Nah, sorry! I’m more thorough than that, so I guess that’s on me.
But I also include zone/coords/realm time to my reports, along with the name of the other bots involved.
There absolutely zero reason for that. In two reports of me right clicking I’ve had both be taken care of.
You’re the one wasting your time. That’s not Blizzard’s fault. No wonder y’all keep coming up with weird nonsense. lol
Moving on.
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Hey, just going by what they request, so don’t blame me for following directions.
“Report Player for Cheating”
Below, please provide a clear and specific
description of the cheating player behavior you
observed from this player. Include as much
detail as possible about the timeframe, the
location, and the actions the character was
performing.
The really sad part is how much they’ve place in the tooltip description for reporting players. Wished that they’d be that thorough in some of the gameplay tooltips.
It’s a real simple solution…
Just hire more GMs for crying out loud. Pick up some college kids that need a job, put 'em on part time shifts, problem solved.
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huh…guess banning that keyclone software was a hokey bust lmao.
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I just found the spot you were talking about. Happened upon about 20 of them on Moon Guard. Really sad to see. I can’t even effectively report them. They run off so fast and it’s hard to keep up with their names as well as who I’ve reported and who I haven’t.
Sigh. This poor game.
ETA: And one of the worst parts is that they are obviously finding these VERY obscure hyperspawn locations. I never would’ve come out here if it hadn’t been for your post.
Why do they need GMs? Don’t they have this fancy Warden system parked on the computer of everyone who players WoW?
If it can track the norty keying software for multiboxing, surely it can track people using botting software? I’m not computer savvy but I don’t get why Warden can track one sort of software in use and not track another sort. Or am I missing something?
Warden probably looks at running processes by name / hash and compares it to a list of known bot programs… kind of like how most antivirus programs work.
Bot makers probably update their app weekly if not more frequently for that reason alone - it is really easy to change the name, a couple characters in the program and get an entirely new hash. Compile it, send it over to their bot users and voila - undetected bot.
until blizzard outright bans third party software botting will always be an issue
You don’t need 30 computers. It could be done with 1 if it had some serious hardware, but 2 or maybe 3 computers would work.
It can, but it needs to be retaught ever time the bot makers adjust/redesign their bots.
There was a time when a GM was around looking at tickets and porting into areas to see what was going on, but those days are long gone. Blizz relies on players to let them know about people who violate ToS.
I reported 15 in one world quest spot in Ardenweald and nothing. It just sucks that it’s basically supported.
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I don’t report any Bots, I don’t care what they do.
I mean and reality is those types of bots last a day or two at max, but these people are doing it for profit so the cost of getting a new account up & running is nothing compared to what they’re making from selling that gold.
With the world of Sharding, that’s likely not a feasible solution. Even more so with the whole stance ActiBlizz seems to be taking in regards to GM’s/CS.
They’re limited in what they can do, odds are if there weren’t privacy laws in place they’d be able to catch most bots quickly. But people would scream & lose their absolute crap because they think they matter oh so much that Blizzard is stealing their data & selling it.
Have a look at the reaction a few years ago when Valve updated VAC to start scanning DNS cache. It was only sending information about matching hashes to a master table of domains they had flagged and people lost their minds about it.
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I think those emails are intended to keep people reporting in a general sense, not to inform you that a certain report resulted in an action.
Windows is third party software. You cannot play wow without windows. Would you like to narrow that down a bit?
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software that directly adds to or alters the files of world of warcraft in any shape or form, that better mr.specific?
except you NEED EVERY SINGLE QUEST in spires of arak to get 2 of the followers from there. they are effectively making content impossible to get and disrupting gameplay.
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If you’re a completionist, as I said, I’m sorry it has to be abandoned for the time being. If you’re not a completionist, then simply quest elsewhere until you can go back. Even if you are a completionist, you can always go back later, try again, hope Blizz actually gets rid of the bots.
I’m not sure why you’re getting bent out of shape when I did acknowledge it sucks. I’ve had similar happen to me before, as well.