Herbs just overrun by bots, its crazy., i pay you so i can play this game. Stop letting bots run rampant for months at a time before bans.
The problem is they have enough time between ban waves to make enough gold to sell for real money and set up a new account to bot with when their current is banned. You need to start hammering down on them faster. The bots are pretty obvious, if your automated detection isnt working get some humans in the field.
Probably pay less for human labor than you would developing automated systems that clearly aren’t working.
Ive had a group of 10 reporting the same bots for over a month. Thats the problem. Nothing gets done, as soon as a ban wave hits the bots are back up the next day on new accounts. They need to be dealt with before its profitable for them, like within a day or 2. Otherwise they make enough gold to sell for REAL MONEY to support another account and make a profit without worry.
Theres so many bots on most servers now its impossible to farm.
Blizzard does ban the bots, but it does take time.
They want to investigate it and verify if it’s a bot and how it works so they can issue bans and try to break the existing ones.
Bots don’t help Blizzard in any way so I can assure you it’s something they don’t want around.
Not necessarily, and more problematic is how they’re working, which isn’t clear from a glance, and no, just looking at characters is not enough to verify if they are indeed a bot.
They don’t pay for accounts. Most botting is done by organized crime groups who simply steal accounts and use those. That’s why ‘banning them within a day or two’ wouldn’t work, because they’d just hop to another stolen account. Also it wouldn’t prevent them from continuing to use their illicit software, nor would it really do anything to keep them from making a profit. Even worse, it could negatively affect real players.
They use both. Players think it’s cut and dry, but it isn’t.
They work extremely well, actually, and the reverse engineering method Blizzard uses allows them to continue to improve it. There are probably hundreds or thousands of programs who never even make it into the game world thanks to Blizzard’s security systems.
Entirely possible they simply weren’t bots. You have no way of knowing if they are or not. If they are, investigations can take much, much longer than simply a month.
Incorrect. This is actually what would happen with the whack-a-mole method. As I said, they steal the accounts. Ban waves come after the program being used has been broken, so anyone using that program can’t be back up the next day. They might use an alternative that has not been broken yet, or they might be other people entirely still using a botting program that’s functional.
People spend entirely too much time worrying about bots. So much so that you think they spend $15 a month just to seek them out in game and watch them.
You need to watch what you spout as ‘facts’. We spend an insane amount of resources fighting these guys, have for years. The only real way to truly get rid of them is for players to stop giving them money. They’d disappear like a foul odor on a stiff breeze if there was no profit in it.