Especially my Droods. They not bots, but they sus.
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It isn’t possible to get all of them. It’s like playing whack a mole. All they can do is do their best, and ban wave them. They have an entire team where that’s their entire job. (The hacks team, where Thor from Pirate Software used to work.)
What? Literally none of that is true lol.
Every bit of it is true, no matter how much you want to bury your head in the sand and deny it.
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Do you have a source or is this just the trust me bro angle?
My God. Shots fired.
Is it because they make more money that way? Because obviously it is.
And you will never have transparency. Why would they tell the bot makers how they catch them?
Maybe not all, but let’s be real here
New account
Makes a druid
Immediately starts farming gold, and only farming gold.
Golly gee, I wonder what it is!
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Needs an AI update, to actively monitor and look for patterns. Then report findings to a human who will take the necessary action.
A bot will run a repetitive pattern and never pause, a complicated matter for a human to review logs to find them. This would be a simple task for AI. Why not use it?
Yep, from the horse’s mouth. Or the sleepy panda’s mouth. Just search the CS forum, Vrak and Orylia have talked about this MANY MANY times.
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idk about the billions part but the cartel thing is true, there are massive groups involved with blackmarket game trading. it is massive amounts of money but idk about billions
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Someone also posted a video above about the benefits of doing it that way. Which those points have been covered over and over already. If you don’t believe those are part of the reason it’s handled the way it is, I’m not going to try and convince you.
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It’s billions. Yeah, they probably wouldn’t make billions just from WOW, but that’s only a small facet of what they do. They aren’t just involved in games. They’re also involved in drugs, money laundering, credit card fraud, and terrorist financing.
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I believe some of them are factors but I also believe that it is simply cost effective to handle it the way they do. This mostly outweighs the implied (will shy from ‘alleged’) benefits of their approach. We around here mostly agree on that being the case for so many things and I’m not sure why this would be an exception.
once again this is debatable. but there are large groups aligned in the gaming industry.
It’s their game. They own it all. Right down to the characters, achievements, toys, mounts, etc. They can do as they please, and we can vote with our bank accounts… the thing WE own.
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I hate when I am out farming, people call me a bot… it’s like they don’t even know what the term really means anymore.
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That would literally be the nicest thing I’ve been called while farming.
People gotta grow thicker skin out here. If you aren’t a bot then who in the actual Point Nemo gives a crap?
Oh, I’m not denying that it’s potentially more cost effective. I’ve just seen many people claim that blizzard makes huge amounts of money off the bots or even have bots themselves, which is silly.
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I think they make plenty of money, not huge, but I do believe their approach is a net profit for them. The bot accounts included. They allow enough profit to be made to incentivize new hardware in order to come back.
Which is precisely why they take this approach. “Industry standards” simply mean that it is a net W for the industry.
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