Online GameMasters [GM]

[raveharu]

I believed most of the MMORPG games have online GMs for the following reasons (based on importance):

1)To catch hackers/botters/abusers/spammers and ban them on the spot.
2)To interact with players and hold occasional events to promote the game.

I think Diablo2 LOD should catch up with time and get in-game GMs, there are always an influx of hackers/botters/abusers/spammers and they are pretty annoying.
They also those who take advantage of bugs/glitches and it sucks when we as the players could not do anything.

I also feel once the GMs are established, events could be held, and I'm sure game-wise there are plenty of ideas.
EG. monster summoning event etc etc.

[ffejrxx]

1. d2 lod is not a mmo, it is instanced (uses several servers to play seperate games, 8 players max on each game)

2. d2 is old, (about 8yr, classic released in '00, lod in '01) they should have stopped supporting it a long time ago

[raveharu]

1. d2 lod is not a mmo, it is instanced (uses several servers to play seperate games, 8 players max on each game)

2. d2 is old, (about 8yr, classic released in '00, lod in '01) they should have stopped supporting it a long time ago

uh huh and your point?

Popularity wise, there's still a decent size community playing *points at this forums* , anyway this is a suggestion to make the game better.

[ffejrxx]

you can always go to the support channel in chat, and talk to bliz support if you need help or feel someone is cheating/hacking

[Voorhees]

Events as done on mmorpgs can't really be done on Diablo, unless your going to just make it available in every game created. Don't need a GM for that, just a notice.
Also, GMs could be VERY effective at eliminating spambots, baalbots, and pub duel hackers. In this respect, I say it would be very nice. Wouldn't need even any more than someone to work maybe a couple hours a day at it to almost eliminate the issues, as long as those couple hours were random.

[Crowd Control]

How cool is that? That would be very awesome. At least the spambots would be eliminated. Though I think not everybody would be happy to see the amount of Baalbots dimishing by half every hour. I would though.

[Tarantella]

If Blizzard had had online GM's running on their europe hardcore servers 5 years ago the TPPK script users would have been quickly sorted. :)

[Stevomoo]

i like the idea but unless they get more money of us (like a new expansion or pay to play) it is not going to happen

also there is thousands of games at any time so how would they check them all in a few hours. it would be a mojor lol if they got temp banned trying

[Alc]

i like the idea but unless they get more money of us (like a new expansion or pay to play) it is not going to happenThis is the crux of the issue, of course. Hypothetically if Diablo 2 became pay-to-play you could expect to see the bugfixes and GM activity the game needs, but since most of us haven't paid a penny in ~8 years, our position for demanding anything is fairly limited.