08-07-2004, 10:22 AM
I am posting this and only this:
I have just sat and read every single entry in this thread. sad really.
I would like to think that I have gotten something from reading this but i think all i can really say is .... what a waste of time. I could have been doing something productive.
Well i guess i should add something...
IMO both sides are correct and both sides are wrong. As a person who plays d2 constantly and tries trading for the best i can get, I feal that d2 is far from perfect. As is any online game. There is always going to be a person or in most cases a vast amount of ppl that exploit the game and "ruin" it for others. As far as i have seen in LoD the duping is bad but atleast the items that are being massed duped are actually able to make in a game. BOTd for instance. It is possible to have a lgt BoTD that you made. I have only been on LoD for a couple weeks now but during that time I have seen tons of duped items. about 99% though were runed items. All of which are actually possible to get in the game.
Hmm Now if the items are actually able to be found in the game and the people that are wasting money or time (such as trading their other lgt items for a duped) are using the duped items in the game i really don't see how it is ruining the game for others. I mean atleast the items aren't super uber hacked like in classic d2.
Does it make others jealous that they have the duped items? Because they didnt' spend a gazilion hours looking for them? Well i say that any person that uses a duped item which they worked darn hard to get like by trading their rarer items for it, should have every right on using that item.
If sentences are not making sense it is late so forgive me.
Overall, I think duping is bad. Very bad. I hate bots. I think anyone that uses a bot for any purpose should have their acct deleted and cd key banned.
I also think that there is only one way to not deal with duping and that is by doing exactly what gekko does. Don't play with those ppl. ignore bots by making lvl res games and password games. Don't let the duping ruin the game though. Just know it is out there and I can never be stopped. But there are ways to deal with it. I think by taking it to the extremes is the only real way that duping can ruin the game. But if you are happy in your priv games and with your friends then good for you.
All this came about from a simple question lol i love it. Hmm gonna make a ww druid myself soon.
Best wishes to all and good luck gamin.
-NeoD
I have just sat and read every single entry in this thread. sad really.
I would like to think that I have gotten something from reading this but i think all i can really say is .... what a waste of time. I could have been doing something productive.
Well i guess i should add something...
IMO both sides are correct and both sides are wrong. As a person who plays d2 constantly and tries trading for the best i can get, I feal that d2 is far from perfect. As is any online game. There is always going to be a person or in most cases a vast amount of ppl that exploit the game and "ruin" it for others. As far as i have seen in LoD the duping is bad but atleast the items that are being massed duped are actually able to make in a game. BOTd for instance. It is possible to have a lgt BoTD that you made. I have only been on LoD for a couple weeks now but during that time I have seen tons of duped items. about 99% though were runed items. All of which are actually possible to get in the game.
Hmm Now if the items are actually able to be found in the game and the people that are wasting money or time (such as trading their other lgt items for a duped) are using the duped items in the game i really don't see how it is ruining the game for others. I mean atleast the items aren't super uber hacked like in classic d2.
Does it make others jealous that they have the duped items? Because they didnt' spend a gazilion hours looking for them? Well i say that any person that uses a duped item which they worked darn hard to get like by trading their rarer items for it, should have every right on using that item.
If sentences are not making sense it is late so forgive me.
Overall, I think duping is bad. Very bad. I hate bots. I think anyone that uses a bot for any purpose should have their acct deleted and cd key banned.
I also think that there is only one way to not deal with duping and that is by doing exactly what gekko does. Don't play with those ppl. ignore bots by making lvl res games and password games. Don't let the duping ruin the game though. Just know it is out there and I can never be stopped. But there are ways to deal with it. I think by taking it to the extremes is the only real way that duping can ruin the game. But if you are happy in your priv games and with your friends then good for you.
All this came about from a simple question lol i love it. Hmm gonna make a ww druid myself soon.
Best wishes to all and good luck gamin.
-NeoD