Call to Arms: The Petition for Safe Muling in Diablo 2

Posted 15th Nov 2008 09:08 PM by Medievaldragon

Our german collegues, InGame.de, started a very plausible petition for the Diablo III team to motivate them to think of methods to replace mulling in Diablo 2 via patch. For Diablo III, this was already discussed in the Invitationals (WWI) and Blizzcon 2008, however Diablo 2 will be around for a while with no viable way to exchange items between alternate characters. This petition is a good way to get the community around the world together as a single voice.  Diablo 2 needs this feature. In order to sign the petition you must register and sign in.

Dear Blizzard Entertainment,
Dear Activision Blizzard,

We all have been playing Diablo, Diablo II and Diablo II: Lord of Destruction for many years, and really enjoyed travelling through this atmospherical fantasy world, experiencing the adventures versus the prime evil with different kinds of characters. We also want to thank you for supporting us with patches and new challenges all the time: we really appreciate the time and effort Blizzard Entertainment put into responding to our requests.

As the lately ban of 350000 Accounts showed, you still care about cleaning the Battle.net from cheaters and hackers. But that ban showed something else as well:

The community wants a safe method to transfer items from one character to another. We did this in the past by starting several instances of Diablo 2 via a modified d2gfx.dll and it was at least tolerated for several years. We disabled the check for running instances in good faith that it is just a technical measure to protect slower computers, not an anti-cheat-device, because running multiple instances is possible with more than one user account as well as by simply owning multiple computers.

Since you started banning people for using this method, it is no longer possible to transfer items between different characters of the same player easily.
As collecting Items is one of the main reasons to play Diablo 2 after so many years, the lack of such a feature is restricting the fun while playing. So today, with this petition, we tell you one of the communities biggest wishes:

Give us a safe method for muling!

As this feature is in World of Warcraft and will be in Diablo 3, we know that you know about this problem as well and that you are able to solve it.

We do not want to be seen as cheaters or hackusers like all those botters and maphack users for wanting to keep our items safe.

We only ask for a feature that should have been in the game from the beginning to make it an even greater experience to play!

Yours sincerely,

The united fans of Diablo




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Bryan
Posted 15, Nov 2008 11:10 PM
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Got 2 computers? No problems

Don’t, but have 5 minutes? No problems

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MacSmith
Posted 16, Nov 2008 12:54 AM
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konfeta
Posted 16, Nov 2008 01:01 AM
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Er… I seriously doubt anything will come of this.

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whiteyboy
Posted 16, Nov 2008 04:33 AM
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Hopefully Blizzard will do this. I’m getting tired of perming mules.

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TheReadMenace
Posted 16, Nov 2008 05:40 AM
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I know this is a selfish comment, and I know this has more to do with those who were banned that used the modified d2gfx.dll.  The beef I have is there’s no mention of Single Player muling.  How many thousands of SPers will lose their ability to trade items without TCP/IP capabilities in D3?  It irks me, and rather badly, too…

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That_Other_Guy
Posted 16, Nov 2008 09:47 AM
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We shouldn’t have to wait five minutes, risk losing our items, or use third-party software to be able to switch items between characters.

I wonder how many of the many games contributing to D2’s 1.2-player-per-game average are muling games (and trading games, which should also be supplanted by an auto-trade/auction system).

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GoldenBird
Posted 16, Nov 2008 06:51 PM
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Would love to sign it, except the whole thing is in like German…

Really hope they do notice or pain though. I just lost some nice stuff my friend gave me the other day… wasn’t cheap stuff either. I hope he doesn’t find out about it :K

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Galtrovan
Posted 16, Nov 2008 06:51 PM
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I’d sign but have no interest in creating a new account on a site that is in a language I cannot readily read.  Any chance Diii will host a local copy of the petition here?

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Galtrovan
Posted 16, Nov 2008 07:11 PM
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Changed my mind… I created an account and signed the petition.  Beware, the sign-up process is all in German.

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Galtrovan
Posted 16, Nov 2008 07:17 PM
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@Bryan “Don’t, but have 5 minutes? No problems”

Sorry, but “No problems” is not true.  Battle Net can dump any game at any time, usually at the most inopportune time.  You can also get kicked from Battle Net for doing this if you enter/exit the game too quickly or too many times in a row.

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