honestly blizzard just needs to remove hyperspawns period.
It’s not. It takes a few days.
About 4 months ago I saw about a dozen boomkins north of Spires all flagged killing demons. I had warmode on and I wouldn’t have ever seen them if I wasnt riding down to the dugeon to get the flight path. I spend a few hours just killing them over and over between battlegrounds ques. They were definitely bots cause they never reacted to my murderous endeavors, they just ghost run back and start killing demons again. I reported them and next day blizz sent me mail thanking for being a snitch lawl
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I think they are spending too much time investigating all the multi boxers people are reporting just because they are ‘multi boxing’ and don’t have time to get around to the actual bots.
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No they shouldn’t do this. I love hyperspawn locations, they can fix it any number of other ways.
Have they got to the point where they can just hack into the game, without even game accounts?
What would be the point of that? They need an account to accumulate items. If they could do that, then they might as well just hack themselves 99999999999999999999 gold.
I don’t think that’s so. When you start playing WoW you must agree to their Terms - you actually have to tick saying you understand and accept their conditions before you are allowed to play the game. The End User License in fact says (and the caps are theirs):
“IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT, YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO INSTALL, COPY, OR USE THE BLIZZARD PLATFORM.”
In Part 4: Consent to Monitor it says:
“WHILE RUNNING, THE PLATFORM (INCLUDING A GAME) MAY MONITOR YOUR COMPUTER OR MOBILE DEVICE’S MEMORY FOR UNAUTHORIZED THIRD PARTY PROGRAMS RUNNING EITHER CONCURRENTLY WITH A GAME OR OUT OF PROCESS.”
So as I say, as per their point above, you have to agree to allow Part 4 or you can’t play the game. By ticking the box, you accept and allow them to do that.
I created a trial character on 5 other servers late last night and checked out the same spot… all 5 servers were infested with them. All doing the same thing in the same area. Each server had at least 30 of them running this area.
I have seen it in the past and pretty much just passed it by sighing to myself… but have never seen it THIS bad.
My point is, going to five servers and watching them for 1 minute told me they were bots… so if I was an employee at Blizzard and my job was to witness these and then ban them… they could have banned over 150 of them in probably less than an hour. I am sure Blizzard can automate a system where an employee targets them and then clicks a “banned for botting” button. They allow the public to be in game guides to help noobs… give some of them this power.
Seriously? Give people who aren’t employees of the company the ability to do something like that? No, I can’t see that EVER causing any problems…
And that’s not how it works. They have to check them to see if they are indeed bots. You may think they are, I may think they are, but Blizzard isn’t going to just kneejerk-react and ban them without checking first. And they also check to try and figure out what software they are using so they can effectively ban
massive amounts - not hundreds, but tens of thousands, which is how they have done it in the not-so-distant past.
Yes its annoying to see it but that’s how Blizzard does things at this time.
RIP WotLK phone call customer service
I’d definitely settle for an occasional person in an occasional zone every now and then, however.
The move toward automated moderation hasn’t been my favorite thing ever. I understand it’s not just WoW, but for an online (dare I say live service) game it feels like a really stingy cost-cutting measure.
Having some actual people peek in every now and then, people who can do more than just report and hope for the best, would nip a lot of these issues in the bud. They don’t exactly have to be there 24/7 to see these bots - they’re there constantly.
I feel like “we the player base” that does Blizzards job should be compensated for our work. We are throwing our hard earned cash at Activision/Blizzard to get crappy service and they don’t seem to care because this game is an addiction far worse than sugar in a rat/lab study
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I’ve been reporting bots for almost a year in WoW Classic, and much longer than that in retail. I’ve reported the botting coalitions since Legion in retail.
It’s basically supported, and why we’ve had players so openly ask what botting software they can use. Yeah, a CM might close the thread because that’s their job, but then you just get your answers on third party forums.
There’s a recent post I saw about a former WoW dev talking about how it’s quietly supported because of how much money Activision makes. Whether you want to believe that or not doesn’t matter, since they’ve always had the tools to stop it.
Edit: If you don’t want any risk, but want to multibox, it’s only like $3/mo for a second WoW account.
And this is part of the reason for ban waves. They investigate reports, if a new script is found they have to create a new “virus definition”. That takes time, and coupled with new scripts being created all the time, it’s a never ending process.
Throw in the sheer volume of reports being made by players, and you can understand why it take them so long to ban botters. It’s a good reason to report only the obvious cheats. A boxer using 30 accounts is most likely broadcast software.
The two to three party member groups I have seen, gathering nodes one at a time and using follow are not breaking any rules and should not be reported, no matter how much you hate boxers. My system could easily run 4 instances of WoW on my 55” screen.
Active GMs in game could speed up the process. All we can do is keep reporting and keep posting about the problem. Maybe those of you on Twitter can blow up Blizzards feed, since that became their preferred form of communication, hint hint.
It’s really annoying. They should just hire some people that check various hot spots on servers. I’m sure just banning them and having them buy new accounts will pay for the wages. Not even joking.
And create a world channel specifically to call out locations to the GMs in real time.
are you telling me some dude buy 30 wow accounts with 30 SL expansion for the sole purpose of farming?
Some dude did a 100 box, there are videos, google it. Some humans have more money than since.
Could just ban all forms of multi boxing, to make it much easier to check reports of bots to ban.
Yeah boo hoo multi boxers can’t farm stupid amounts of mats anymore, oh well.