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.
Sempai wrote on Jun 12, 2012, 03:29:No, its more than 15%. 15% is just the cost to get the money to paypal. Its more like a 30% cut (on commodities).
Yet another reason there should be an offline mode for the customer, but that would defeat the purpose of their 15% cut of each transaction, and the oh so safe monitoring by our heroes at Blizzard.
This company is now run by a bunch of tools.
Creston wrote on Jun 11, 2012, 22:55:Because if its all botted and duped gold, gold will be pretty worthless and the supply will be hugely inflated (almost like real life). At some point it will max out on the maximum amount of gold an item can sell for in the AH, whatever arbitrary limit blizzard has set. I don't know what that is. Lets say its 999,999 gold per item (aka 1 million gold). If gold is selling for $1 per million gold, then that means the maximum item price would only ever be $1 in the gold AH. The RMAH would be affected by that hyper inflation since the common factor is gold. Something like that would move all the best items from the AH to the RMAH since the max price per item over there is something like $250 rather than the $1 it would be in this scenario. Any decent items on the AH would be snapped up immediately by farmers so they could resell on the RMAH for more than $1. I wouldn't sell my Radiant Star gems in the gold AH if the only place I could get anything reasonable for them would be the RMAH.
That said, would they care about the gold anyway? I can see they cared in WoW, as it was a sizable pie they never got a slice of, but once the RMAH starts up, they get 15 or 30%? I think they'll be cheering on the chinese goldfarmers at that point.
Creston
Ozmodan wrote on Jun 11, 2012, 17:25:
Lets face it, cheating is not uncommon in Diablo III, Blizzard can't seem to track all the hacked gold out there, the gold sellers are spamming channels like mad with all the stolen gold.
You would think Blizzard would be smart enough to control such at least somewhat, but at the moment it is a zoo.
Cpmartins wrote on Jun 11, 2012, 20:54:Thats only part of it. It also means they totally ignore reports. They could let the community help them and do a big part of the work of finding them (at least in WoW, in D3 its not as easy). All they have to do is check the reports and spend just a few minutes checking them out.
Two months ago while playing WoW I started noticing this person. Why did I notice it? Because every time I was in Darnassus, it'd be at the AH. So I stopped and started watching. Every 5 minutes it would leave the auctioneer and run towards the mailbox. The thing is, it'd go through that action repeating exactly the same path, and actions. And I mean exactly. a third of the way it would jump, then go a little to the left, then course correct and go toward the mailbox. Of course it was a bot. So I reported it. And then I reported it everyday since. It is still there, doing EXACTLY what it did 2 months ago.
That's how good actibliz is at detecting this crap.
xXBatmanXx wrote on Jun 11, 2012, 18:47:Ozmodan wrote on Jun 11, 2012, 17:25:
Lets face it, cheating is not uncommon in Diablo III, Blizzard can't seem to track all the hacked gold out there, the gold sellers are spamming channels like mad with all the stolen gold.
You would think Blizzard would be smart enough to control such at least somewhat, but at the moment it is a zoo.
Who uses chat channels and who would ever play in a public game!?
First thing I do when I connect is "Leave Channel".
xXBatmanXx wrote on Jun 11, 2012, 18:47:
Who uses chat channels and who would ever play in a public game!?
First thing I do when I connect is "Leave Channel".
xXBatmanXx wrote on Jun 11, 2012, 18:47:Ozmodan wrote on Jun 11, 2012, 17:25:
Lets face it, cheating is not uncommon in Diablo III, Blizzard can't seem to track all the hacked gold out there, the gold sellers are spamming channels like mad with all the stolen gold.
You would think Blizzard would be smart enough to control such at least somewhat, but at the moment it is a zoo.
Who uses chat channels and who would ever play in a public game!?
First thing I do when I connect is "Leave Channel".
ASeven wrote on Jun 11, 2012, 18:09:
But...but...but..... being online always means NO CHEATING!!!1!!1!!
Ozmodan wrote on Jun 11, 2012, 17:25:
Lets face it, cheating is not uncommon in Diablo III, Blizzard can't seem to track all the hacked gold out there, the gold sellers are spamming channels like mad with all the stolen gold.
You would think Blizzard would be smart enough to control such at least somewhat, but at the moment it is a zoo.
ASeven wrote on Jun 11, 2012, 18:09:
But...but...but..... being online always means NO CHEATING!!!1!!1!!
Fletch wrote on Jun 11, 2012, 17:29:
There is no cheating in Diablo III. The online requirement and securing of key player, game, and runtime files behind Blizzard's digital redoubt have rendered the possibility of cheating ridiculous. Be at ease, customers. Blizzard wouldn't lease you a game in which your online experience, protected by our wise and prescient decision to require a persistent connection for ALL game modes, could be usurped by cheaters and hackers. It is not possible. It was the very reason we championed for a persistent connection in the first place. We do not lie.