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Usagi
Spain1647 Posts
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Lenwe
Netherlands757 Posts
On July 04 2012 16:56 Usagi wrote: Is EU down for everyone else? The game tells me it is down and links me to the servers status website which says it is up >.> There is server maintenance at the moment. They hope to have the servers back up by 11 CEST. | ||
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Usagi
Spain1647 Posts
On July 04 2012 17:00 Lenwe wrote: There is server maintenance at the moment. They hope to have the servers back up by 11 CEST. Thankyou. I couldnt find the ETA on the maintenance, and thought the servers would be up by the morning as they usually take less time than predicted for those. Pitty at 11 I will be wanting to watch GSL :p | ||
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ihasaKAROT
Netherlands4730 Posts
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Usagi
Spain1647 Posts
On July 04 2012 17:06 ihasaKAROT wrote: I hope the AH will be up soon again, put items on there 5 days ago, havent been able to get on the AH since :s I Didnt have many things on AH, however, and while I could get into it once or twice, selling stuff has been near impossible since people couldnt access it. Been short on gold, damn u blizz you made me dependant on your gold machine, and need money for Shen, that greedy bastard never has enough! xD | ||
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Usagi
Spain1647 Posts
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Big G
Italy835 Posts
It went up for a couple hours monday at 11PM (CEST), so there is a huuuge number of expiring auctions right now. Whoever managed to bid in those 2 hours is a lucky guy. I lost 5-6 million at least. | ||
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HolydaKing
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nam nam
Sweden4672 Posts
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skatbone
United States1005 Posts
On July 04 2012 02:34 Kenpark wrote: Dunno about Wds and Dhs but we as Wizards often swap some gear vs reflective mobs. Wouldnt be the end of the world if we cant do it anymore, but it would def make fighting reflective mobs even more of a pain than it already is right now. Yea...I swap amulets and rings to deal with reflective damage. I'd hate to see that gimped because of a change made to swapping MF gear. | ||
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Assault_1
Canada1950 Posts
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HolydaKing
21254 Posts
On July 04 2012 23:16 Assault_1 wrote: AH works fine for me Yeah, well, EU AH works again as well. | ||
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oneofthem
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
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udgnim
United States8024 Posts
On July 05 2012 00:34 oneofthem wrote: blizz is caught between a rock and a hard place here, because of the hugely diverging income between casuals and serious players and they are choosing wrong in balancing the game based on the latter. link talks about what Blizzard does to botters and how banning botters in waves is profitable for Blizzard: http://daeity.blogspot.com/2010/08/blizzard-loves-botters.html so Blizzard bans accounts and not IP addresses or MAC addresses (which can still be get around but the more annoying to get around the better) I've basically stopped playing D3 because the only thing to do is farm and honestly imo the best farming method right now is gold farming because item values keep dropping unless you hit the jackpot and find an amazing statted item. so if the best farm method is gold farming, then I'm competing against bots which farm far better and I don't want to play like a human gold farming bot so I quit. I honestly thought that the RMAH would make Blizzard be much more responsive to botting, but their anti-bot measures are no where close to adequate. | ||
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Blitzkrieg0
United States13132 Posts
On July 05 2012 01:40 udgnim wrote: link talks about what Blizzard does to botters and how banning botters in waves is profitable for Blizzard: http://daeity.blogspot.com/2010/08/blizzard-loves-botters.html so Blizzard bans accounts and not IP addresses or MAC addresses (which can still be get around but the more annoying to get around the better) I've basically stopped playing D3 because the only thing to do is farm and honestly imo the best farming method right now is gold farming because item values keep dropping unless you hit the jackpot and find an amazing statted item. so if the best farm method is gold farming, then I'm competing against bots which farm far better and I don't want to play like a human gold farming bot so I quit. I honestly thought that the RMAH would make Blizzard be much more responsive to botting, but their anti-bot measures are no where close to adequate. Have you ever played an online game in the past ten years without bots? They exist because they're impossible to stop, not because companies are lazy about doing things about them. | ||
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wwiv
Singapore182 Posts
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udgnim
United States8024 Posts
On July 05 2012 01:53 Blitzkrieg0 wrote: Have you ever played an online game in the past ten years without bots? They exist because they're impossible to stop, not because companies are lazy about doing things about them. I honestly thought that the RMAH would make Blizzard be much more responsive to botting, but their anti-bot measures are no where close to adequate. implies I expected D3 to be botted, but I also expected Blizzard to have better anti-botting measures because RMAH presented greater financial incentive for them to do so | ||
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Zocat
Germany2229 Posts
On July 05 2012 01:53 Blitzkrieg0 wrote: Have you ever played an online game in the past ten years without bots? They exist because they're impossible to stop, not because companies are lazy about doing things about them. They exist because the ban-wave strategy is bad. Just some random numbers: The first Diablo banwave was ~3 weeks after the game was released. With pot bashing bots could easily do 500k/hour. Let's say the bot needed 7 days to level to 60  Still 24*14 = 336 hours of botting. So 168 million of gold. Is selling those 168million worth a 60$ account? Yes. And if you use the same (public) bot again on your next account - it will only be banned when the next banwave is happening. So again enough time to make a profit. There's 0 financial risk involved when botting, since the account is save until the next banwave. | ||
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Blitzkrieg0
United States13132 Posts
On July 05 2012 02:14 Zocat wrote: They exist because the ban-wave strategy is bad. Just some random numbers: The first Diablo banwave was ~3 weeks after the game was released. With pot bashing bots could easily do 500k/hour. Let's say the bot needed 7 days to level to 60 Still 24*14 = 336 hours of botting. So 168 million of gold. Is selling those 168million worth a 60$ account? Yes. And if you use the same (public) bot again on your next account - it will only be banned when the next banwave is happening. So again enough time to make a profit. There's 0 financial risk involved when botting, since the account is save until the next banwave. So you're suggesting blizzard has a team of ninjas that 1984 people playing games to make sure they don't bot or something? If somebody figured out a feasible way to deal with bots in the past ten years you wouldn't see every online game in the entire world infested with bots. There isn't some conspiracy where blizzard is allowing bots to exist because they make profit off them. | ||
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Terranasaur
United States2085 Posts
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