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Blizzard: A fox protecing the hen house?

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Fairberk

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First time post....but long time lurker.

I've seen numerous posts on botters getting banned but has anyone considered it may be in the best interest that Blizzard have 'botter's' in D3? With obvious inflation since the 1.05 update and more playability for the general real gamer, has Blizzard created an environment where both botter and gamer can coexist? My reasoning is as follows:

-Botters add more liquidity to the auction house
-Botters add more $$ in fees for Activisions coffers
-Botters buy more copies of D3

It all adds up to more revenue for the Activision Shareholder. On November 7th, they release their earnings. Should be interesting to listen to the conference call. I'm interested in how much D3 and the auction house are making Activision.

Just playing Diablo's advocate
 
Botters flood the market and undermine the efforts of legitimate players ultimately debasing the desirability of the game's grinding addictive nature. It is in Activision Blizzard's best interest to prevent botting.
 
botters are a very small percentage of the total amount of players, what would make them more money would be REAL players playing constantly and selling their shit. But people quit cus the game got boring, no PVP half a year into it (what a load of shit), and the market already flooded with garbage, since not many people are left, why keep botters? no I don't agree with it, they'd be idiots, no one wants to play a game they know everyone is cheating on and the company gives 0 fucks, banning is great for the economy, and also great for botters and those that don't bot.
 
Clearly, they make money off us. If they ban too many/too fast, nobody will continue doing it. The way theyre going, they guarantee more key sales and rmah fees.
 
Personally I still enjoy doing both although I have 2 keys(1 bot, 1 real). I still enjoy playing my character for real and botting. Botting for exploring new builds and looking for the best GPH yields, and auction house arbitrage. My real player for leveling, hellfire, and best gear. Fingers crossed for a LOD like expansion pack.
 
PKSays said:
botters are a very small percentage of the total amount of players, what would make them more money would be REAL players playing constantly and selling their shit. But people quit cus the game got boring, no PVP half a year into it (what a load of shit), and the market already flooded with garbage, since not many people are left, why keep botters? no I don't agree with it, they'd be idiots, no one wants to play a game they know everyone is cheating on and the company gives 0 fucks, banning is great for the economy, and also great for botters and those that don't bot.
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If everyone actually left you would be making 0 profit which isn't the case. There are still alot of casual players who's willing to buy a gear from real money auction house
 
borok420 said:
If everyone actually left you would be making 0 profit which isn't the case. There are still alot of casual players who's willing to buy a gear from real money auction house
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I never said everyone "everyone" so don't put fucking words in my mouth :) I said people quit, which they did, at least 2/3 of my friends quit and either got into GW2, back into WoW, or said "fuck it" to all of them. so yeah, people fucking quit. We still make a profit but not nearly as much as we would if the market wasn't so full of shit.
 
If there weren't ANY botters, the equilibrium price of items and gold would be insanely high. Botters drive prices down by mass producing at no cost.
 
nox010 said:
Botters flood the market and undermine the efforts of legitimate players ultimately debasing the desirability of the game's grinding addictive nature. It is in Activision Blizzard's best interest to prevent botting.
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Yes that's the long term goal but Bliz might choose the short-sighted strategy described by OP just for the next quarterly report and probably bigger bonus
 
Blizzard would never come out and say it, but botters are good for this game. This particular topic actually really interests me, as well as RMT in online games so I enjoy botting more than the next person probably for a good number of reasons beyond financial gains. There is an interesting article on these forums somewhere from an expert opinion in a court case for Bossland Inc where they talk about why bots are good for games, but that's only one aspect. Long story short in D3 bots run by players (and not companies) bring down the cost of goods, which in turn makes them cheaper and more accessible for the average gamer. Now if the existing game environment doesn't change in the long run bots will be bad because they exhaust an economy too fast with an influx of gold/gear and it will over-saturate the market, but if Blizzard adds a ladder system then it will be fine.
 
There is an equilibrium. It is unreasonable to assume they can remove boting entirely, or doing it to an extreme degree would cost them too much effort or money. On the other hand some number of botters does provide benefits to the game as you mentioned in the form of liquidity and a constant supply.
 
ManBearPig said:
Blizzard would never come out and say it, but botters are good for this game. This particular topic actually really interests me, as well as RMT in online games so I enjoy botting more than the next person probably for a good number of reasons beyond financial gains. There is an interesting article on these forums somewhere from an expert opinion in a court case for Bossland Inc where they talk about why bots are good for games, but that's only one aspect. Long story short in D3 bots run by players (and not companies) bring down the cost of goods, which in turn makes them cheaper and more accessible for the average gamer. Now if the existing game environment doesn't change in the long run bots will be bad because they exhaust an economy too fast with an influx of gold/gear and it will over-saturate the market, but if Blizzard adds a ladder system then it will be fine.
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I think it could survive under the existing environment if an actual economy existed......if Blizzard limited the amount of items and gold and only inflate when the D3 population grows, it could be maintained, otherwise, like you said, it will be unsustainable until blizzard adds a new update/upgrade/add-on.
 
Sinnerman said:
Do you guys really think that botters are the minority at this point?
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Yes, you'd be a fool not to, there's still millions of players, I'm the only botter I know out of 8-10 friends that still play this game.
 
mine did too until the updates and from the fact that i give them free shit -_-
 
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