
"In addition to undermining the spirit of fair play, botting, hacking, and other forms of cheating can also cause technical problems with the game as well as contribute to performance issues with the service."


"We've recently issued account bans to several thousand Diablo 3 players who were found to be using botting programs while playing," wrote community manager Lylirra. We obviously don’t condone the use of bots, but when you read interviews like this, you can’t help but be concerned about how players like this impact the game and how Blizzard can combat the botters.Blizzard has banned several thousand players of its action role-playing game Diablo 3 for using bots and cheating programs and "undermining the spirit of fair play," according to a post on the forums. Even if the value of gold was to drop down to below $0.50 per million I’d simply switch over to farming items rather than gold and turn a nice profit. When I’m running 8 bots I’m making roughly $6.40 per hour. My yield per account is between 300-400k per hour. This equates to roughly 10c per hour in electricity. My botting rig uses around 400w of power constantly. Once you’ve paid for your account there are no ongoing costs provided you don’t get banned. The primary reason for this is that unlike MMORPGs there is no subscription model. Diablo 2 was the most botted game ever made.
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If anything the interview highlights the problems Blizzard face with botters and the way it affects the Diablo 3 economy.ĭo you think Diablo 3 will remain a profitable game to bot?Ībsolutely. In the interview he discusses his methods, how he sells his gold and the amount of real money he can turn over by simply running bots in the game. An interview has been posted on AtomicPC with a player who is very open about his botting operation.
