Blizzard must 'allow' advertisements

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Go to premade groups and dungeons and you will no doubt find at least 10 to 20 of these third party advertisements. This spam is very easy to counteract via code, it’s also very simple to immediately ban repeat offenders.

I can only imagine one reason this is as comically intrusive as it is: There are exceptions to the rule.

No matter how many you report. They keep popping up and what bothers me most is the text/string descriptions of these advertisements are blatant and easy to filter and penalize. So why do I see so many? Why are there not more countermeasures in place?

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They’re using brand new accounts. Explain how it is very simple.

They’ll just edit around the filters.

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Yeah I report them every time and every time it’s a slightly tweaked but still different name

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The reason I don’t buy that is because the address is not altered in a lot of these spam groups.

Do you not need to be a certain level to make a group for mythic keystones?

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Getting to level 10 takes 5 minutes

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Why on earth would the level requirement be 10 in that case? No character below 80 should be making a party for a M+ dungeon in the most extreme requirements.

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Answer: money

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Group finder is locked until level 50, but because the selling of RMT boosts is making them enough irl money, they can just buy the level 70 boost (or TWW and use the free one) for their advertising accounts.

If you want this problem to stop, players need to stop buying from them.
If enough people are looking to buy something, there will inevitably be someone who finds a way to sell it.

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That’s mostly because these bot accounts have literally thousands of accounts that they spin up every day. Then they level them in a few days and bam! New spam bot for the group finder.

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If there was no market for those sites they would not do it, blame the community for buying from them so they keep coming back

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what you are asking is a “techological arms race” of perpetual escalation. Let me explain.
Blizzard adds code. Bots find anti-code (I know that’s not what it is, just follow along)
Blizzard adds code to counter anti-code. But Bots already know blizzard will do that, so they are already creating anti-anti-code to counter the anti-code. This cycle continues in perpetuity. Forever.
We can see real life examples of that in real life with…well, I can’t think of any off-hand examples that wouldn’t get me banned for talking about politics and such. But I am sure somebody else has or can present an example of what I mean.

Can I say that a good example is the "War on ‘Drugs’ "? They fight the bad guys, but the bad guys are willing and able to take steps that the good guys can’t or won’t take. It has a non-zero chance of having true resolution, aka nobody will ever truly win until a different solution is found.

Personally? As an anecdote? I don’t get the same experience you get. In my experience across 13 characters every expansion? I have more trouble with people making groups, that have no idea what you need to make a solid group. They get some addon or some weird elitist guide to tell them what is the best path and the best group composition when you consider the meta and blah blah blah…People actually mess up their own progress remaining ignorant of how the game works and so they never learn and it restricts everybody else.

The only solution to the above is to make my / your own group and that’s when it does get better, but only a little bit. Point is, no matter what you do there is going to be a problem.
Personally, I think you need to use your filter better. Find a specific piece of gear that you want or need. Find what M+ or Raid that you need to go into. Raids are, in my experience, more likely to have advertisements. The game has been advertised as “EPIC MULTIPLAYER RAIDS AGAINST GIANT DRAGONS AND DEMONS AND EXPLOSIONS” so for most of WoW’s history it has been more common to find people in raiding guilds. Even after the introduction of M+, raids were still more popular after all the “let me try a new thing” people got weeded out. So naturally more people are advertising for runs. It’s how some guilds fund their raiding.

It’s actually REALLY expensive to be the Champions of Azeroth, after all…time is money, friend.

So that’s why there are so many. That’s how some guilds make the money to fund raiding and pvp and m+ for 438 people lol.

Personally, I think Blizzard should just add a separate finder for people advertising gold runs, aka you pay gold to get carried through AOTC lol. How do they enforce gold-only runs? I have no idea, but it would solve a lot of the issues…I think.

TL;DR, sorry I don’t know how to tldr this one lol.

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Blizzard bans in waves due to how they study advertisers and bots, then implement code to stop them. Which works for all of five minutes until they all find ways around it. Gor above me has an excellent breakdown of it.

If you have a better way of doing it, then I suggest contacting Blizzard hacks team.

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Okay so let’s ignore the code aspect. Wouldn’t it make sense that only a person with a keystone or at least level 80 is able to create a group for M+? The amount of time invested for the bots to create a spam advertisement would be so great the moment they get banned it would be a massive set back.

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Not really, because there ulterior motives in the Nixon White House for launching the war on drugs.

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What time investment, these guy are cheaters already, ain’t no way they don’t have dozens of bots getting to 80 as they’re advertising, ready to take over when/if they get banned.

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Sure. But LFG isn’t just for M+. And if one category is limited to just that, then they’ll go spam the other LFG categories.

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I’d like to think that. But something tells me that it wouldn’t make that much of a difference. You have to remember that these guys are practically insta-leveling to cap. You can afk a bunch of toons and have a couple others in the same group grinding elites which shares the XP with the afk toons. There’s probably heaps of other ways but that’s one that I know of.

That’s not to say I disagree with you. I also think nobody under the level cap should be able to create an m+ listing.

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It simply makes no sense for a level 40 (50?) character to make a M+ listing. It can only be abused by botters and serves no purpose to legit players.

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The issue is the archaic setup of the group finder. Blizz needs to overhaul its code in order to implement these kind of restrictions. They can’t even work out how to separate legacy raid difficulty levels in the drop down list without triplicating each raid listing.

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I mean, blizzard has the ulterior motive of making the investors their money…doesn’t change the results.