I don’t have much longer on my sub so I wanted to post this while I still have access. I don’t know if I’ll re-up in the future or not, I might.
I think by now anyone with a brain can see just how bad the bot situation is in WoW classic and for many it’s literally ruining the game.
It’s driving prices up ruining the economy
Certain quests are un-doable due to bots killing every mob (badlands rock elementals, Felwood Furlbogs, Winterspring mobs)
PvP? Infested with bots that sit there doing nothing, gaining both rep and powerful items.
Yet Blizzard largely does nothing and it’s infuriating. The same bots reported months at a time still continuing their scripted movements.
If I don’t re-sub, this will be the sole reason why. Not the gameplay, not the changes that have happened (even though #NoChanges right?), not the completely unbalanced servers.
Bots.
Something Blizzard could do something about but refuse to.
They’ve recently said they care and are in the process of banning them “But it takes time”. However, it is EXTREMELY depressing when you see the same bots running the same routes, using the same scripts, FOR MONTHS and you report said bot FOR MONTHS and nothing happens.
Hell, they even said one of the changes they were going to put into the game was bot detection. It simply seems all that bot detection does is auto flag people who spend or receive large sums of gold (because of the crap economy). Doesn’t seem to have worked out very well does it?
Players get banned for legitimate buying and bots are still out doing their thing.
These two are on farm by more players than bots, on my server anyway. Rep rewards, firewater, and other nice things drop. Firewater sells for 4 Gold each, raiders want it. Are you sure you’re seeing bots on these two?
Blizzard is too busy handing out bans for non-participation in BG’s over scripted bots, multiboxing gold sellers etc… They got their priorities straight for sure
Look here. Blizzard doesn’t care. Just leave and take ur money. They made this game to leech as much money possible with no effort and to protect their IP. Blizzard is full of sociopathic people who don’t care except for money.
I spent quite a bit of time during my ranking journey in the middle of the night killing these things for free honor. They have been getting banned and they disappear more quickly these days. Just keep reporting them.
It depends on how many bots the server has and server PVP competition. Each level 60 bot gives 1000 honor a day per 10 kills. It’s unlikely you could hit rank 11 but you could rank off of them, sure.
The bots are for sure out of control and those are the only ones you see in the world never mind the ones in instances.
I’ve level’ed up 3x 60’s now, and have 2x 35 bank alts. All zones to mid 40’s is flooded with bots. It’s almost to easy to identify them as well, always not in a guild, 99% of the time a mage, 100% all BoE items.
Hard to believe a player in their 40’s would have no trinkets and every item equipped is a BoE green, even the rings. This is just at a first glance, I’ve reported so many while leveling and yet there they still are in the same zones doing the same thing, same path but weeks later.
I remember back in 2005 Blizzard was very vocal about their ban waves, now it’s almost as it’s a “They’re paying a sub, if we ban them we don’t make money” kind of thing.
They absolutely did, posted on the forums when examining their suspension system. Their rational was that bans were less effective than suspensions.
Sounds crazy, I know. I wish I wasn’t on mobile or I would find it. I’ll do later tonight, or if somebody else finds, please post. It was posted right before Classic launched by that Blizzard rep who used to work at Wowhead, guy with puffy hair, forgot his name.
Ahhh, you’re properly differentiating between a temporary suspension and permanent ban. The nomenclature is important but virtually no one differentiates between them so I assumed you were talking about suspensions when you said bans.
Yeah, I know it’s usually a 6 month suspension for botting.
Bots, multiboxers, players playing 24/7 with 50 alts farming gold to never spend it. super inflation of the economy.
I really hope they’re smart with TBC and make everyone reroll instead of transfering characters. The game economy is going to be broken before the game even starts.