End of Ladder Season

[[wcip]Angel]

What's the point of distinguishing between ladder and non-ladder if you let the ladder season last for years?  The whole idea behind ladder play is that characters all have to start with nothing.  Once most of the ladder players have 3 or 4 of every item and runes have been duped such that everyone and their pets own a few BotD weapons, what's the point of even having a ladder?

If you want to keep your characters and items in a static state, don't play ladder characters.  This end can't come soon enough, at this point.

gekko

I knew the ladder had to end sometimes, but I hoped it would be after I lost interest in the game (again). I had hoped they would've made sure duping, botting and cheating in general wouldn't be possible after they'd reset the ladder (naïve as I am), so when people started playing from scratch, it would be a good cheat-free scratch, and a new reset of the ladder wouldn't be needed, as all items and players would be 100% legit.

I guess I could play non-ladder, but I want to be able to find *all* items, as well as have *all* the runewods at my disposal. It's not really important to me if other players are playing legit or not, as I seldom play with other people (up until this week, I never had; I've always soloed!), but I would like to be able to upgrade my runes, seeing as I'll never find bers, jahs and zods out there.

I'm not sure, but I think this might just mark the end of D2 for me (for this time.) I have Ground Control 2, and I have Final Fantasy VII, both of which can keep me busy until one of the games I'm looking forward to arrives.