Bots are destroying the integrity of the game

I’m just explaining why sub prices haven’t gone up. The majority of their funding comes from purchases like that. They also deliberately design and balance the game around these purchases.

It’s a fairly popular opinion, actually.

Personally, I view the sub as to Classic only. Blizzard would have pay me to play retail, so even 50¢ a day is too much.

Yes. Like many industries, people desire companies to take a cut of their profits to improve quality.

The higher quality product resulting from their care might actually yield greater interest in the game. “Wow, an MMO that actually cares about the botting problem. Maybe I’ll play it.”

They’d make more money by banning them sooner. They get the money no matter how much time the bot actually spends botting (so long as that time isn’t more than 1 month, obviously).

Might as well ban them immediately so the bot buys a sub on a new account.

Its yours and a few others. everyone on these forums thinks that their opinions are popular

View it how you want. Reality is another thing

The day that the money from the # of people quitting over bots outweighs the money the bots bring in they might start caring more. Until then…

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Um…you don’t need to be a bot, in order to do this…

Agree, botting is completely out of control atm…

Bots have started fly hacking BL spawns on the server i’m on because they’re that not worried about being banned.

Ive reported that guy multiple times and even sent blizz a clip of it. Fingers crossed

In the large scale of things, Blizzard will do the minimum in order to keep their WoW Classic player base to the point where those players are already accepting the introduction of WOW TOKEN.
Because, think about it guys, the miracle solution is WoW Tokens.

We all know it is not the miracle solution, it is simply the easiest way for them to maximize their quarterly profits.

Spread the word, BLIZZARD INACTION TOWARDS BOTS IS TO SLOWLY AND CREEPINGLY MAKE WOW TOKENS ACCEPTABLE TO THE PLAYERS.

Remember 1 year ago we all said NO TO WOW TOKENS.

This is the real problem.

Hopefully “soon”. Probably in a few weeks. They’re really only good about it when it’s bots leveling.

You’d think the guy teleporting would send out huge alarms. Like i get that sometimes bots arent easy to find because they are programmed to change routes so that they look like theres a chance they could be players

This guy isnt even trying to hide it

You can debate this all you want it makes 0 difference what version of the game you’re paying for and what version you get for free.

Theres no debate. You get both for 15/mo

I don’t see bots, I see engineers, alchemists, miners and herbalists. People who do the jobs that nobody wants to do themselves. They’re an integral part of the community.

The players reporting them helps I am sure, but there is a lot more that can be done on their end.

I think you and many other companies would be pleasantly surprised what a company that cares will do to attract customers.

They can continue to monetize bots by taking their sub money… just ban them sooner. Everyone wins, except the bots, of course.

No I pay to play classic, I can’t pay less to only play classic. Therefore I get retail for free.

I didn’t even know that the game had “integrity”. I don’t know what that means. But whatever it is, I miss it.

I don’t believe this. I think this is made-up.

Blizzard has a team working against bots every day of the year. The idea that they only work on bots occasionally is false.

But they don’t tell YOU about it. You are the public. You don’t tell the public all the details, because doing that also tells the cheaters. Rule 1 of every fight is not to tell the enemy what you are doing.

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and it doesn’t work.

spend 6 months gathering information to a ‘big ban wave’

less than a week later they are back.

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The integrity of the game was destroyed months and months ago when most guilds were one phasing ragnaros in greens and blues.

In Blizzard’s fantasy world (WoW), they’re responsible for stopping cheaters.

Are they paying you to shill for them?

It has been posted and checked many times. Bots make a substantial amount of blizzard subscription revenue.

We see that rather than remove bots, Blizzard updates the game to require more bots in order do what bots do. For example, the recent 30 day instsnce limit was crafted in a way to require botters operate more accounts to service their needs.

Remember, Vanilla WoW had 1 company alone with 400k bot accounts. Imagine what it is now and what that revenue means to Blizzard.