I found a lvl 58 dk bot in Wetlands while leveling herbalism. He was very clearly a bot because he was stuck trying to reach a mining node just out of reach, and was spam mounting a deathcharger / getting dismounted for over 2 hours. (My leveling route passed him).
I reported him for cheating / botting, and added him to my friends list to seem if he exists or not.
It’s been 9 days. He hasn’t logged off a single time. He’s been online in stonetalon mountains for 6 days straight, at lvl 58.
I’ve reported him every day.
I opened a ticket and it’s been pending for 5 days with no response.
This is just 1 player of thousands. It’s a joke that there’s no system in place to ban botters, or at least ban them quicker than every 6 months.
It’s just sad to me because I remember when there was actually GM’s that existed in the game. And they actually responded to tickets. Now they just let the game go to crap.
This ruins realms economies, and is terrible for game health. But they give you a sub so I guess you don’t care. Just make a statement that you allow botters and we can move on.
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Yes, Blizzard doesn’t care. Your reports were ignored because that is a monthly sub for them.
Companies change. It’s best to take it as a loss and move on. There are plenty of other good games out there. Good luck to you.
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I feel like it is pretty obvious that botting isn’t allowed but there is little to no enforcement.
Is it bad enough to actually convince you to go anywhere or do anything about it short of a forum post?
It’s not a problem to Activision Blizzard if it makes them money. It’s only a problem if it costs them money.
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I would wager blizzard has lost many subs over the years from their lack of game management, removal of GM’s, and allowing hacking in their game. But they refuse to release numbers anymore so who knows.
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You’re probably right but one thing stands out to me with every release that Blizzard has put out over the last several years - they don’t care about the quality or long term viability of their games more than they are concerned with preorders, initial purchases, and post launch microtransactions with as little overhead as possible.
Classic is ripe for exploitation because they don’t even really need to make a game. Think of all the money they don’t have to pay people. Wrath dies off? Just push forward with the next expansion on the list or start over.
The initial revenue and microtransactions will generate profit for minimal development cost and us WoW players are some of the best suckers out there.
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you are allowed to bot now, they added that as an option from the blizzard store!
Update, my ticket still hasn’t been opened, and it says 5 days 13 hours average wait time left. Meanwhile my guildie opened a ticket for harassment and had a response in legitimately under 3 minutes. So they’re just straight up ignoring any claims of botting.
The dk is still online, hasn’t logged off for 1 second in over a week. (You’d think there would be some kind of system in place where they think “uh maybe this guy isn’t playing for 450 hours straight without sleeping”)
Also just searching 58 dk on my realms right now shows 38 dk’s inside blackrock spire. Either the farm of the decade for real players, or they’re all bots.
I swear you could pay someone $5 an hour to ban these people. It’s not rocket science. Company is a joke.
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i reported a low level guy in warsong 82times and had everyone in the warsong (horde side) report the guy too… I dont think they care. At least with farming mats its not a direct hurt on you as much as having an afk bot back peddling and randomly jumping every few seconds.
It sucks they cant just have some system you can report people and they system kicks in a tell of some kind like what is 2+2 or what letter comes after abcd… something that would prove its just not an afk bot program running and actually a person.
Actually the more i think about it, I bet they could add a player base system that would allow people to flag someone in a warsong match as afk bot, if 3 people flag someone… the flagged person would have to respond with an answer or a movement action within 30seconds and if not they get auto /afk or something like that. Maybe mark a box if they get 3 of those in a lock out week, they are banned for x days/weeks
There wouldn’t be botting if so many of you dregs wouldn’t buy gold.
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of course! even blizzard apoproives of bots, how else would they make money if they banned credit cards? can you imagine a near bankrupt game company banning their incomes?
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Right. 61-70 AV is full of DK bots farming gold for all those gold buyers that make them do it. Or maybe they are too lazy to legit level.
lol that actually seems really funny to stumble across.
Update again. Its been 24 hours since last update, and the ticket wait time has increased from 5 days 13 hours, to 6 days 4 hours.
The DK still hasn’t logged off since creation of the characters almost 2 weeks ago.
Daily reports doing nothing.
Time to start botting I guess guys, since blizz doesn’t care at all.
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Yes, it’s beyond apparent that botting is now fine.
I spammed EoTS weekend all day yesterday. Every BG I played approximately 3/4 of the team on both sides are DK bots. I’m not even exaggerating. I even saw several multiboxing groups of DK bots. Whichever team had the least amount of bots would win.
Indeed, Blizz doesn’t care at all.
Edit: This was in the 70-79 bg’s.
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This community is a walking contradiction.
What are you talking about lmao. No one in this thread said reports should instantly ban someone.
It’s also ok to buy gold. How could it not be in the current paradigm?
I’m referring to the fact that the majority of this community believes that right-click reports can automatically ban people. They simultaneously claim that reports do nothing.
There’s more dk bots in eots this weekend than real players. Blizzard is ok with it, otherwise they’d block dks from queuing Call to Arms.
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Id love to just see the fallout from that…