I get your salty GDKP is banned on SoD but this isn’t just about SoD. GDKP is doable on all other versions of wow.
Onto topic: I’d probably stop playing with this system. Doing a captcha every 30 minutes to 4 hours would be so annoying that I’d eventually dread logging in and eventually just not do it.
Cool. Just implement it, and sell it to Blizzard. Good luck with your enterprise.
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This sounds awful, no thank you.
Lot of these bots are monitored by a human being. The botter runs 10 bots at the same time. he is playing the game on 1 screen n on the other screen he is monitoring all the 10 bots. So that person can put in the captcha.
The other problem is what ppl said, the captcha makes it annoying for legit players.
There are multiple ways to catch bots. You can identify most of them by tracking the gold. Most bots are somehow involved in rmt. And the gold is always track-able.
The 2nd way is look for behaviors. Moving, selling, buying, attacking, recovering, etc… There are patterns there. Bots are pretty advanced these days, but their behaviors are still distinguish-able than humans.
Finally, give me access to wow database n log files for 1 month and I will give you queries that identifies a good amount of these bots with very high accuracy.
The same restrictions apply to Anniversary realms.
And of course botting is rampant there and SoD.
First, tell Blizzard why they should, from a monetary perspective (integrity / the rules have not proved sufficient, it has just resulted in token gestures feigning attention and concern). If this was something that they deemed an actual problem, they could shut it down within a week. But, they’re making money from the bots. So, convince them why they should make less money and address it, then back it up with data.
Don’t the serious botting operations work with a human monitoring large numbers of accounts running bots? In that case the human could just step in whenever that check comes up and could keep up even with dozens of bots running.
Have you ever heard the expression “don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater”?
Yeah that’s where I went wrong
Gold buyers will show up in droves to dismantle this amazing idea.
Real players love captchas.
Want to kill Ragnaros, everyone in the raid should complete a captcha.
yes. Want to mine that 3rd node? Complete a captca
The best way to get rid of bots is to report them whenever you see them . Blizzard how ever should have several groups of people to also find and look through reports about bots and get rid of them which im sure they do to some degree but definitely needs to be more a lot more
Or like maybe people can get over buying gold in a 20 year old video game. Chances are they’ve paid for these items multiple times too if they’ve come back for all the releases like I know they have lol. Just a heads up if you’re buying gold you’re an idiot.
But what no one thinks about is the poor gold buyers…if we get rid of bots…who’s going to farm all that goldthey need to buy…then the flow on is the poor gdkpers…those guys need people to have bought gold for them to sell runs to…come on guys think of the people this really affects.
Blizzard could stop bots if they wanted to. But, having the bots is guaranteed subs, and if they ban them at a low enough rate it’s guaranteed repurchasing of the game and a sub.
Also there are so many players who will get bans for purchasing gold or services that will either start a second account in a temp ban or start a new account in a permaban.
Bottom line is blizzard makes too much money off of bots.
Good idea, it would work, but so would a ton of other solutions.
Blizzard won’t do this or anything because they’ve made it clear their stance on bots is supportive. Because it makes them money.
The entire community should take note that Blizzard is deliberately making your game experience worse.
Bots usually have an actual human player monitoring them like a security guard watching a hundred security cameras. So a captcha would basically do nothing.
Also, as others have pointed out, the OP does look suspiciously AI generated.
Blizzard should send gold to the people that find/report bots. Oh, and Blizzard should just sell gold directly to the players. That would basically eliminate the problem immediately. Another solution is to charge the first month up front if they don’t already. Gotta hurt the botters financially.
I floated the idea that Blizz might end up somewhere like this back in September
And now players are here advocating for it actually…
The reality is that algorithms(AI) are already more sophisticated at solving captchas than the average human player.
OPs intent is well-placed, but this wouldn’t actually lead to the end of botting, it would lead to the end of organic human activity in this game.