Quote from LinkX
Basically, like it has been said before, duping and hacking will get to be common on Diablo 3 on the Battle.net realms.
The only thing that might help is, as Scyber said, B.net 2 is a bit better then B.net 1. Other then that, the only reason why it's online is for DRM.
The main reason why WoW is so secure when it comes to duping is that, again as it's been said before in this very thread, all the items have an individual item code. If Diablo 3 does that, I don't see Duping to be very common, but I don't see Diablo 3 having that. :/ It would be nice if it did though!
It's been said before by people who have absolutely no fucking clue how a proper server/client architecture works, nor have any insight into what it takes to actually dupe items. All item code + data on the server == every item that exists gets a unique hash/identification data == duped items are either immediately culled by the server, or get logged + flagged for CS investigation. The chances of dupes are slim to none, and if any do emerge, you can be pretty damn sure that they will be fixed promptly.
Botting is another thing entirely. I have no doubt that people will attempt, and succeed, to make bots. It's not possible to stop that kind of developement. Fuck, there are tons of free software you can use to make bots. Here's a random one you can use: http://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/
The thing is, these bots are probably going to be shitty. You think people are going to be able to make D2NT quality bots that can MF every TC87 zone with a hammerdin in 15 minutes? Not likely, and if they do, they can probably expect a swift kick in the nutsack from Warden, or a ban later.
You guys may think that Blizzard doesn't give a fuck based on what eventually became of D2, but you are all quite dilusional if you think Blizzard has spent any significant time or resources to D2 since.. 2005? They take keeping their games secure extremely seriously.
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