competitive aspects
such as leader boards and conquests of
this game you created the players who
love this game to the point where they
dedicate large portions of their free
time to playing it
want to have at least something to show
for this dedication who want to have
their names up there on the leaderboards
and want to see rewards for the
countless hours of gameplay they spend
on
03 basically if that doesn't describe
you then
body really isn't a significant issue
for you and what this means is that it
isn't a significant issue for the vast
majority of Diablo players now that is
not to say that it is not a significant
issue for those to whom it does matter
yes for all the individuals who signed
that letter as long as everyone who was
pushing for top spots on the
leaderboards it is a huge problem but
there's been a great overreaction among
the community at large with people who
would never end their life have a chance
at topping leaderboards saying they're
gonna stop playing this game because of
all the body what's happening is that
because big streamers are complaining
about body since for them it is a real
problem many of your viewers assume it's
a problem for them as well they see
their favorite streamer being unhappy so
they become unhappy and then they go
spread that unhappiness to their friends
and the community at large this general
area of negativity is being propagated
throughout the community getting people
who otherwise wouldn't have cared or
known about body to either stop playing
Diablo start body or just continue to
spread negativity look for the vast
majority of us if we didn't know body
existed we would not be unhappy right
now if you're not competing in the major
leagues does it really matter that some
guy on your team is using steroids in a
friendly neighborhood non-competitive
game of baseball again though this is
not to diminish the negative effect body
has on people who are competing for
those leader board positions so let's
read this next passage it has come to a
point where it is quite obvious that
certain high-profile streamers our body
off stream and some are even admitting
so themselves in public chat rooms these
players are viewed as examples by the
communities so what kind of message does
that send to us it sends a message that
not only is it apparently legal to bot
but that the game even requires it to be
competitive this is a very strong
argument and it's requiring a shift in
the way blizzard deals with bothers you
see body
used to be a huge issue in the past for
all players when we had the real money
auction house the robots that would
snipe options
didn't sell the robots that farmed items
as such the games economy was largely in
the hands of bothers blizzard was more
active in punishing bodies back then
because it was obvious the blizzard that
body was a problem that affected
everyone the current trend embodying has
a much smaller scope of direct effect
which explains blizzard being much more
lacks in the response but this message
is pointing out how the indirect effect
is more far-reaching that trickle-down
effect comes from the big streamers and
influences the entire community let's
read one more line still with no action
having been taken for so long
sending out a message to the entire
communities sooner rather than later
would be a good idea I strongly support
this community has always been happy to
have communication from the debts I
understand why action isn't taken very
often after everybody ban wave the bot
developers get a little more information
on how warning to text their system does
not allow people to figure out exactly
how well it works because they can learn
to circumvented so while I understand
why we don't have frequent ban waves
there's little reason for Blizzard to
not communicate with the community on
the matter at this point they
historically have said nothing to avoid
the exact situation we're in now
everyone knows about bots and is talking
about bots and trying out lots but now
we're in the situation a change of
tactics is needed and Blizzard needs to
reaffirm its stance against body warned
players that they may lose their
accounts and basically just acknowledge
what is going on and that they are
working to take care of it now before we
close here let's read a part of rebuttal
to this letter by Reddit user IRA CEO
who says they're crying because they
don't like the fact that a handful of
people that aren't streamers are able to
keep up with them they have an army of
sycophant fans feeding them unlimited
materials and keys on demand
giving them the ability to have perfect
groups twenty-four seven and are
literally being paid to play the game
22 hours a day seven days a week all
season every season
wanna talk about an unfair advantage
there's your unfair advantage right
there
seriously somebody body has no impact on
your experience for 99.99 percent of the
playerbase if somebody bots while
they're at work to push those last two
hundred Paragon levels to 800 so they
can still find groups I will take them
what difference does it make in your day
I guess it just wouldn't be a day here
though without a bother witch hunt for
some sob story about how some Paragon
level 300 guy who plays 30 hours a
season is in the top ten quotes because
bothers
irritated tone in harsh words aside he
does make some valid counter arguments
technically a top player who is a big
streamer and commands a loyal fan base
has an advantage over a top player who
has no fans to lend them help I don't
think you can quite say it's the
equivalent of body but I would
understand if anon streamer would be
irritated at the advantage that a big
streamer as so how do we leave off first
was some good news we've recently seen
action taken against very blatant body
once reimer named red X forgot to turn
off his stream before turning on his bod
and going to sleep for six hours he was
bad what this tells us is that Blizzard
will act when someone is publicly caught
in the act and enough awareness is
raised in the community
Blizzard has two ways abandon people
either by getting word into flag
accounts found bodies or doing manual
inspections with so many people
currently body getting Diablo III
skeleton crew to put forth the manpower
necessary to deal with these on a
case-by-case basis is a huge strain on
what is surely a small team when a game
is an active development Manpower's
moved over to other projects they don't
just keep a full team of people on staff
doing nothing everyday waiting for an
emergency BA crisis I doubt Diablo 3
steam has a manpower to deal with the
current volume of bothers on a
case-by-case basis
and this isn't something that they can
just half ass we can start going in and
banning some of the guilty people while
letting others slide all all the bot
problem persists when they banned people
for the Hellfire exploit they did so
after the exploit was fixed and they
knew they were dealing with a finite
number of cases do people start botting
every day this is not a problem that
they can keep up with right now so they
need to rely on warden now what happened
to the top players that are bad for
their health are exploit they were
setback but many of them simply got
right back to grinding and becoming
competitive once more so when would be
the best time for Blizzard to issue a
warden ban wave to prevent any bodies
from possibly having a chance at making
their way back onto the leaderboards
right at the end of a season I suspect
that is what we may see it would not
surprise me if say 24 hours before the
season ends we see a ban wave daughters
get purged from the leaderboards and the
legit players rise and get their glory
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