I imagine it will just raise gold prices since botters will need to double their account inventory, and keep all of them active just in case the other half gets caught.
But every little bit against them helps.
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This is affecting me as well since Friday night. Support has been no help, they just keep saying âlog out for 12 hours.â It has not helped. Uninstalled/reinstalledâŚNothing. My account is almost 20 years old! Just resubscribed 2 weeks ago.
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Ouch, that sucks. Itâs always the worst when you have a game breaking bug and itâs not widespread. I mean this sounds pretty spread, but not overwhelmingly.
Yeah that was a uh, that was an answer for sure. Even if it was the fix (so far mixed results) itâs still pretty crummy to hear.
All itâs gonna do is make bot accounts wait 30 days to farm, it just hurts all porspect of new wow players trying classic.
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Would you rather Blizzard install bot detection software on your PC as a downloadable package with WoW? It would parse your drives looking for bot programs etcâŚthis is the only other logical way to prevent botting.
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ah yes, I see the âif they canât get all the bots, do nothing insteadâ crowd has started to arriveâŚ
Its not a solvable problem, its a problem to defend against as best as they can. Sadly this one got bungled all up and quasi released early.
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Buying a six-month non-refundable subscription two weeks ago, and now soft locked. How on earth does that not bypass the bot checks. Well Iâm sure when i return in two weeks, the bots wonât.
I would support heavy handed permanent account bans if they verify you bought gold. Make people afraid of losing everything, on all WoW platforms, if they purchase gold.
You donât stop botters, you canât. You cut off players who make botting profitable.
Because 6 month subs can be bought cheaply from other regions by botters when they use a simple VPN to bypass the system checks on regions. You can get a 6 month sub for your bot account in some countries for the equivalent of 20 dollars.
This isnât about the gold buyers, this is combating the gold sellers (AKA Botters). This prevents new botting accounts from making gold from the AH to then sell for RMT.
I bought mine for 82 USD, they canât build that nuance into their system? Also, how does the 30 days stop the bots, you think they have less patience than an actual player?
Possibly, that might be something they need to add to future development. But then again adding âpast paymentsâ as flags can get tricky too. Do you go back a single payment for an account? Do you go back 2 past payments etc? Itâs not as cut and dry.
The 30 day restriction prevents bots from benefiting from AH gold. Itâs not worth the botters time to post Auctions at that point because most likely that botting account would be banned then within that 30 day period.
This would take a major chunk of gold away from the Gold sellers.
Yeah building these systems is incredibly difficult. I just find it surpirising a team with 20 years of experience in mitigating fraud and botting implemented this strategy. Iâll be back obviously as six months is a lot of time, but how many new players just nope out. I mean even discovering why âthis action is restrictedâ error happens in-game is a bit of a slog.
Oh of course, but theyâve been in a losing fight against bots since bots first appeared in MMOs. No MMOs that have infrastructure and virtual economy have ever been able to stop rampant botting.
This is definately heavy handed, but I can see how this would completely shut down botters from making gold on new accounts while they catch up to banning the existing botting accounts.
This is going to hurt the gold sellers in WoW tremendously. Like extreme hurt. Now granted they make money from other games still by selling currency for RMT but this will absolutely see a major drop in botting activity in WoW
Agreed, this should have been announced awhile ago. They should have made an official statement atleast as soon as they pushed this change out.
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so what your saying is that my roommate wants to play wow and now he will be hit with a major âdefectâ due to the fact its a new account? how is this going to bring new players in? i would assume new player would just stop playing after a few hours and never return and go back to FF14
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I saw the post before the delete, and honestly that makes sense the botters could do that. Now granted they would be paying double essentially for a singular botâŚbut the RMT might end up out-weighing the extra month cost etc.
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I just read over on the Customer Support forum apparently returning accounts that have already made payments on WoW previously have a 12 hour restriction timer etc. But NEW accountsâŚlike fresh WoW accounts that have never made a payment before canât use the features (AH, Mailbox, Trade) for 30 daysâŚ
This is much less heavy handed than I originally thought.