Nope. I’m here to incessantly flame Blizzard until they put our money where their mouth is and actually HIRE PEOPLE to investigate bot reports.
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No they don’t.
Of course they do, every bot is a sub. The only bots they don’t make money off of are bots that are on hacked accounts and those are conveniently the only bots they will ban.
Any bot on a valid account paying a sub doesn’t get banned. It may get hit with a 6 month ban every 6 months in a ban wave. But then the botter only needs 2 valid accounts to be able to bot year round without any real repercussions.
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Man they’re just paying lip service. Do you even play this game? Ever left stormwind? I donno maybe you’re not on a mega server like me. Join Herod and try to farm anything in the open world and see what you run into. Literally. Everything. Is. Botted. 24/7.
EDIT for emphasis: Literally. Everything.
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It’s sad when gdkp runs are good money makers primarily because of gold buyers inflating the price of all these items
Blizz doesn’t care
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They really do not. I feel like it’s part of the reason they’re rushing content too. People are so distracted with Naxx coming so soon that they don’t even care about the bot issue and with the content coming out so fast are probably having to buy gold to even keep up.
And what other option do they have? The bots are already farming everything so even if you were to try they’d cut into your profits so much you might as well just buy gold from them.
This leaves Blizzard right where they want to be, profiting off of the player AND the bot subs. It’s honestly customer abuse.
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This. Solo dungeons / boosting lowbies is god awfully boring but the only effective way to make money
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Yea, I really love world pvp/gathering but all the best spots are SO botted now that I can’t compete.
I can kill a Horde player, I can deny an Alliance player enough that they leave.
A bot is forever.
I have a 60 lock, 60 mage, 60 hunter gold farming isn’t hard, can be repetitive and boring but at least I’m not broke and don’t have to worry about future being banned
It’s honest work, someone had to do it
My server has almost 3x your servers population.
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To be fair those are the 3 classes that can farm gold the quickest and easiest in Classic. Lol
Mages boosting, locks doing jump runs, and hunters doing Dmt runs.
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Had a friend who botted from 2006-2011
Only got caught once finally in 2011 and used the excuse to quit for good. Blizzard has been very inconsistent when it comes to banning bots. I didn’t even know he was botting until he was banned and he admitted why
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Blizzard makes the game and presents it to players as is. Players play the game according to the features, restrictions, and loopholes that are part of the game. Players are unable to effect changes in the game or control the behavior of other players.
I don’t understand why that’s such a tough concept.
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No the RMTers and their bots and scripts play the game outside of the restrictions and Blizzard is too cheap to do anything about it.
I agree with you. Botting is well beyond what I think any reasonable person would consider ‘out of control’.
Don’t resort to buying gold though, there are plenty of instanced farms that are quite lucrative, maybe try one of those for the time being.
It definitely sucks that your favorite farm spot has been overrun by bots don’t stoop to their level though!
If you roll a druid you will pay little to no gold for your gear. That way you don’t have to roll a mage or buy gold, 200IQ plays. Gear just falls from trees for us.
Obviously yes. And you should advertise the site you buy the gold from with in game mail and on the forums in game and here. I think you could probably get a commission from the gold selling site and prove how right you are that blizzard does absolutely nothing.
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I understand that. But the flaws are in the game that allow this to happen, and as you note, Blizzard is not dealing with this. If they weren’t too cheap to allocate the resources, they could develop ways to detect this as they have done in the past.
But my point is that it’s not a “community problem”. It’s not something that members of the playerbase who are fed up with this issue have either a responsibility or the ability to deal with it in any way.
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This is 100% on blizzard. You can’t blame the community when the community only has this option to buy gold as a direct result of blizzard not banning bots. Who exactly could people buy from if these bots weren’t running around selling it dirt cheap? I can assure you people wouldn’t be paying mages 80g(4 people paying 20g) per mara boost if the inflation wasn’t so ridiculous either.
The gold buying, dungeon boosting and overall inflation is entirely blizzards fault. They can detect these programs and are harassing people about multi boxing software(which i actually agree with) and tmorph but yet they can’t quickly detect complete automation programs that run 24/7 for weeks on end lol? They can 100% detect these bots but like others have said it’s easy money for them, hence why they wait to ban them in waves.
If they banned them often like they should be doing the botting wouldn’t be worth doing because by the time you hit high enough to bot properly you would be banned and they would quit signing accounts up just to lose money. Which would end up costing blizzard money too since the botters would quit paying for accounts.
Blizzard never thinks about this stuff long term though. they think ohh yay we got X amount of botters paying us money a month. They don’t consider the tons n tons of paying customers they made quit by allowing this botter mess occur. It’s the same thing as server transfers being added. They killed many servers and made a ton of people quit with them just to take the money from the people that transferred for a good quarterly report. It’s never about player retention or keeping the games good, its about ripping people off with extra service charges and accepting money from bots before taking care of the actual players in an attempt to keep them playing.
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