Can you please review Arugal/Felstriker/Yojamba for bots and farming? Possibly they are also exploiting free transfers to also move their farmed gold.
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Well I thought some action was taken but I guess the bots/farmers just had a week off. They are growing again.
After a brief lull, they are all back again. Can the free transfers be shut off to Whitemane now please? The only players left are gold farmer/bots who are only there to exploit the free transfer loophole and a few with a hope more actual players can be attracted to Arugal etc.
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The unlimited free transfers are rife with abuse. They need to be closed, especially now that the cloning service is retired. I have observed similar exploitative behavior on my native realm Incendius in the PvP East:
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Bots are still farming 24/7 
Blizzard needs to close down free transfers from low pop servers to Whitemane. Any actual players still on these servers are happy and not looking to go to a higher pop server. New, real players who join low pop servers will realise quickly if it suits them or not and just create a character elsewhere if they wish.
Meanwhile farmers and farming bots get to abuse the free transfer system.
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I’m posting about it everytime Blue makes a new ‘This Week In WoW’ article. 3 weeks in, maybe 4th times the charm?
In retail they sort of fixed the issue you are talking about with the auction house being centralized. It caused a major supply of everything which drove prices to such a low. If somebody is crafting and selling items to buy tokens and not dig into their pockets they lost that. Long ago you could transfer one of your toons to another account, I believe they made that harder so the sale of toons is non existent, hence the hacking is not as bad. You were able to sell a toon well geared for up to 1500 real dollars which is why hacks got so bad. I believe they are trying to help but not take away from the classic play.
Glad to see it!
Yesterday i got banned for RMT cuz i buyed wow tokens and sold them to AH the i used gold to buy m20 dungeons. So whats the point of selling wow token if we can’t use it cuz u bann people randomly for RMT?
With all due respect, why do it like this? Why not do it “boots on the ground”?
The automated way of detecting them with software and then banning them in a wave is futile, why don’t you just do it the oldschool way? The game was never as pure as when you had actual GMs.
I know for a fact I could, and would if given the opportunity, ban way more bots and clean up the server way more than you guys could. HIRE GMS.
Do you know how easy it would be to end this? All I’d have to do is /who spam near the entrance portal and find the names of the mages that I suspected to be flying under the map to the ZG portal, and then ban them as soon as I target and get them.
Then i’d just hang outside of purple mara and watch as the bot mages go in and out all day and ban them too. I’d swing by Dire Maul after that. etc.
It’s not hard to discern who is a gold selling bot/who is a noob. Anyone who has actually played WoW can make the distinction quite easily. I could even identify them based on a still image of their gear with about 75% accuracy id say. I know most know what I’m talking about.
If a false positive goes out, just have them appeal and reinstate it. Then you can do all the nitty gritty inspection on their accounts.
If you had ONE dude, just ONE post up on whitemane at maradon and do that you would see insane results.
I’m not sure if you guys really want them gone though or just buying more accounts.
Start a player vigilante system where you give soft-moderation privileges to people who can mostly be proven to be trusted.
Make my sub free and give me a tool to softban/open bots to review and ban me if I abuse it.
I’ve given well over $2,500 in sub fees since I’ve been playing. I guarantee you could recruit people that would ban bots on the side if you would.
Sure doesn’t seem like you are doing anything about it.
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Or what if just hear me out here you get a GOOD anti-cheat system that bans right away when people fly/teleport hack in your game not 4 months later?
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Just figured I’d let you guys know you still suck at dealing with bots.
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Your feedback on this issue of exploitable free transfers would be welcome.
My most recent
Thread:
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/clarity-request-classic-wow%E2%80%99s-free-character-migrations-and-the-tos/
TWIW: This Week in WoW: August 28, 2023 - #13 by Despitebeing-incendius
Always on it for sure
Probably because most people don’t have a problem with the 30 instance limit. Just a very vocal minority, flipping between their alt accts.
Please, I beg of you, don’t even think for a second to add WoW tokens to classic era… please…
Ban waves allow bots to accomplish what they set out to accomplish. A gold farmer is able to farm all the gold they need before they are hit with a ban wave. After being hit with a ban they simply hop onto another account and bot for months until the next ban wave. Blizzard is no closer to stopping botting today than they were 15 years ago.
Gold farming is still going on servers. Arugal has maybe 300 characters playing, of which 90% are mages farming dungeons. Kill the free transfers please!!! We want players playing, not gold farmers.
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