I don't know what to tell you if you think it's ok to bot, do you think you're getting banned for no reason or something? It's some extreme mental gymnastics to think it's ok to bot because it's good "time management" for you. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it report worthy to distribute bots on this site now?

yep its illegal now still i had to say it for the irony heh

oh and yee, i personally dont feel like botting is wrong honestly i mean morally speaking you are probably right, but its just something i grew up with so its normal to me

b-wording was actually great time management vs risk-reward. wake up before 7th grade to play d2 and then look forward all day to come home to see what you got. there's only a few experiences in life that can match that feeling. if you've never felt it, you've missed out

This post was edited by ChocolateCoveredGummyBears on Apr 24 2023 08:48pm

yessss i remember the first time i started a bot, i watched it for 2 hours just doing its stuff but the best feeling was indeed visiting it after school or in the morning and seeing the loots

yeah, him saying it's not great time management skills is not remotely true. literally gave you 8 hours of your life back

well, more, since i had like 3-4 at a time

but yeah it was just a tool, i wasnt hurting anybody !

It's like the feeling of waking up on Christmas morning.

However highly unethical I don't blame anyone for doing it, I play the system for letting them do it.

highly unethical lol ffs man, it's d2 not church service

This post was edited by ChocolateCoveredGummyBears on Apr 24 2023 09:09pm

It's subjective sure, like the civilizations of the past didn't have that much of a problem with genocide, public executions, and burning people at the stake but today we tend to think of it as not very ethical yeah.

Blizzard should have IP and hardware banned all the bad actors but they didn't care enough about their game to do that so here we are.

Thankfully this kind of exploitation is a lot less tolerated today, look at what happened to Lost Ark, a couple content creators screamed about all the bots and everyone started quitting, playerbase is down to like 80k "players" from over a million.

i mean they did put some $ into developing warden which helped a bit. but it's just so easy to get a new ip, buy a new cdkey, bypass "hardware" bans (virtual machines, etc). it really has no effect. try to view bots in d2 as cars when you're driving. sure, there's a ton of them, but if everyone is going 60 mph, you're still gonna get to your destination regardless. yeah, traffic jams happen every now and then, but it's just part of life and traffic jams will always exist. similar to how bots will always exist in an online game, especially if there's $ to be made


regarding genocide, that's always been wrong...

don't let bots impact you that much. just enjoy the game for what it is. if you let bots affect you, it's the same as yelling at every car on the road when you're driving. calm down, relax, and realize not everyone is out to get you