Are we talking developers getting called out specifically for not taking five minutes to address this earlier with a simple tweet, or the thousands on leaderboards running the exploit 16 hours a day for the last week without consequence while the rest of us showing some restraint watch friends and clan mates clearing g130+?
I don't think developers or community liaisons should be called out. I don't think specific people on leaderboards should be called out because it is almost every single one.
But hopefully we can agree this is the biggest clusterfuck of mismanagement leading to the biggest live exploit that has ever been seen in Diablo and possibly every Blizzard game ever! All it would have taken was a five minute tweet on Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday - FIVE FUCKING MINUTES TO ADDRESS THIS ENTIRE CATASTROPHE - saying "hey guys, there is an unintended interaction between demon hunter and necromancer. We view this as an exploit. We encourage you not to use it and we'll be considering action asap." That message came too soft five days after everyone abused the bloody hell out of it. And Wednesday pretty much people accepted they had permission to abuse it.
I have seen no bans, no rollbacks, no leaderboard wipes, nothing. Sever exploit was fixed in hours. All they had to do was change frailty to "does 15,000% weapon damage when enemies hit 15% health and adjust the other runes and applicable skills
as well." Holy hell how long would that have taken!?
Now we're sitting on the honest group of players threatening to quit if there are not rollbacks and elite exploit players threatening to quit if they're rolled back, and several more caught up in the middle.
I understand there are a myriad of issues going on, but the DH-necro interaction should have been prioritized and a strong message should have come earlier.
I don't think blizzard fully realizes how upset the community is with this situation. It seems the message is, "Abuse the hell out of every exploit as early and as hard as possible, run google maps and bots non stop. Don't worry, blizzard will do nothing about it." At this point, I a fool, fully accept it is 1000% foolish to try to attempt leaderboards playing honestly when this is the blizzard policy.
You should just allow cheats, third party apps, and bots at this point. Change the eula/tos. After this debacle, IT MEANS SHIT FOR HONEST PLAYERS OTHER THAN A FUCK YOU for showing some character.
Pretty evenly split, of people I've talked to, 1/3 will leave the game if there are not rollbacks. 1/3 will leave the game if there are. 2/3 are going to be pissed as hell either way.
HOW THE BLOODY HELL DID IT COME TO THIS!? Even worse they knew about it nearly two months ago. lol, two months ago!!!!!
Not calling people out means the same thing it has always meant in our Code of Conduct - if you suspect someone specific is cheating, don't make vague allusions or accusations about them on the forum. It's not appropriate, and such posts will be removed and can result in the suspension of forum posting privileges.
I've posted the (hopefully) final update regarding this hotfix here. As there were issues previously deploying this hotfix, we wanted to hold off on giving the community confirmation the change was live until, well, we could 100% confirm it was live. Additional details regarding other steps we've taken are included, but when it comes to account actions issued, we generally do not share those details with the public at large.
Account actions are issued on a case by case basis and the results of such investigations are only discussed between our customer service agents and the guilty party. This has been, and will continue to be, our policy on such matters.
I understand you're frustrated. These situations aren't fun for players, and certainly aren't ideal for our staff, and we've been working as hard as we can to resolve the issue as quickly as we've been able. I'm happy to pass on feedback about the length of time it took us to communicate. I, personally, cannot do much more than that directly, but know that you always have my ear and I'm happy to take direct feedback at any time via email: [email protected]. I don't always respond there (time is money, friends), but I do regularly read everything that comes my way.
Nevalistis
Not calling people out means the same thing it has always meant in our Code of Conduct - if you suspect someone specific is cheating, don't make vague allusions or accusations about them on the forum. It's not appropriate, and such posts will be removed and can result in the suspension of forum posting privileges.
I've posted the (hopefully) final update regarding this hotfix here. As there were issues previously deploying this hotfix, we wanted to hold off on giving the community confirmation the change was live until, well, we could 100% confirm it was live. Additional details regarding other steps we've taken are included, but when it comes to account actions issued, we generally do not share those details with the public at large.
Account actions are issued on a case by case basis and the results of such investigations are only discussed between our customer service agents and the guilty party. This has been, and will continue to be, our policy on such matters.
I understand you're frustrated. These situations aren't fun for players, and certainly aren't ideal for our staff, and we've been working as hard as we can to resolve the issue as quickly as we've been able. I'm happy to pass on feedback about the length of time it took us to communicate. I, personally, cannot do much more than that directly, but know that you always have my ear and I'm happy to take direct feedback at any time via email: [email protected]. I don't always respond there (time is money, friends), but I do regularly read everything that comes my way.