Any word on when another ban wave is coming? The amount of DK bots in AV is almost comical.
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Never. Botting is allowed in WoW.
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Bots are subs too.
since in wow classic alot they can’t even bot retail much. so they aren’t tokening for free.
Or crapping up retails bg’s. retail is thus much cleaner. retail is good now…all that matters it seems. Why do think we can’t fly non dragon. bots? hard as helll to bot that. The Little dragon is gonna crash and burn. and even druids…ride dragons. so the druid the herb bots can’t just travel form it for hours.
Azeroth is turning into a fully automonous society. I blame the gnomes and their quest for more self aware technologies.
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I leveled a mage through the 61-70 bracket a month or two ago and I don’t remember there being any bots. @Blizzard claims they play the game, but I find that very hard to believe. They could easily clean up the problem by having one or two folks run AV and/or stake out various farming routes for an hour or two on various servers. Tell me this isn’t a cash grab on Blizzard’s part without telling me this isn’t a cash grab on Blizzard’s part.
Blizz- “LFD ruins the social aspect of game.”
Also Blizz- “Bots? What bots?”
(For the record, I’m only using this as an example, not as a pro-LFD post)
I’ll try to provide a more helpful response. No, there has been no word on when the next banwave will hit, and tbh I see no real reason to make it public if and when it would occur, but banwaves are incredibly infrequent, so much so that if a banwave hit tomorrow it really wouldn’t even matter. Unless these banwaves came in consistent large batches and stayed consistent, bots will always be here in droves. The problem is, Blizzard is not consistent enough with banwaves to make a difference.
Sure they can ban 50k bots tomorrow, but I can guarantee they will all be back in the next 2 days. Not just that, anyone that bots likely has at least 20 different active accounts to bot from. Sure maybe 5-6 of them are caught in the wave, and slapped with a 1 month ban, but those 5-6 have already RMT’d so much that they can afford to remake all the accounts lost, and boost the accounts. All it costs them is the time to level… which they’ll probably bot their way through anyway and let’s not forget about the 14 backup accounts they have that weren’t caught. Yes they have to repay their sub, but their subfees is just a drop in the bucket for how much they’ve RMT’d already. Money made through RMT can easily cover having to resub and boost a new 70.
I think this is why Botting has become such a huge issue. Blizzard isn’t willing to do what it takes to actually take care of the problem be that with weekly bot banwaves, GM’s constantly on the lookout for active bots, hiring more GM’s to monitor WoTLK or even investing into a better anti-cheat system. That’s the problem. Without doing the above, botting will always be a major issue. There’s literally no reason not to when they don’t get caught, and when they do, they’re only slapped with a 30 day ban, and instead will bot from 5 of their other 19 accounts instead.
TLDR: No one knows and tbh, it wouldn’t make a lick of a difference even if they did it tomorrow. Ban length is nothing, botters have 20+ active accounts to bot from when caught, they already RMT’d more than enough to fund having to resub and boost if they’re caught and Blizzard isn’t willing to do what it takes to actually do anything meaningful and long term about the problem.
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It does matter because the more bots that get banned, the more RMT they need to recover, the higher the gold cost will be. The higher gold/$, the less popular it’ll be.
Banning bots won’t eliminate gold selling, but it will hurt it. The issue is they’re letting them stay active too long under the guise that they’re making it harder to reverse-engineer their detection methods. This gives them a large enough of a return on their subscription fee to keep going.
However, the reality is, Blizzard doesn’t want to invest in a more “real-time” approach to the issue because whatever metric they’re using to estimate the impact of the bot activity on real players hasn’t shown it to be worth the investment (yet?). If we want them to change, we need to literally cancel our subscriptions with the reasoning provided being “too many bots.”
Gold was at it’s alltime high in classic, and is still did absolutely nothing. Bot still botted tens of thousands of gold and RMT’d. They have more than enough to resub, boost and go back to business. That’s why they are so blatant with botting and don’t care if they get caught because it literally means nothing. There was a bot idk if it was on the forums or reddit of someone having found their way into a bot discord and spoke with someone who runs a bunch of bots who basically told him they’re not concerned about being banned, the amount of gold farmed and RMT’d is disgusting and can easily cover the costs to restart while still having left the botter with more than enough profit. RMT’ing sustains the bots. When 1 door closes, they can afford to open about 5 windows and STILL walk away with a pretty profit. And regardless of price, people will still pay. Why? because people value their time over their money.
Blizz, I don’t complain on here very often, but the lack of action on botting in pvp is very frustrating. It’s ruining the game. Please take action.
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Bobby is probably blackmailing the botters, making them pay double or triple subscription fee and 30% of gold profits.
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Welcome to bots of botcraft, the most resent classic expansion.
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I’ve been wondering this myself for months OP 
I forgot blizzard is a small indiana company.
bump
Now we will get you the attention you deserve
The DK bots are false advertisement. We pay $15/mo to play with real players. Blizzard passing them off as real players when they are not is literal false advertisement like what No Man’s Sky did.
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They were never sued for false advertising actually. Try again
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