That is a lie.
They’ve been absolutely consistent with this stance since at least as far back as 2011:
https://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/215264-blizz-mining-bots-are-everywhere-again/
You say others don’t have a clue, but no one was talking about RL laws and policing, this is about in game ToS, which you should read some time, you might learn something and think before you speak/spew garbage from your pie hole and attack others. Blizz most certainly can stop botters, but new ones with new methods will come along after. Do we as the community get paid to help Blizz stop botting… no but we can help keep the cost of our beloved game at it’s current price, and most importantly help keep the integrity in tact of a game that many of us started playing so many years ago, and continue to play today. If you don’t want to bother reporting bots or cheating b/c you think it’s a waste of time, then don’t, but don’t talk all high and mighty and complain about them or Blizzards system if you aren’t going contribute to stopping it. Blizz can’t catch them all, but if everyone tried to help by using that report button then there would certainly be far less of them than there are now.
There are multiple interviews from gold sellers that directly refute that. One for example had 400,000 WoW accounts. Another example is Wowheads history (purchased by gold farming company).
If Blizzard is saying 400k is not worthwhile, as you’ve linked, then you know that is an absolute lie.
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Lets not forget they let bots run amok in retail for years and didnt lower the hammer until they lost that lawsuit against the one bot company.
Yeah sure, they paid a lot of lip service to it but I was still doing IoC with damn near the same 38 bots for over 2 years.
Edit: As an aside, integrity and WoW are not two things that go togther, classic included.
And while its easy to point the finger at blizzard just remember you probably got a few guildmates stokin that fire.
You can believe the thieves if you want. Not the kind of people I’d take the word of.
Normally, I would agree.
Except one of these companies was funded by a publically held US company (Goldmann Sachs) and they reported $500 million in revenue in 1 year.
This same company shifted and purchased Allakhazam, Thottbot, Wowhead, and more.
These acquisitions and the sheer size of the operation meant that a lot of people were involved. These people have done many interviews over the years.
Yes, this is real.
The dollar amounts involved with bots is staggering. This includes the massive revenue for Blizzard, hence their not taking direct action that is, at this point, industry standard to ptevent botting as it would substantially impact their revenue.
Even leveling this lock, I’ve seen 3 bots in the starting zone already
All mages, and they all do the same thing. Pull mob, kill it, sit down to drink and eat to full, go loot mob, repeat.
One of them bugged out and ran back and forth for 2 minutes straight, until he spun around really fast, paused, then went back to killing mobs
I also watched a mage run into the blacksmith of Brill, target the vendor, run out to the road, pause for 2 seconds, then run back in and repeat. She did this for 4 HOURS. 4 hours of the same repeat running back and forth in the exact same path. Idk wtf she was doing as she was only lvl 7, but it was weird
It also made me think, if I can spot a bot this easily, Blizz would definitely be able to spot them if they bothered to actually monitor in the game. The bots are very obvious
Region lock US servers
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