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Digideus #257
PVPBANK spam, bots and breaking license agreements(1)Category: Technical SupportAugust-23-2013 9:12 AM PDT (9 years ago) Go to Blizzard forum post
I noticed that ever since I used the auction house (to sell excess essences and buy gems) that I have been getting excessive friend requests from PVPBANK.

A quick look on their site shows that they are circumventing the AH and offering to sell gold, items and power levelling outside the D3 client.

More worrying, they are offering CD keys and a quick search on google shows that there are dedicated sites out there with instructions on how to run D3 bots specifically to circumvent the AH.

Being that I was a Diablo 2 player since its release and being fobbed off with excuses about not being allowed to join the D3 community on BNET without a valid D3 CD key for this very reason, im a little surprised that Blizzard havent done anything about this. PVPbank are clearly botting and selling items outside of the AH. surely this goes against the license agreement all users agree to when they sign up to play D3?

It seems a minor annoyance to users with the amount of spam they create in our friend request inbox, but potentially this a massive problem and I dont want to see D3 go the same way as D2 when you couldnt join open games without getting so much spam that the game became unplayable.

What do blizzard suggest we do? Should we be reporting these people for botting? block communications? Ignore them?
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Prokkar
PVPBANK spam, bots and breaking license agreements(2)August-23-2013 10:24 AM PDT (9 years ago) Go to Blizzard forum post
Hello,

Thank you for your report.

If you suspect that someone is botting, please report them in game.

We're unable to process such reports on the technical support forums.
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