I see bots constantly in Classic Hardcore. They are almost all hunters and usually have a Chinese pet name, and of course a gibberish character name. They follow regular paths for hours on end, grinding through levels and skinning what they can. They are absolutely easy to spot and highly predictable. I spot them instantly and report them on sight.
Blizzard could do this so easily, but they don’t. They choose to let this go on. It has been 20 years now, and they have not eliminated bots in this game because they choose to. They won’t spend a few dollars to deal with the issue because they’re a publicly traded corporation that opts to give more money to shareholders at the expense of game quality. It is profit over players.
There has been a lot of discussion around this. Your opinions are not unique here, as many have similar ones, though iirc Blizzard have stated that it is similar to an arms race, where there is real money on the line for bots and gold sellers, who will continue to increase efforts towards turning a profit.
I’m not sure what a reasonable solution might look like, but if you care about this problem, why not come up with botting solutions and sell your products to gaming companies?
Had a coworker get banned for most of a entire year for botting. So i know they
do ban them. Taking out each bot as you see them. Is like running around
stomping on each idividual ant when trying to get rid of your ant problem.
The only way to get rid of bots for good. Is making it so anything that players
collect. Cant be traded to other players, including gold.
Sorry would rather deal with bots than have them make all items untradeable, as bots have little to no real impact on most people most of the time. For HC, the problem really isn’t that much an issue and likely would be solved with two main things. First eliminate the ability to transfer items like consumables off server, specifically black lotus, arcane, and other high value herbs, and on server transfer they could simply exchange them for gold. Then get rid of or change petri flasks in some way to make them not benefit the botting community as this would eliminate likely the only item in HC which would actually make bots worthwhile.
Wrong. Bots Do Have an effect on the economy in the game, as they reduce the number of resources available to legit players if they are farming Herbs or Ore; and affect the price of items on items in the AH making it hard for legit players to earn funds for their characters from crafting and item sales above what a vendor will pay (which is often less than the value of the raw mats that are needed to make things).
No, Bliz should have staff members that actually read the reports that we send in to report the bots and examine the accounts involved. And when they ban someone they should be banning NOT just the account but also any credit card associated with the name from starting a new account.
Does this mean that you believe lower quality results in higher stock value, such that it leads to things like increased revenue and subscription numbers?
