I came across bots in stormsong the other day and again in the broken isles. I got several other people to join me in reporting them. I just assumed that Blizzard had shut them down. So I contacted the guild just about 15 minutes ago to let them know they had some cheaters in the guild. I was telling the person about them and how they should kick them out. I gave them the location of where I saw them. I then decided to return to where I had seen them to double check that Blizzard and shut them down. Blizzard hadnt and so I asked the person in that guild to come check it out but the bots shut down right in front of me and the person I had been talking to from that guild quit responding to my messages.
So my question is how long after we report Cheating and Botting does it take blizzard to put a stop to it? Because I shouldn’t of said anything to that guild but I thought it was a legitimate guild and I said something before double checking to make sure that blizzard had taken care of the problem.
If Blizzard actions an account for botting/cheating, you’ll receive a notification in your in-game mailbox.
Actions can take days, weeks or even months, depending on how thorough the investigation is or needs to be. Keep in mind that Blizzard is highly interested in monitoring botting programs/activities so they know how to detect them better in the future, and shutting such botters down immediately would run counterproductive to that goal.
Once you’ve made the report, just sit back and wait for the mail to come in at some point, assuming an instance of botting is indeed confirmed and actioned upon by Blizzard. There is no need to follow the bot around or do anything else.
You don’t want to make the mistake of messing around with an actual player, who is mistaken as a bot, and run the risk of getting actioned for harassment. Report them and carry on with your life
Even one report gets investigated and if there found guilty of botting this is completly speclative well never know 100% unless blizzard sends you a mail thanking you. Also i would avoid contacting the guild at this point they could report u for harrassing if u keep hounding them over a suspected bot.
After you’ve made the report, it becomes Blizzard’s problem, not yours. If you made the report, that’s all you needed to do. Blizzard can perform investigations using their internal data and such. Report them and carry on. Don’t let a potential botter ruin your gaming experience even more by worrying about them.
Keep in mind that harassment via chat has to go above and beyond simple messaging. The players on the other side would first have to put OP on ignore. If OP attempted to circumvent the ignore (e.g. creating new accounts to use to message the people with), then that would potentially rise to the level of reportable chat harassment.
Of course, that’s a hypothetical situation that I suspect won’t be happening.
I and others are 100% certain that it’s botting and they had some dead give aways. The mounting and how fast they cleared there bags, you could sit there for an hour and they would say the exact same things over and over again. They never moved from the exact same place after 2 days.
They had an automated script. They would “lol”, they would say something to the effect “need $ money for new mount” like they where talking to one another but that was just to fool people. It was all just so fake. I’ve been playing for over a decade and I know players dont act the way these Botters did.
Again I and everyone else was convinced they were botting. Plus they didnt stop or address us around them, talking about them and talking about reporting them for cheating.
I wasn’t harassing the guild as I thought it was a legitimate guild. As far as I know it use to be and I haven’t mentioned the guilds actual name except for the Cheating Report that I filled out.
The other possibility is they could be multiboxing as long as there doing it properly that would be fine theres a difference between multiboxing and botting. THey dont even have to respond to anyone whispering them to prove there a bot or not.
If the actions between multiple toons appear to be synchronous (e.g. the herbing/mining commands are executed at the exact same time), botting is possible and something I would report. However, if actions are asynchronous, then it’s likely a legitimate multiboxer operating within the bounds of ToS.
No it doesn’t. If they placed you on ignore, then they can open a ticket for ongoing harassment if you keep attempting to contact them. Even if it is a simple message.
You still cant prove 100% if they were multiboxxing i would put u on ignore and not even respond if im doing nothing wrong then i carry on with my buissness knowing blizzard wont action me.
You’re welcome to be certain of something. It’s up to Blizzard to decide. You may very well be correct. You may very well also be incorrect. You’ve done the only thing you should be doing, which is filing a report. Let Blizzard take it from there.
There is no rule that says they have to respond. They could have the chat window closed. They could be playing and watching Netflix. They could be reading what is posted in chat and laughing. Them not responding doesn’t mean they are botting. Them responding doesn’t mean they aren’t. Chat is the least effective way to “prove” someone is botting.
Let’s be sure your expectations are properly set before going further:
Blizzard will not post on the forums about whether your report was investigated, actioned, closed, etc.
Blizzard does not take reports over the forums. Your descriptions here of the activity will contribute nothing to your in-game report.
The only thing you can do is file the in-game report. We’ve given you the low-down on what to expect with the process. Let the process play out.
Consider whether you want to allow a potential botter to “1-up” you by drawing your attention away from things you really want to do in the game. Do you really want to continue wasting time hyperfocusing on a potential botter, when you’ve already done everything a player can do?
I’ll just say it one more time and then carry on…
We know nothing. You suspect it’s a bot. It very well may be, it may not be. I don’t have to prove anything to you just as you don’t have to prove anything to me. The only people who know anything for certain are Blizzard and the person or persons behind the screen operating the characters.
You’ve done your part.
I will just advise you to be careful. You can report a character until your little heart is content. But when you try to get other people to report to help add weight to your own? That is where you open yourself up to charges of potential harassment. To some extent that is weaponizing the report system which is a big no. If it were actually real players? They could report you for trying to gang up and abuse the reporting feature, and then whispering folks too - especially if they put you on ignore and you try to go around that ignore. Not that you’ve done that explicitly, but just as a heads up to you and any who may come across this thread in the future. I know you were trying to help the guild leader, but you did kind of go overboard in that step.
Report players you think are bots. That’s it. That’s all you have to do.
You don’t need to speak to any players, you don’t need to try and get them to acknowledge and respond to you. They owe you nothing. Not the players nor the bots, whichever the case may be.
You report people. Don’t try and tell others to report too, they can report on their own if they see the same behavior and feel it needs to be reported.
You are responsible for yourself, no one else.
Again. You - right-click, report. And move on to enjoy the game. That’s it. That’s all you have to do.
No. none of what you said. I know for a fact that its a bot. I don’t need blizzards confirmation that its a bot because its a bot. They where doing thing that players cant.
My question to Blizzard was How long after I report botting does it take for them to ban them. What I reported was 100% a bot. I am 100% confident. It was not a multiboxer, multiboxing is nothing new.
Others players werre 100% that it was a bot.
The bots did things that players can not.
