In case anyone doesn't get updates from Blizzard, this was recently posted on their D3 website:
Topic title: Cheating in Diablo III
Blizzard Entertainment has always taken cheating in any form in Blizzard games very seriously, and that's no different for Diablo® III. If a Diablo III player is found to be cheating or using hacks, bots, or modifications in any form, then as outlined in the Diablo III end user license agreement, that player can be permanently banned from the game. This means that the player will be permanently unable to log in to Battle.net® to play Diablo III with his or her account.
Playing Diablo III legitimately means playing with an unaltered game client. Doing otherwise violates our policies for Battle.net and Diablo III, and it goes against the spirit of fair play that all of our games are based on. We strongly recommend that you avoid using any hacks, cheats, bots, or exploits. Suspensions and bans of players that have used or start using cheats and hacks will begin in the near future.
Note that they say they have been keeping track of players who have used cheats... so, if you've been using the trainer in your game, don't be surprised if you suddenly try to log on in a few weeks and find that you cannot. I would have loved nothing more than being able to use the trainer for this game, but I know Blizzard far too well to know how seriously they take "cheating" in their game.
Yes, using the trainer is considered cheating by Blizzard. Super speed makes Inferno difficulty a TON easier, or so I've been told.
In any case, I just thought I'd give you all a heads up that Blizz is dropping the hammer, so be careful out there!
We can probably count on it. Especially since real money is involved in the auctioning of items, and the RMAH is set to launch tomorrow... I'd say they'll be dropping the hammer sometime in the next 24 hours.
We always knew that it was a possibility seeing as how they did the same thing with Starcraft 2. That is why we warned people from the get-go and put a disclaimer on each trainer file. If Blizzard does decide to go after people cheating in the single player mode, they are only shooting themselves in the foot and alienating people that won't be buying their games in the future.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris O'Rorke (chris@cheathappens.com) Co-Founder: Cheat Happens.com
BTW, it would be very simple to just not allow people flagged as "cheating" to even access the Real Money Auction House. Our cheats don't affect anything but single player mode and even if it DID affect MP, none of them give you any advantage that would affect the auction house.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris O'Rorke (chris@cheathappens.com) Co-Founder: Cheat Happens.com
There's allegedly a ton of bots that go about gathering tons of gold for you so maybe they might be targeting mostly instead of the trainer. But with the way Warden works, it doesn't distinguish between programs very well (just if the game files have been modified).
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