My (just as silly as everyone elses) theory of how they ban bots

[Botomaniac]

Most likely they're using more than one single method.
Also blizzard is filthy rich. They could pay 1-10 people to spectate random people at high paragons and still catch alot of botters. Realistically most D3 licenses are either inactive or not above 600-700 paragon so getting one botter per day each would on it's own give an impact.

Not really banking on this, or any other theory but meta-data analysis and the gap effect between casual and botter/actual hardcore players is growing.

In my mind you have an unknown fraction of a percent chance of being busted. And just like being hurt in a car crash would really suck and manypeople fear it or just accept that that is the risk of driving/being in a car it's not gonna happen to most people in their entire lifetime.

Though doing stupid things in traffic will increase your chances of being hurt drastically, being safe gives guarantee either.

This applies to botting aswell. If you are the highest paragon level in the world you can't hide it and blizz will take a look at some point, still people have botted for short and randomly timed periods and gotten banned.



TL;DR: botting might get you banned, it might not

 

[Oggy2k5]

That is crazy! I Heard, and I can actually believe this, because my dad has a friend who's wife, is married to a man, who is a cousin of an ex blizzard employee, and he said that they hire midgets to sneak into your house at night, and look through your files and folders on your pc, and watch to see if DB is running, that is why sometimes, when DB is crashed, it wasn't from a bug, it was from the "blizzard bot buster"

 

[Botomaniac]

Are you saying that the Blizzard bot buster is actually a team of stealthy midgets? You seem to have a reliable source providing inside information. Could you make a Michael Moore style documentary for me so I can better understand how evil Blizzard is and show it to all my friends?

 

[noil]

HAAHAhahahaa..

Lets make a movie about this.. will be fun

 

[joka666]

oggy it is stealthy NINJA midgets they are using, not just the regular run of the mill stealthy midgets, they can even detect me through my tinfoil hat!