06-26-2004, 05:12 PM
they can't actually stop the botters but they can take steps that would limit the use of those programs. steps which they have never had the guts to take.
Here's an idea! Start banning CD keys of all the spam bots out there. this wouldnt be hard at all. all blizzard has to do is to create their own "bot" program that starts games every-so-often and then logs what happens. It is completely obvoius that these people are using 3rd party programs in conjunction with diablo2 otherwise they would not be able to use multicolor chat AND they are advertising for their own site, buisnesses that are making money off of intellectual property that they do not own. Which leads to the wrap-up. How do you think that these "buisnesses" create their supply? they use the same bots that they use for their advertising to do runs and stockpile items that they can later sell. if you ban the cd keys of the ad-bots it will cripple both the run botters and the people making money off of diablo2 that shouldnt be.
Here's an idea! Start banning CD keys of all the spam bots out there. this wouldnt be hard at all. all blizzard has to do is to create their own "bot" program that starts games every-so-often and then logs what happens. It is completely obvoius that these people are using 3rd party programs in conjunction with diablo2 otherwise they would not be able to use multicolor chat AND they are advertising for their own site, buisnesses that are making money off of intellectual property that they do not own. Which leads to the wrap-up. How do you think that these "buisnesses" create their supply? they use the same bots that they use for their advertising to do runs and stockpile items that they can later sell. if you ban the cd keys of the ad-bots it will cripple both the run botters and the people making money off of diablo2 that shouldnt be.