What may come to pass - Press release from blizz regarding cheaters

[Dariuas]

"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.

Taken from Cheating in Diablo® III - Diablo III

[internalcumbustion]

I think the key line(s) is:

"Playing Diablo III legitimately means playing with an unaltered game client."

and

"Suspensions and bans of players that have used or start using cheats and hacks will begin in the near future."

The problem is that what is detectable? Complied autoit scripts that do not rely on external dlls or code being injected into the game session how could they track that? I don't believe they can. It's not like anyone is using a modified loader anymore and god help them if they are.

If they could do this then why nerf all the good farming spots? It just makes no sense.

[TehVoyager]

I think the key line(s) is:

"Playing Diablo III legitimately means playing with an unaltered game client."

and

"Suspensions and bans of players that have used or start using cheats and hacks will begin in the near future."

The problem is that what is detectable? Complied autoit scripts that do not rely on external dlls or code being injected into the game session how could they track that? I don't believe they can. It's not like anyone is using a modified loader anymore and god help them if they are.

If they could do this then why nerf all the good farming spots? It just makes no sense.

bots are very detectable if they start watching what players do. if you constantly click the exact same pixles, it becomes pretty obvious.

srsly everything is detectable, it just comes down to "does blizzard want to work THAT hard to catch people?"

with the RMAH, my thought is a resounding "yes"

be careful.

[who knows]

I think the key line(s) is:

"Playing Diablo III legitimately means playing with an unaltered game client."

and

"Suspensions and bans of players that have used or start using cheats and hacks will begin in the near future."

The problem is that what is detectable? Complied autoit scripts that do not rely on external dlls or code being injected into the game session how could they track that? I don't believe they can. It's not like anyone is using a modified loader anymore and god help them if they are.

If they could do this then why nerf all the good farming spots? It just makes no sense.

I also found that particular line interesting.
Its like they're referencing darkd3: Darker D3 Pixel Shader and Diablo 3 WASD: diablo-iii-wasd - Bringing WASD functionality and other alternative movement methods to Diablo III - Google Project Hosting

[shooshtime]

Isn't this like common sense... you cheat you get banned when they find out... if you are botting, bot hard and as much as you can before the hammer comes down. Then rinse and repeat!

[skohcl]

Isn't this like common sense... you cheat you get banned when they find out... if you are botting, bot hard and as much as you can before the hammer comes down. Then rinse and repeat!

This ^ ^ lol

[sweetgnome99]

Do you think they'd ban a player for clicking on the same spot?
e.g. lead weight placed on keyboard to chaincast a spell, farming spider towers pre-nerf

[zewt]

Do you think they'd ban a player for clicking on the same spot?
e.g. lead weight placed on keyboard to chaincast a spell, farming spider towers pre-nerf

then dont click on the same spots

[sweetgnome99]

then dont click on the same spots

I was thinking that it would be safer in terms of plausible deniability, e.g. something fell on my keyboard, or a key got stuck down and I had to rush off to work etc