July 15, 2017
Blizzard share their Philosophy on combating Diablo 3 Exploits
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Blizzard outlines their philosophy of dealing with Diablo 3 exploits and issues a further statement following the Legendary Gem exploit.
Exploits and Cheats
July 14, 2017
Legendary Gem Exploiters Apparently Rolling back Blizzard’s Rollback
Blizzard’s own rollback system is being exploited to regain Legendary Gem levels.
July 11, 2017
Legendary Gem rollback and Double XP Weekend – Not Everyone is Happy
Double XP to be had by all Diablo 3 players and Legendary Gems get rolled back.
July 10, 2017
March 15, 2017
April 20, 2016
Diablo 3 Podcast #205: Ban Waves and D3 Shrinkage
Season Five goes out with surprise ban waves and community joy, Patch 2.4 pros and cons, plus controversy as the Diablo 3 team continues to shrink… Featuring Tyr, N3rdwards, and Flux.
April 17, 2016
Diablo 3: The Fifth Ban Wave and Quin69’s thoughts on patch 2.4.1
With days before patch 2.4.1, on April 13th a day after the 4th banwaves a 5th ban wave hit another followed and reports showed hit some Hardcore characters as well. Posts on reddit and on the diablo forums were a-lit with people losing access and seeing their ranks go up again.
April 13, 2016
Diablo 3: Fourth Ban Wave (Season 5)
As of the night of April 12th; a 4th consecutive ban wave has landed. Reports on one of the bot sites of the ban wave also happening. One user lost 3 accounts and is considering not botting for a while.
April 10, 2016
Diablo 3 Third Ban Wave
According to reddit and a few other places over the last few days there was a third ban wave that hit.
April 6, 2016
Diablo 3 Second Ban Wave
News on this ban wave came from reddit within in the last 24 hours again that a second banwave has landed.
March 29, 2016
Diablo 3 March Ban Waves
Within the last 24 plus hours a large banwave has landed. Reasons range from using various bot programs and T-Hud software.
November 4, 2015
Massive D3 Blog Coming + New D3 CM on Botting
Encouraging signs of activity from the Diablo 3 community management team this week. First up here’s a tweet from Nevalistis talking about a huge state of D3 type article they are polishing up.
October 30, 2015
Livestream: Botting 4 Accounts at Once
A player JDance, out to raise botting awareness has been streaming himself multi-boxing 4 different botting sessions at once all evening on Twitch.tv. He’ll undoubtedly be taken down and banned for the effort, but if you want to check it out while it lasts, click through for the embedded player.
October 28, 2015
The Diablo 3 Podcast #190: The Biggest Issues in D3
Deeper debate over the top issues in Diablo 3, as voted by the fans. Botting, no expansion, party EXP, lack of gear diversity, too few top Grift maps. class diversity, and much more. Featuring Tyr, Muggs, and Flux.
Diablo 3 Botter Banned After Streaming Botting
The issue of botting has been around Diablo 3 for a long time, but has become much bigger in recent months as new and improved bots let players cheat the system more effectively. Unlike in the Diablo 2 days, Diablo 3 botting isn’t really done for legendary items (since those drop so fast during normal play), or even for EXP (since high level multiplayer games earn it 50x faster than solo).