Bots in ZG working 24/7

Bots are ruining the game economy farming Zul’Gurub 24/7.

If we had only 1 human GM to check this(type /who zul’gurub mage)

7 a.m and more than 100 bots farming

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I think this is a much bigger issue than blizzard realizes. The bots throw the economy out of whack and are a massive detriment to the game. It truly amazes me, because it seems like there are some easy fixes to get them out, yet little seems to be done.

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cause each bot is a sub, the more bots they ban the less subs they have

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It isn’t that they don’t realize; it’s that they don’t care. A bot is still a sub. That’s all that matters.

Blizz made the botting situation so much worse by selling a boost. And soon bots can buy a 70 farming machine and it’ll be even more lucrative.

Eventually Blizz ‘fixes’ the problem by adding the Token. Now you can buy all the gold you want!

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They need to let them farm as much as possible for as long as possible and then they hit a ban wave.

Either it’s a perma close which means blizz gets a new sub

OR

It’s a temp ban which means blizz gets a new sub AND keeps the old one because blizz knows the botters will want all their stuff back.

It’s all about the Benjamins, baby

Some countries make this very difficult. For example, if a country has a law that allows someone to purchase a 2nd license for $1.00. A ban is meaningless.

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This seems like the most logical answer, but I would think the subs they’re losing by players giving up and not playing anymore due to the bots would supersede the bot subscription revenue. And I guess I’m a little naïve that Blizzard would intentionally allow bots to make money on their subs, but I can’t argue your point.

That’s a horrible way to do it because it allows the bots to profit over the cost of sub/boost before they get hit. At that point the account is expendable. They will simply sub/boost a new one and come right back. So long as it profits before the account is lost, they are in business.

Sadly, this is what Blizzard already does. They want the subs/boosts.

I remember a long time ago Mark Jacobs from Mythic Entertainment saying that they were approached by said large scale farming groups. With the suggestion that a cut of the proceeds would be given to them if they allowed them to operate.

Now I never thought much about it because earlier in Dark Age of Camelot you had been allowed to sell gold on ebay. I mean in the early days with games like Ultima Online people sold everything on ebay. There was even an account transfer service eventually added to UO.

The main issue with DAoC wasn’t players seeing bots farming. It was people using radar as it was called in RvR. Years and years went by with Mythic doing nothing about obvious users of said program. You know when they finally did a ban wave? Right in between the launches of EQ2 and WoW. The extremely gifted community manager (this is sarcasm) even posted that you’d know who had been temp banned as they would claim to be “playing one of the new games”.

Well the DAoC servers were soon dead and the WoW population exploded… I doubt all of those people were temp banned.

Anyway the point of that story is eventually if you do mostly nothing long enough there is a price. So when player numbers drop far enough there won’t be enough people buying gold to justify the bot accounts. Then instead of just losing one form of subscription you lose both. You’d think since some company decided to offer a large amount of money to buy this company and they have share holders to answer to… that at some point people might think about this stuff.

It’s no different then letting toxic people drive away subscribers and doing nothing. It literally defrauds investors… but nobody really talks about that.

Just my opinion of course.

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that would bankrupt the small indie company bro
ya have to think in poor BobbyK his $500 million end year bonus wont be paying itself!

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Not really they pay there sub with gold on retail.

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You realize that just means someone else is paying their sub, right? And for $20 instead of $15.

Hey if blizzard can find people to pay 20 bucks for gold more power to blizz i say… i farm gold 24/7 why would i pay 15 a month when i can just use gold.

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That’s what everyone who buys and sells a token is doing…

Exactly bots dont pay 15 bucks a month they buy tokens off AH for blizzadd.

I didn’t disagree. I said all that means is someone else is paying for their sub, and for $20 instead of $15.

Lol its the greatest scam of all and people think the token is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

It is indeed. And the point is there’s no incentive for Blizz to combat farmers. They make more money off them.

They do occasional bans for good PR and so bots have to buy another sub or boost. That’s it.

Simple solution, stop banning the bots.

Put them on their own hidden layer with a separate AH, mail, exc.

There was a shooter game that did this, and basically if you were caught cheating you now only played vs other cheaters.

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What does ruining the game economy mean? Is it devaluing the gold that you have? Do you have some examples of how it is noticeable?

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