Quote (Knarglegarth @ Oct 21 2022 11:35am)

I feel like the same people who are saying that Blizz is incapable of mistakenly banning someone are the same people who probably complain endlessly about Blizz's "incompetence" when it comes to server issues, overabundance of Sunder charms, and things of that nature.

Quote (dannywanghere @ Oct 21 2022 11:37am)

You don't understand how they ban people. They miss many botters and other cheats because they only ban when absolutely sure. I work at a large tech company with many coworkers who previously worked at Blizzard and have talked about this.

They do not ban you based on your behavior or chat logs (maybe if you threaten an insurrection IRL they might), they ban you when they have overwhelming evidence that you ran a program they have blacklisted. They don't blacklist random IDEs or dev tools, they literally download public/paid bots and cheats and match the exact checksums. Or you modified your game files or attempted to send packets that can be validated as illegitimate on their end

Quote (dannywanghere @ 21 Oct 2022 18:19)

17 pages of BS

Probably has been said many times, but OP and everyone else who got banned is just lying. The end.

Blizzard does not heuristically ban people, you were running a program with a matching checksum that they have already 100% confirmed is not allowed

Quote (ViceRMT @ Oct 21 2022 09:44am)

They are, which is why it's so ridiculous they keep repeating it.



Care to explain why people running private bots still receive bans from time to time?

Quote (dannywanghere @ Oct 21 2022 11:48am)

Private bots can get leaked or use game hooks illegitimately in a way that blizzard can detect. I don't claim to know every method they use, but I literally work at Amazon Game Studios and half our org is former Blizzard, including my manager who I've talked to extensively about this obviously since I play D2. They do not ban you unless absolutely sure and they take bans very seriously, even more seriously than actual game development sometimes

Also, there is nothing stopping anyone online from lying. You are a perfect example of this.

Quote (ViceRMT @ Oct 21 2022 09:55am)

You know just enough to think you have a clue. You're missing any type of detection for things that don't use game hooks, like pixel bots or just sending keystrokes. There is pattern recognition and it's not all just "checksums".

Quote (dannywanghere @ Oct 21 2022 12:00pm)

You have no idea what you're talking about. Blizzard can execute code while your game is running and literally look at the processes running on your PC to look for matching checksums, it doesn't matter if your program is "reading pixels" or whatever

Like I already said, I don't know every method they use, but they absolutely prioritize eliminating false positives. You can get away with cheating and they might not catch you, but if you get banned then you were caught with overwhelming evidence

Quote (ViceRMT @ Oct 21 2022 12:08am)

I'm a relatively new player, I started last ladder season but only got around level 40. This season I've been playing a lot more and learning more about the game. For the last week or so I've been playing a Goldfind Barb and while running Trav tonight I got disconnected and found my account banned. The reason stated in the email was "Exploiting".

I've done a fair bit of trading on D2JSP and a discord server, is it possible to get flagged if I received a duped item? It's the only thing that I can think of that would cause my account to get flagged.

Quote (LL0RT @ Oct 21 2022 09:50am)

I mean... im using MH and havent been banned