Blizzard wants to get rid of bots

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I’m suggesting that this is a player-created problem and therefore players ought to bear some responsibility for it and not just sit and complain to Blizzard all day for a fix.

If the game is buggy, that’s totally on the side of the developers and Blizzard. But that’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about problems that have been created by third-parties taking advantage of the client in ways Blizzard has deemed illegal. We’re talking about players knowing full well about this and taking personal advantage of it regardless of any overarching consequences this might have on their server and the game in general.

So, let’s take this for an example:

Gressil sells for 198k in a GDKP run on Gehennas. That is BS and everyone knows it. But, is the guy banned?

No.

How about the people running the GDKP? Are they banned?

No.

They just collect their pot and call it a day, maybe start planning another one for next week. Clearly they’re not interested in fostering the kind of environment that anti-botters want. They want to walk away with their truck-load of gold and not think about how ridiculous it is that some person they were carrying basically bought a fantasy RPG item for $3,500.

Did Blizzard conduct that GDKP?

No.

Did Blizzard force these players into trading?

No.

All the decisions made in that transaction happened on the part of players who only see the current system as something that benefits them regardless of whomever is being cheated by it elsewhere.

As far as I’m concerned, the person who won that Gressil ought to be blacklisted by every guild on the server in addition to the people who ran that GDKP. But, you see, that’ll never happen because of endless excuses people make.

Imagine this:

The person making the trade says, “Woah, dude. Where did you make all that money?! That’s impossible. I’m not giving you that sword, there’s no way you just made all that money farming DME. I don’t believe it. There’s no way.”

Guy is kicked and the bidding continues…

Now, I know what you’re thinking. You think, “Why the hell would you turn down 198k gold?!” Answer: because you know it’s BS. Everyone knows this guy cheated. But 198k gold is just too good to pass up. So they screw over their community. They screw over everyone else trying to play the game fairly. Why? Because they benefit from it personally.

The system, as I see it, is completely broken because the people benefiting from it don’t care about whomever is being cheated by it.

None of this is Blizzard’s fault.

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Nope, it’s objectively Blizzards fault. They make the choice not to ban gold sellers/buyers. Such a thing would be trivial to track, but they don’t do it. So trivial, it can only be motivated by greed (spending less on GMs/programming a basic mail flag system or just refusing to punish cheaters who pay them money monthly. You pick). Blizzard ALLOWS gold selling and buying.

If I owned Chess, made it a rule that you can’t move 3 times in a row, refused to do anything about players cheating and moving 3 times in a row for almost 2 years, and legally threatened players who tried to host their own Chess games where they enforced my rules as written, I would absolutely undeniably be responsibly for every instance of cheating.

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The complete and utter lack of active GMs handling the reports suggests your title is simply false. If they really wanted to get rid of bots, hiring GMs is the most tried & true method. They havent done that, because they dont want to get rid of bots, because bots make them money and hiring GMs costs money.

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That’s ridiculous. It’s like saying doctors want patients to die if they can’t cure them.

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You can join discoords that are the literal discoord support for people who want to bot or pay for botting…

I suggest you join and read how often they have had to do anything to get bots back online in classic…

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I’m having a hard time understanding why blizzard would pay money (gms) to remove income (bot subscribers)… just don’t make sense and if it don’t make cents it don’t make money

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Are you under the impression that Blizzard can’t get a handle on the bot problem if they actually wanted to?

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That’s the thing - do they care about the integrity of the game or not?

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Are all of you the same person? I swear, multiple people have used the “are you under the impression” line on me with regard to this topic. Like you’re all reading from the same page or something. It really is the NPC effect.

It’s people like that who don’t take a second to say to themselves, “Gee, maybe I’m wrong and I should start thinking about how complicated this is instead of just assuming the worst all the time.”

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Its not super complicated actually. They could just hire employees instead of running a skeleton crew for every game they make and POORLY automating everything. Its they cant put out a good game period.

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Oh sorry my bad.

Poor, poor Activision/Blizzard. Let’s all go start a GoFundMe to finance some in game GM’s.

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Good, I’m glad you agree. I’ll be here waiting for you to start one.

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https://massivelyop.com/2018/04/17/bossland-is-freakin-despondent/

Blizzard had pursued Bossland across multiple continents in an attempt to shut down the cheat programs, which Blizz argued violated its copyrights and cost it significant amounts of money to fight – money it was therefore not spending on its own games and customers.

How much money do you think Blizzard spent in this lawsuit against this ONE botting company? And ultimately, even though they won in US courts, they still didn’t receive a penny. But yea… Blizzard is in cohorts with the botmakers and totally wants them to survive. They just spent millions on lawsuits across several continents so people in the forums wouldn’t catch onto them. ITS SO CRAZY ITS BRILLIANT!1