10 Years of botting. Why? (Blizz games $ more!)

This was mailed to me. Pretty interesting read about botters.

Hi all! Giving you some background on D3 botting and why Blizzard remains an easy target for cheaters such as myself. I'd be happy to post ppal shots or items sold if it makes for a more interesting discussion.
I'm what you could consider a 'casual' botter. I'm a single, American botter who relies on efficiency and simplicity. In my day job, I'm a data analyst for one of the largest Japanese corporations with a base in the US. My desktops are mostly used for video editing, so they function pretty well for botting.
In the past 16 months, I've gained $8240 botting D3 with a single computer (6 accounts running simultaneously, Americas and Asia) However, the total costs have been high as well. I was able to score 22 copies of D3 from best buy @ 29.99/ea back in November. I've burned through 12, and am currently using 13-18. I use one 3-session copy of Demonbuddy, and the other 3 accounts utilize the cracked DB, only initializing after tripwire has been cleared by the legit versions.
WoW used to be my main target, but the original EQ was my first foray into botting, where I camped PoE spots with a pally tank, cleric, and necro team. I've previously written my own simple scripts based on image recognition and manual click position input. (Think: AutoIt Sarkoth Runs),
Although D3 has been far from the most lucrative game to date(that goes to WoW, tied with ROTMG), but has remained the most rewarding in terms of ROI (effort-based).
I average $6-10 from daily botting now days. Around 3 months after D3's release it was nearly $38 a day.
I trade major ($80+) items by using a dummy account, which then posts items on RMAH, which I buy through blizzard acct $ on main acct and reposts. All accounts I use are RMAH accessible, but I've cloned the email address for everyone (this can be done in ppal settings), in case they were researched during a 'ban wave'.
I used to make 80% of my $ by selling gold through online sources such as jsp, CL, and even these very forums. Now, I pool all gold on my main (collector's edition acct) and purchase undervalued rings (@1d12h) and sell in RMAH.
The last ban-wave occurred around 6 months back. I'm currently treating the situation as if there is no looming ban-wave for bots, and trading between multiple accts without dummy items etc.
Basically, if you have a single D3 account, you can grind 8 hours in human form and end up broke and frustrated; OR... you can go live your life and bot a cracked DB session, and make $2.25 a day until the next expansion or loot upgrade comes.
And, sometimes, you'll get lucky and make a $250 sale.
Peace!

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If you are planning on botting, at least exit it before you start streaming...

VoD Check out the very beginning.
Watch live video from zilianop on TwitchTV

Call him rude, call him an ass, call him whatever you want and hate him away. But, I honestly enjoy the stream (I still do). Yeah it can be uncomfortable if he's irritable and he gets snappy with Pan, but hey shit happens and they seem happier since he moved to Arizona.. But basically the back story here is that he got banned for what he claimed to be "account sharing". When he called up Blizz about it, he claimed they asked him if anyone else had logged into his account and he had said that his girlfriend, Pan, and his brother had logged into. Because he said that over the phone, he claimed that the Blizzard rep said they couldn't unban his account.

Apparently what really happened is he was botting and, more then likely, got banned for that and not account sharing.

I have a disappoint

TLDR: Don't forget to close your bot before you go on stream

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Over 600k/hour AFK!

This guide was mailed to us. I won't be releasing his script as this is what people will call exploiting. It gives you an idea how these people work though if you are against this stuff. And if you are not, you might find this interesting.

Requirements: 5 accounts. No characters required.

1 character is the "booster" - initially hosts the turn in.
1 character is the "hoster" - hosts the turn in after entering booster's game
3 characters are "leechers" - stay for the turn in and earn more gold

Shown first by iaccidentallytwink of OwnedCore!

1. Have the booster ready in the camp with Adria.
2. Have the hoster quick join from the main menu.
3. When you see the party formed in the main menu, leave the game on the booster.
4. You are now ingame with just the hoster, as if you are PLing via perma-ZK.
5. Have all 3 of the leechers quick join. Main Menu or ingame, it doesn't matter.
6. Turn in the quest with the hoster.
7. Rinse and Repeat.

I'm pushing 670k gold an hour with this, and almost fully scripted. Window positioning is important if you only have one monitor along with a few other errors, such as the "Party Locked" error, which I account for by toggling Quick Join on the character when it appears to fix the error.

Enjoy, and try to keep this a bit private.

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Diablo III Farmer makes 60 Million Gold an Hour

One gold farmer makes millions of gold per hour in Diablo III and shows you exactly how he does it in a YouTube video. This is actually pretty interesting when you think about it. No matter how you feel about gold farmers in MMOs, you have to look with at least a bit of awe at what this guy is actually doing.

This from Cinema Blend:

An alleged Chinese gold farmer has come forward to talk with Markee Dragon, a video game enthusiast who has been investigating the mass amount of Diablo III account infiltration claims. Turns out, a lot of accounts that have been farmed were due to using the same username/passwords in forums and fansites, and this particular gold farmer is making 4 million gold an hour off these compromised accounts.

With the incredible fame and popularity of D3 and the compromised accounts, it’s no surprise that someone would find a way to exploit the situation. In fact, I’m willing to bet he is not the only one farming using these methods but he might be one of the top in terms of earnings. 

The article continues:

Mr. Gold also points out that there are other hackers, farmers, botters and spammers he wants Blizzard to get rid of. They're cramping his style, apparently. Officially he calls it "over-inflating" the gold economy. He wants Blizzard to update their security protocol named Warden to weed out the small-time bots and gold farmers who are eating into his profits. He's assured that his methods are mostly undetectable for the next couple of months, but by then they will already have enough gold to make millions in real-life money.

You have to laugh a little at this guy and the fact that he openly admits to being on basically 24/7 and says that Blizzard has never said anything to him and he thinks Blizz should go after the real “bad guys”. I wonder if he will get shut down now that he has gone public with his farming methods?

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