Diablo III: The Problem With Spam

[Nekosan]

One of the news programs did a segment on it years back (4 corners perhaps) and the company they went to in China just had a couple of rooms that were floor to ceiling WoW boxes purchased in bulk directly from Blizz, I've often thought it;s one of those "ignore it because we're shipping copies" incidents.

Do you think Blizzard really should go over each order and try to verify the purchasing company?
Blizzard don't (and shouldn't) care whether the buyer is a game shop, gold farmer or kid in his parents basement buying 100 copies of a collectors edition in the hope they might one day be worth something.
It would be madness to try and verify every company at the end of the supply chain who have purchased a copy of something.

No, not every company, but when they receive a DIRECT order for 10,000 US boxes from China (a country that has its own client) then it's reasonable to think that somebody should think "what the ****?" at some stage. It's not like they constructed an elaborate front company or used a middle man, they purchased direct and in bulk.

[revengous]

latest patch auto puts me in the public chat

didnt see any spam while I was in it.

[Naduk]

i was sitting in general chat for about 4 hours today
didnt see any spam at all

where do articles like this come from ?

[Novocaine]

There was a lot of gold seller spam before today's patch in the general chat channel. They must have done something to squelch it.

[AzzA82]

I saw 3 or 4 ads for "gild"
But maybe they are cracking down on it, i used to join general when it launched and a few days after its was brutal spam after spam you couldn't have a conversation.

[vcatkiller]

I find it slightly annoying that it instantly logs you into chat now. I get enough inane comments from the AI characters without having the extra inane chatter from other players that I have no interest in playing with, thanks very much. I guess at least you can log off?

[Tera]

You can always just leave the channel when you join?

[Nekosan]

You can always just leave the channel when you join?

Most people can, though i guess the people with "incompatible routers" will still need to leave it enabled, seems like a bit of a **** workaround for a AAA title developer IMO.

[El_Funko]

Most people can, though i guess the people with "incompatible routers" will still need to leave it enabled, seems like a bit of a **** workaround for a AAA title developer IMO.

If it was me, I'd probably just buy a router that doesn't have that problem.

[revengous]

I wasnt aware a router could stop you from leaving a channel.

[Tera]

I wasnt aware a router could stop you from leaving a channel.

Yes, how does that work?

[Nekosan]

Most people can, though i guess the people with "incompatible routers" will still need to leave it enabled, seems like a bit of a **** workaround for a AAA title developer IMO.

If it was me, I'd probably just buy a router that doesn't have that problem.

So you're telling me that you would buy a totally new router just for the purpose of playing Diablo 3 even though your router works with every other ever made and has never had a single problem ever? There's nothing wrong with peoples routers, the game is just broken as ****.


Tera the router isn't stopping people from leaving the channel, but people with that hardware CAN'T leave the channel if they want to keep playing the game, they need the constant chat messages to keep them connected.

[El_Funko]

So you're telling me that you would buy a totally new router just for the purpose of playing Diablo 3 even though your router works with every other ever made and has never had a single problem ever? There's nothing wrong with peoples routers, the game is just broken as ****.

My router's job is to keep me connected - whether I'm playing Diablo 3, playing poker, or anything else. If it's causing problems and a firmware update doesn't fix it, then it's getting replaced.

I'd much rather pay for a new router than be subjected to an in-game chat channel.

But then again, I'm also not raging hardcore at Blizzard for a few latency hiccups so maybe I'm in the minority.

[Nekosan]

So you're telling me that you would buy a totally new router just for the purpose of playing Diablo 3 even though your router works with every other ever made and has never had a single problem ever? There's nothing wrong with peoples routers, the game is just broken as ****.

My router's job is to keep me connected - whether I'm playing Diablo 3, playing poker, or anything else. If it's causing problems and a firmware update doesn't fix it, then it's getting replaced.

I'd much rather pay for a new router than be subjected to an in-game chat channel.

But then again, I'm also not raging hardcore at Blizzard for a few latency hiccups so maybe I'm in the minority.

What if the next game you buy only works with one brand of router which is endorsed by the developers, would that be fine too?

[Tera]

Tera the router isn't stopping people from leaving the channel, but people with that hardware CAN'T leave the channel if they want to keep playing the game, they need the constant chat messages to keep them connected.

That's ridiculous. All these issues would be non existent with an offline mode.