This coming after this particular spam bot has been spamming the Torment chat for over a year and having been reported THOUSANDS of times, and having been blocked so many times to the point where I gotta keep emptying my blocklist because the Block function does NOT block the entire account, only the toon that is actively posting.
Which of course is circumvented by the simple fact the spam bot makes toon after toon after toon endlessly. And it’s always the same account because the battletag is always identical. only the toon name changes.
At this stage the joke writes itself, which is only fitting since the entire game has turned into a bad joke.
quite the opposite, they gave me a 2-week ingame silence for cussing out the bot
and after I stopped laughing my off I kindly informed support that I’m really looking forward to hearing they’re getting fired when blizzard announces massive layoffs to save money, because their games are getting suckier and suckier.
aside from the fact they ban legit players and protect their own spam bots that advertise their not-so-secret faux-third party auction house.
yeah the discord/AH spamming bots. in my region you get the usual nonstop flood of bots in sub-Torment chat but you stop seeing them once you cross over to Torment 1+.
in Torment 1+ chat we only have ONE bot account that has been coming back week after week, month after month, season after season for over a year. has been reported 1000s of times.
how is that even possible? can’t be lvl1 and in T4 because you gotta do the T4 pit. massive XP gain. so if someone ran the T4 pit for the bot, the bot at the end wouldn’t be lvl1 anymore.
it’s their own personnel running the bots to begin with. it’s blizzard’s bots that are running the off-site auction house. they do it this way because they’re trying to avoid being shut down like the D3 one.
but they’re not as slick as they think. it’s easily traced back to them, and the entity that forced them to shut down the D3 auction house will be very interested to see this.
lol don’t bother, that up there is blizz’s self-appointed #1 shill…and a terrible troll to boot, desperate for that green MVP text since Cheetah quit or…don’t know what happened to her.
Some screenies would be cool. Lots of hosting sites. I don’t have trouble believing it, it’s just seeing the account name over time helps make the argument. Then we’d be asking the right questions about how they ‘handle’ such stuff.
Do they even have a hard stance against spam that directs you to a website anyway? Bot or no bot.
It happens all the time. This should be telling you something. It could be an exploit but as RMT, duping and bots are allowed to run wild and unchecked I doubt it.
that would require me to go back and play this long enough for the bot to appear. no thanks.
but I can do one better: I checked my block list and I found 10 different accounts with near-identical btags. I originally THOUGHT it was the same account over and over because when you hit report & block it only shows the toon name & main btag username without the numbers, like you see it in the chat.
there you go, Hamlet. found 10 different ones I’d blocked before I realized there’s no point in blocking them because they just make more toons.
That’s the thing… it means they’re making new accounts, which suggests something different about Blizzard’s approach. Same account would be extra-lame or imply ‘complicity’.
Unfortunately this means run-of-the-mill incompetence, which is cheaper than trying to fix the problem. I wonder how many of those almost-identical accounts were banned. If a new one keeps popping up every time one gets banned (as opposed to very few of them getting banned despite reporting) it means the system they have in place is passively or deliberately lax…
…probably b/c they don’t want to hire staff to parse through the hundreds (thousands?) of accounts per season a more aggressive setting would flag or suspend, or to process the complaints such a setting would trigger from affected users. Spam accounts feed user engagement anyway, and nobody quits b/c of spam. I think they’d rather deal with the complaints about the spam, ie. by ignoring it, since there’s no need to hire staff for that.
A basic indicator I’ve always used, to tell me how little this bothers them, is how clunky the reporting interface is (unless they made it user-friendly the last couple seasons, which I doubt.) They obviously would rather players remove themselves from Trade chat & not complain.
off I kindly informed support that I’m really looking forward to hearing they’re getting fired when blizzard announces massive layoffs to save money, because their games are getting suckier and suckier.
long enough for the bot to appear. no thanks.