Diablo III Multiplayer Game Creation Under Limits

Today, Blizzard announced, via a post on its message boards, that they would be placing limits on how often users can create Diablo III multiplayer games. According to Blizzard, this is a measure to limit botting, and players enjoying the game legitimately shouldn’t face issues.

In the near future, we’ll be re-enabling the limit on how many games a player can create within a certain amount of time. We’ve further tuned and tested the conditions that trigger this limit to ensure, as much as possible, that it only affects those abusing the Diablo III game service in a way that violates the Terms of Use for example, by using bots that create games in rapid succession.

The use of bots not only impacts the stability of the game service, but it also has an impact on the player-driven economy. While we regularly take action against accounts for the use of unauthorized third-party programs and bots, this additional measure will help us further preserve and protect the integrity of the game and economy in between ban waves.

Once this change goes live, we’re looking for your feedback to help ensure that the limit is working as intended. If you encounter the “Input limit reached” message and feel you should not have, please let us know how many games you were creating and why. This information will help us ensure the limit minimally impacts legitimate players while still protecting the game against bots.

Considering that a lot of players have taken to doing boss runs, and the game’s quest selection system actually encourages that sort of gameplay, I have to wonder if this will cut back the item farming, whether done by bots or human players.