Hope you guys have not been too affected by the lawsuit, and that you’re doing well.
Also, TBCC is on fire.
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“on fire” as in it’s great!
This game is awesome!
Well done, Blizzard! I love TBC Classic!
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They should absolutely have an open dialogue with the community, but idk if I would say TBCC is on fire.
They should do something about bots, they should give set dates on HvH and arena price changes.
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Game is pretty 
Love it so far
Excited for SSC / TK
Don’t really need someone to make a post and say hi we are working on fixing bugs found in the public test servers to enjoy it… there is a PTR so it’s very apparent on what they’re working on
If you can’t put two and two together… well…
Bots are cat-and-mouse games against two sets of very skilled developers. One set works for Blizzard and the other is third-party; It’s always going to be ongoing. Find a way to detect them through automation, bot developers find a new way to go undetected.
Automation is crucial and always used in large enterprises. My company looks for ways to automate literally every single task we do every single day. It makes life easier as companies get larger and larger.
I look for ways to automate everything I’m doing too. Because when I do, my life becomes a lot easier. That’s just how IT works. I used to work 8 hours a day. A patching process that used to take me 3 hours takes me 10 minutes now as well because I learned how to automate it. Now I work like 3 hours a day for the same pay 
but that comes with being on call 24/7/365 and so the better you learn to run your systems the better your life gets as a result.
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Dude have some respect they are most likely working on ways to cube crawl and how to get Bobby a new boat.
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You are full of a rat droppings amigo even 1 GM posted at a dungeon could eliminate 80% of a servers bots.
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Don’t you think if it were that easy it’d already be done? Any game that has a lot of players has people botting, hacking and cheating to sell things with real money because it’s lucrative. The people who develop things that go undetected are every bit as talented as the people who develop the game. Some might even be more talented.
Even if it was as easy as that, it’s not a sustainable solution.
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Type /who Steamvaults in game and you will have your answer.
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Right let’s just ban all the people in steamvaults or anyone legit farming on an alt etc. you guys really have it figured out you should sign up for management positions at Fortune 500 companies and let me know how you’re doing.
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All of those legitimate players just picking pockets in BRD all day back in classic.
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You’re a clown if you think there is the same amount of people legitimately in there farming compared to the bots and boosters. Oh but all the people who said bots wouldn’t buy the boost, they couldn’t have been wrong at all right ?
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It’s far to late to fix the botting problem. Much of the prices on my server is already tanked. Gems, ore, enchanting, herbs, etc. That’s a problem that was already here from classic, was still ignored, now it’s already wrecked much of the economy.
I’m glad I made most of my gold in the start of TBC, would suck trying to do it now.
When WotLK releases, the same thing will happen. They won’t fix botting, just like they didn’t fix botting in retail, or in Diablo 3 ladders where the top 10 players would have 23 hours played every day for 4 months straight.
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We need a blue post on when we’re getting T5. Waiting multiple months for launch content is unacceptable.
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You are correct in the sense there are a bunch of people actually farming. But they pale in comparison to botters. They make money selling gold. There are more botters than legit players farming at any time of the day.
If I were a botter, that’d be bad business to not be grinding as much as possible. They aren’t as stupid as people think, they just don’t care about the game. It’s an income.
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You literally set up a trigger box that scans the names of those who enter it.
Compare the gear, compare the number of times they’ve gone into the instance, the amount of coin their earning per hour, and how long they’ve been logged in.
If they exceed the limits, block them from entering dungeons for 72hrs.
But why bother. Blizzard makes too much money off the bots via the boost token.
WoW is pretty much in a death spiral now. The more bots that show up, the more players leave, the more Blizzard’s earnings depend on subs powering bots, the more bots are allowed to roam, the more players leave; spiraling into the abyss.
Hell, they could “deputize” some of the players to actually flag accounts that prevent the account from entering a dungeon for 5min, with the knowledge that if they abuse the power it’s a perma ban.
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Yup… Botters are quick cash now. But you keep allowing them to come in, people leave, who are the bots going to sell to? Eventually you lose both.
Short-sightedness as usual.
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Back in wrath a friend’s account who had been offline since mid TBC became active. He never responded to my messages and one day I found him mining in wintersgrasp. I knew then he had been hacked and reported it to a GM.
They actually did agree it was hacked and was a bot farming ore. His character went offline and never came back online.
The lack of GM access is disheartening in TBCC.
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Those limits better be pretty high. My days off, if the weather sucks and I’m stuck inside, it’s not uncommon for me to game 60 hours in my 3 days off.
What are you even talking about? A middle school child with any programming experience can easily figure out how to detect and ban bots. It isn’t rocket science, nor is it difficult to figure out past an elementary school education. Just because YOU don’t understand it, doesn’t mean nobody else does.
This is correct. Botters are the lifeblood of the Acti-Blizzard financial model. Without botters, this game would be dead. Botters/gold sellers enable players to continue playing the game via gold buying, boosting services, etc. It’s 2021, people don’t have the “time” to farm, and as much as the forum go-ers pretend, they won’t accept the facts that this game has serious problems.
The whole ONE boost per account was a PR stunt for the community. Blizzard is smart, they understand that ONE boost per account is huge cash for their botter/cheater farms. It is guaranteed money, as no gold seller is going to level 1-60. They will make a new account, buy a boost, hack/cheat, and if it gets banned, do it all over again… why? Because that’s still more profitable than leveling 1-60.
Gold selling is an institutionalized business with lots of support. Yes, there are legit farmers living in not-so gear environments that use it as a means to life, and there are the large cheating groups printing money via straight hacking. They give no care since Blizzard bans bots/cheaters in direct correlation to their financials. It’s a nice game they play to help boost quarterly numbers as needed.
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It’s sickening that you are blindly defending a company that doesn’t care about the game, player base and employees it now seems. All I’m asking you to do for once in your life to question the narrative and take off the fan boy goggles and ask yourself if you deserve better. Remember we can destroy blizzard with our wallets don’t forget it.
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