Diablo III in-game hacker reporting tool incoming

Amid accusations of being "seven months too late", Blizzard has confirmed that it is developing a tool allowing Diablo III gamers to submit hacker reports while in-game. The news comes as the developer reveals it has issued account bans to "several thousand" Diablo III players, found to be using bots in order to progress through the action/RPG.

Stephanie Johnson, Blizzard Community Manager, broke the news via forum post:

In addition to undermining the spirit of fair play, botting, hacking, and other forms of cheating can also cause technical problems with the game as well as contribute to performance issues with the Battle.net service. To learn more about our exploitation policy for Diablo III and how it may affect your gameplay, please visit our official support site.

In response to the community backlash that the bots and hackers have been around since the beginning, ruining the game for everyone, Johnson replies that "this isn't our first rodeo," explaining that Blizzard has been "actively monitoring" the game for inappropriate / exploitative behaviour since launch. Apparently, the studio has just been keeping the whole process under its collective hat - something Johnson reports the team is "working to change and improve upon going forward," following requests for more transparency.

There is no release date thrown around for the new reporting feature, which will send reports of untoward behaviour directly from the game client, but keep an eye out for it in a future Diablo III patch.

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Article Details

• published: December 18th, 2012
• by: Jessica Citizen
• in: Company: Blizzard, Game: Diablo III, Lylirra, Stephanie Johnson
• comments: 1

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