• Last warning from Blizzard?

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    HI5
    Published on 06-11-2012 05:32 PM
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    Today Blizzard did something unusual - warning for the Cheaters was posted on Diablo 3 community site, which is obviously uncommon event. What does it means for botters? before we say anything, lets read the original news:

    Blizzard Entertainment has always taken cheating in any form in Blizzard games very seriously, and that's no different for Diablo® III. If a Diablo III player is found to be cheating or using hacks, bots, or modifications in any form, then as outlined in the Diablo III end user license agreement, that player can be permanently banned from the game. This means that the player will be permanently unable to log in to Battle.net® to play Diablo III with his or her account.
    Playing Diablo III legitimately means playing with an unaltered game client. Doing otherwise violates our policies for Battle.net and Diablo III, and it goes against the spirit of fair play that all of our games are based on. We strongly recommend that you avoid using any hacks, cheats, bots, or exploits. Suspensions and bans of players that have used or start using cheats and hacks will begin in the near future.
    According to what they've said, we could probably jump to the conclusion and say that they already have huge list of flagged accounts, and this is last chance for botters / cheaters to stop doing what they're doing, but is it really true?

    Weird thing is that the warning was actually given, which leads us to question: why would Blizzard want to save botters from being banned? there are few possibilities:

    1. This might be just a fake warning triggered by Blizzard acknowledge of amount of botters and gold sellers.
    2. This is a real thing, but it turned out the number of botters in D3 is big enough to make huge impact on the number of total players (lets say 30% of total players in thhis example).
    3. Nothing is relay happening, and Blizzard just want to calm down regular players complaining about cheaters.

    Which one of these possibilities is real? sadly, we have no idea... Till anything happen we can only play guessing game.
    This article was originally published in forum thread: Last warning from Blizzard? started by HI5 View original post
    Comments 8 Comments
    1. Felheart's Avatar
      Felheart - 06-11-2012
      I'll guess the percentage is so high, they would lose a lot of income. So yeah, money before everything else as usual
    1. Rained's Avatar
      Rained - 06-12-2012
      Banwave in progress atm.
      Lots of hellbuddy driven accs are banned
    1. ccplz's Avatar
      ccplz - 06-12-2012
      Why did they warn us?
      Simple.
      Annual pass.
      Many of the accounts have not completed their annual pass duty yet.
      If you get banned on diablo,there's no reason for you to keep paying for the annual pass.
      Meaning that if such a big percentage got banned,activizzard would lose a massive amount of money from cancelled WoW annual pass subscriptions.
      But that's not all.
      Cancelled wow subscriptions,means lower Subscriber numbers,which in turn means,Unhappy investors.
      If we know something about Activision-blizzard,it's that they love money.
      In order to keep the money rolling in,they have to please their investors and in order to keep the investors happy,they must maintain a high subscription number.
      So no,blizzard shows no tolerance towards botters,and never will.
      They're just afraid of the chain reaction that will be caused by a massive banwave.
    1. Felheart's Avatar
      Felheart - 06-12-2012
      I'm pretty sure the ladt warning is because of the introduction of the real market AH tomorrow. They probably got a big list and will ban them before the launch of the real money auction house so they can't make a profit of the income from bots etc
    1. Khayzard's Avatar
      Khayzard - 06-16-2012
      Let's say that a few Billion golds got botted, let's say a million with sell for 5$, let's say blizzard gets 1$ per million sold, let's say banning all the botters would cost blizzard thousands of dollars if not more, we have to consider that too
    1. rayden54's Avatar
      rayden54 - 07-05-2012
      I know this is old news, but I really doubt this was a warning. Rather, it was a justification. Blizzard announced their intention to ban botters so that when the banwave went through, people wouldn't panic. Up to that point, it was easy to convince everyone that the "online-only" requirement was just DRM. It isn't. DRM is just to prevent piracy. This gives them the means to force compliance.

      Remember that you might buy Diablo 3. But, you don't own it. Blizzard does. They can take it away at any time for any reason. But, by associating bans with "cheating" they waylaid any argument that they essentially stole their games.
    1. Jakeyass's Avatar
      Jakeyass - 08-16-2012
      YOU SONS OF BITCHES I ****ING GOT HACKED TWICE BY YOU ***** ASS ****ERS I WILL ASS **** YOU IN PRISON AND THE WARDEN WILL BE ALRIGHT WITH IT, DROP THE SOAP MOTHER****ERS. LOL XD you fags want to hack someones hard earn money because you've never earned anything in your life. You guys need to cut your throats and jump off a bridge.
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      Jakeyass - 08-16-2012
      >: | ........ I hate you all.