Bots have infested WoW Classic

[Delimicus-heartseeker]

@Wog-aegwynn

Just curious, does anyone know why bots would be saturated in classic but eradicated in retail?

Because Retail has tokens.

[Shocksyou-anathema]

Not exactly true depending on the server. Bots farming could and do actually increase the price of things on some servers. Because they soak up all of the resources and then transfer those resources to other servers where it sells for more. Supply goes down in that case.

[Misadventure-herod]

Simple solution rather than suspending them for 6 months:
Make them flagged as mobs, and drop all loot they are carrying and wearing.

[Priarly-sulfuras]

Blizzard doesn’t care. Bots are ruining wow classic. But what matters is their subscription

[Delimicus-heartseeker]

@Priarly-sulfuras

Blizzard doesn’t care. Bots are ruining wow classic. But what matters is their subscription

Cheating and Botting

That tends to be one of the more ridiculous claims that I’ve come cross throughout the years, but unfortunately, there are those that believe that. Yes, technically, we may be receiving subscription funds from accounts that may be violating our policies. That doesn’t necessarily equate to making money. First, if they really are exploitative accounts, there is a high likelihood that the funds used to pay for game time aren’t legitimate. Either the methods of payment are stolen or the game accou…

[Priarly-sulfuras]

Well, i sent a lot of videos to hacks@blizzard.com in the last 2 months. The same bots still online inflating the entire economy. Blizzard doesn’t care, bots are 24/7 farming Stratholme, Sunkem Temple, Zul’farrak and World Map.

[Mdke-benediction]

“Please continue to report any activity that you believe may be suspect, Nykolaz. It is very much appreciated and helps us a great deal.”

I have reported the EXACT SAME BOTS for over 2 months. Guess what? They are still online botting right now. Just /who and anyone can see they online 24/7. This reply is pathetic blizzard. Sorry

[Wog-aegwynn]

@Delimicus-heartseeker

Because Retail has tokens.

Why would that eradicate bots? Wouldn’t people still need to bot to level, bot to farm, even bot to sell tokens?

Have bots been destroyed on retail through technological means, or just by removing all motivations for botting?

[Sloppynacho-thrall]

so basically a realistic wow Vanilla experience

[Teodril-daggerspine]

@Rabit-atiesh

@Keelon-frostmane

Felwood Furlbogs, Winterspring mobs

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?

Alot of players are crazy paranoid and spend more time worrying about “bots” and “multiboxers” than actually playing the game.

I had my hunter following my mage once (seperate accounts) and had some weirdo following me around asking me “are you a bot?” and trying to test me etc…

Absolute effing nonsense, people like op are wackjobs that think everyone they see who isn’t in a guild is a bot, or if you ignore them your a bot, or if you walk in a straight line for to long your a bot, or if you farm is one spot for to long your a bot.

I level quite a bit, and I have never once seen this bot legion that reddit swears plagues the game.

[Rabit-atiesh]

@Teodril-daggerspine

if you ignore them your a bot

Welp, I guess I’m a bot

@Teodril-daggerspine

if you walk in a straight line for to long your a bot

That’s strike two for me, since I have auto run mouse buttoned and use it ALOT

@Teodril-daggerspine

if you farm is one spot for to long your a bot

This is not looking good for me!

@Teodril-daggerspine

think everyone they see who isn’t in a guild is a bot,

Ahhhh, I’m saved!

I have also noticed if I even suggest they may be wrong, I’m a white knight for Blizzard, who also supports bots. Like someone else said, they have been breathing in too many contrails…

[Nostuns-incendius]

@Keelon-frostmane

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.

1. Bots drive prices down… You know because SO MANY bots are farming materials and posting and bloating the AH with said items…

2. The prices are so high because we have an economy designed for 2,000 population. We have 10k people on some servers fighting over Lotus that is designed for old vanilla populations.

3. There are a ungodly amount of people afking and botting pvp for sure. A majority of the first round of rank 14s were not legit by any means.

4. Pvp is bad in vanilla so Don’t worry it gets much better in TBC

5. Classic re release was about Sub #s period. BFA bombed really bad so they had to stop the bleeding. Shadowlands is shaping up to be just as bad so we WILL get TBC thats 100% guranteed.

Unsub until the good version of wow hits (Burning crusade).

[Zerdorntrozz-dalaran]

kill them,repeatedly

[Priarly-sulfuras]

Blizzard, its time for a ban wave!!!

[Irosk-bronzebeard]

because gold is harder to come by, and leveling takes longer than retail. It was a problem in vanilla and blizzard was combating it. It will never go away and anyone who knew classic was coming back should of seen this.

[Seoken-mankrik]

Do yourself a favor and watch the AH a little closer. On my server the bots dump materials on the auction house periodically (same time within a minute every day) for prices well below market value. At that time I just scoop it all up and resell, I used to hate bots, now I make an extra 400-500g a day taking advantage of their scripts. Figure out a way to profit off of the bots and you will feel much better about them, I promise you that .

Pro tip- once you know they are about to post an item, post it 1x on the AH waaay below market price and watch as they undercut it- and profit!!

[Malipho-kelthuzad]

Take max supply (#nodes times refresh) over time period.

Divide max supply by number of producers (those who put it on market)

The higher this number is, the closer the market is to monopilization.

Bots, multiple accounts, reduce the number of producers. When a handful of producers have most of the supply, price-fixing takes place and prices are inflated.

Real life analogy: diamonds.

If Blizzard wants to fix Lotus prices its super easy:

NPC vendor sells them for say…50g and buys them for 50s.

[Malipho-kelthuzad]

Props. Undermine Journal forum strategy 101. I did this on Faerlina all day, every day.

[Drain-windseeker]

12:32 PM 4/25/2020
They seem to have more concern with censoring people off the forum than regulating the game.

This post is being unnecessarily censored by Blizzard until April 28.

[Bamboozel-lightbringer]

Ya the botting is completely intolerable and the reason I quit. Imagine not hiring one or two GMs per server to look into this and protect the franchise, pepe2hand devs.