They’re just logging on for a couple hours here and there to kill a few monsters.įor some historical context, let’s look at Diablo 2. Most ARPG players don’t even know about botting or hacking. They’re great fun! They just aren’t great for taking seriously. ARPGs have a simple, exploitable design because they are fun and casual at their core. The devs know that, and for 90% of the people who play them, botting is a total non issue. People are always going to bot in ARPGs, but that’s not to say you shouldn’t play them.

Diablo was not, and never will be, an exception. Borderlands, Path of Exile, Dungeon Siege, Titan Quest, you name it. Look at any other game in the genre and you will see rampant botting, duping, hacking, etc. There is no amount of skill that can overcome the Random Number Generator, only time. The genre’s randomized design directly rewards time spent over anything else, which encourages botting, and the simple gameplay makes creating bots easy. There’s no practical way to remove botting from an ARPG. Even if trading was bad for the game (it’s not), it wouldn’t get rid of botting. Unfortunately, the devs decided to kill ALL TRADING because of the Auction House’s failing.Īs someone who lived through the full spectrum of botting and duping in Diablo 2, I find this thought ridiculous. If Diablo 3 had used a more “grass roots” trading system, like D2 did, I think the game would have been better for it. This was masked as, “trading isn’t as fun as killing monsters, so in order to encourage you to kill monsters we are removing your ability to trade.” The Auction House was a bad idea, but trading was not. Their reasoning was essentially, “trading items encourages botting, so trading must die”. It’s pretty impressive that Diablo 3 can call me back at all, considering how it initially violated the franchise that I loved so much.ĭespite all the good that the RoS team did improving Diablo 3, they still made one huge error: removing trading. Since the 2014 release of “Reaper of Souls”, I’ve logged in each Season and had a blast creating a new character, finding the best items, and slaying demons with a few of my buddies. Diablo 3, for all its terribleness on release in 2012, has actually developed into a pretty solid game over the last year or two.

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