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Banwave over?

JoshYoJoshYo said:
Let's see...

$3000 (RMAH) - $60 (1st key) - $40 (New key) = $2900.

Yeah they totally got me....






Oh wait a second...
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Blizz totally got you for atleast 15% + $1.00 on item transactions and/or 30% on gold sales. I think they got you good.
 
blista08 said:
Blizz totally got you for atleast 15% + $1.00 on item transactions and/or 30% on gold sales. I think they got you good.
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I see you're getting your +1's today...

I made like $3k. That's after whatever they took. I made $3k for people that want to buy pixels on a computer screen. Somehow I don't see that as a win in their book.
 
In blizz's books? They made money off you making money excepts they didn't lift a finger lol.
 
Paying developers and all the commercials and pr plus deal with all the shit storms that's been raining from launch.... And keeping track of all mad botters, including myself, who call support to get their accounts back would probably count as more than a finger, actually more than a hand...
If it wasn't for Wilson, I'd say more than a heart.. ;)
 
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blista08 said:
Blizz totally got you for atleast 15% + $1.00 on item transactions and/or 30% on gold sales. I think they got you good.
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You do realize its not 30% on gold sales right... Atleast Blizz's theory of diminishing returns applies to there fee's also... Its actually 27.75%... Since were nitpicking.. Lol


blista08 said:
In blizz's books? They made money off you making money excepts they didn't lift a finger lol.
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And while on the subject people need to realize its not Blizzard as a company that makes money from/for Diablo III.... Its a department that gets credited for the profits and expenses... And that department must appear profitable for it to continue receiving funding... So while profits from fee's/D3 Sales from the small player base of botters that gets hit ban waves may seem small when you consider "Blizzard's" profits it may or may not be when you look at just the D3 departments bottom line... Businesses stay profitable by counting the pennies after all...
 
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How involved do you really think they are with the bot bans? The customer support on their end is scarce enough as it is. I'd highly doubt they do much monitoring at all. Just set a trigger that when your accounts meets a certain amount of flags, auto ban and email :).
 
blista08 said:
How involved do you really think they are with the bot bans? The customer support on their end is scarce enough as it is. I'd highly doubt they do much monitoring at all. Just set a trigger that when your accounts meets a certain amount of flags, auto ban and email :).
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IMO, your probably right as there are numerous cases of legitimate players being banned/unbanned especially around AH flipping....
 
StrangerThanFiction said:
You do realize its not 30% on gold sales right... Atleast Blizz's theory of diminishing returns applies to there fee's also... Its actually 27.75%... Since were nitpicking.. Lol




And while on the subject people need to realize its not Blizzard as a company that makes money from/for Diablo III.... Its a department that gets credited for the profits and expenses... And that department must appear profitable for it to continue receiving funding... So while profits from fee's/D3 Sales from the small player base of botters that gets hit ban waves may seem small when you consider "Blizzard's" profits it may or may not be when you look at just the D3 departments bottom line... Food for thought.....
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This company alone (Bossland GmbH) has thousands of subscribers that bot. Furthermore, I'd say the majority bot multiple accounts and quite a few I've seen that bot 50-100+ accounts at a given time. In the recent "ban wave", it is also hard to account for the mass of players that did not report their account banned as well.

Making atleast say $2.00 a day is a very reasonable figure to estimate (It is a low figure, many make far more, many make less). Lets say there were only 2,000 active accounts that were earning this number. If you were to sell the items and/or gold, in one month alone Blizzard would bank $18,000-$36,000 on the low end. This would give you enough money to cover your accounts (and easily enough to purchase 1 more per account botting). Talking "bottom line", you are given enough room for profit and if they (in theory) flop those 2,000 accounts, they look at another $120,000 in revenue directly from game sales when they ban them each month. If there were 2,000 bots alone, they would be looking at a monthly earning of $138,000-$156,000 a month. $414k-$468k quarterly solely from the botters in Diablo 3 alone. I'm willing to wager that this is a very low ball figure.

This estimate is solely based on newly generated items and accounts purchased on battle.net. I cannot even begin to estimate the amount of items continuously circulated throughout the economy that were provided by botters like us.

I'm not concerned with Blizzard/Activision's profits as whole. I'm looking into quarterly revenues based solely off of D3. I'd say that the impact from botters is anything but small on their "bottom line".
 
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