Question about Players 8

[Hammerskjold]

I personally don't, I kind of remember there was a brief period of time when some considered it was a cheat because it wasn't officially mentioned by Bliz. But even then it wasn't a very convincing argument imo.

But it's hard to see how it can be seen as a cheat nowadays.

http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/basics/...ence.shtml

'Upping the Party Members in Single Player and TCP/IP
Typing "/players X", where X is a number between the current number of players and the maximum (8), in the message box will set the effective number of players in the game (in single player, open Battle.net and TCP/IP games only). This will increase the Monster Difficulty, Experience, and Item Drops. '