come on Blizz … stop the gold farming, free transfer rubbish
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Just reported a player on Arugal after watching many, many players fly hacking through a tree behind White’s Hope Chapel (14 Sept 2023 9:20pm)
Stratholme (and Dire Maul) has 50+ mages in it all of whom seem to be botting/hacking/gold farming and exploiting free transfers to move gold across to other servers. Arugal has perhaps 10-15 real players and hundreds of these bots/hackers/gold farmers.
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They would never ban monthly…they let these bots cook for at least a month or long enough they can’t get refunded for their subscription. 74,000 x 15 = 1.1 Million…blizzard eating off bots alone
Come on Blizzard this is getting beyond a joke and there is a straightforward fix. Nearly every player in Stratholme and Dire Maul are fly hacking and abusing free transfers to redirect gold. Why do I need to stand behind Lights Hope Chapel and manually report players day in, day out , in the hope you ban them, when it is so obvious. Get someone to go there, press record and simply ban them while watching the replay. In an hour or two, you will have fixed the issue for a month until the bots have relevelled (painful for them). Rinse and repeat. Please!
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I’m afraid you care about this much more than Blizzard does, friend. You’re likely wasting your time reporting these bots.
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If the bots keep growing on Arugal, a dead server will have lag and a queue shortly.
Been reporting bots and hackers hard. Getting lots of mailed thanks from Blizzard, but obviously hardly any are getting banned. They are in huge numbers on Arugal and a simple closure of free transfers would fix it immediately.
Hmmmm I must be annoying the GM’s. The character I have sat at Light’s Hope Chapel reporting bots and hackers left, right and centre cannot log in now. I can log in on all other characters but this one stalls on the loading screen.
Perhaps they are sick of me reporting so often… is it too much hassle and work for them?
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You should pop over to the Customer Support forum and ask them.
I thought that forum was a myth…
What about boosting?
You did not mention boosting. 
Good job it was about time we had this action taken.
Hopefully it gets better in next expansion.
Check the date on the Blue post. This action was taken over 3 years ago.
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thank you blizzard
commenting for logs
Having Blizzard Staff active really puts a smile on my face.
Because since I’ve came back, I have only heard the opposite.
I really appreciate, especially the work on bots, It feels so lonely everytime I go around the world and there isn’t any herb to pick or anything to mine!
Hope with less bots, the economy in classic will get better too.
Cheers
You’re late comrade, I picked them all.
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This is an interesting response to the many cheating issues going on in the game. Lets start with the most obvious your reporting of players Cheating leads to a sub menu of TWO CHOICES : Botting or Hacking. Is this really the only cheating you think is going on I would have to assume that is a yes being that is all we have to report. This does not deal with your main issues on your many Classic servers now The Gold Farmers! I have already heard that you can not follow the so many players in the game 24 Hours a day. BUT Riddle me this WHY do you ALLOW FREE TRANSFERS off of Grobbulus?? Who do they benefit? Because the short answer is the Gold Farmer who moves Resources off the server at an alarming rate they now work in shifts 24 hours a day farming Black Lotus, Arcane Crystals, EVERY High level Herb, Firewaters, etc… In SHORT stop the FREE TRANSFERS because without them the Non Guilded Hunters & Mages (yeah real hard to find these guys - oh wait the who list can even find them) would mostly all fade away. Unless you really think that these “people” are actually players - if so please explain to me the game they are actually playing! OH Yeah I forgot yeah great job.
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I’m asking Blizzard to stop free transfers from low pop servers. It’s been long enough now that people who wanted to leave could have left.
Bot farmers and paid farmers are exploiting it farming lotus and RTV non-stop and despite reporting, it’s difficult to find lotus in particular for the players that are actually attempting to play on these server groups.
The free transfers create incentives for bots and farmers to transfer there, or roll and auto level chars there, and then free transfer off after they collect enough lotus and arcane crystals etc.
Free transfers off only create incentives for them to continue botting and doing this on these servers hurting gameplay for the people that are actually trying to play the game there.
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