changes, no changes, nothing matters if bots aren’t handled before they begin farming.
even an inefficient bot justifies the fee in a few days. this rolls into a big katamari ball of boosting, gold selling, and credit card funded gdkp. aka fresh doomsday clock.
- primitive bots making it all the way to 60 using the same input loop
- bots boosting bots
- rogue bots endlessly pickpocketing BRD
- 5man multiboxing parties inside stratholme
- ZG mages flying inside instances…
saying these can’t be automatically banned is an insult to blizzard programmers
no more excuses
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Signed. I guess when there are no more GMs left it went rampant.
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The botting issue is just crazy. It takes 2 seconds for you and I to spot a bot and it farms for months before getting banned. These bots should extremely easy to spot using simple data points. Its not like the old super fancy bots like Honor buddy where it was extremely difficult to identify them since they behaved like normal players. I wish blizzard would take the approach like private servers where you can see the names of people getting banned and why.
In classic I reported these druids doing the cage quest off the coast of decolace. They would farm the cages and do the repeatable quest for 50 silver a turn in. I reported them over and over for several month and they stayed on my buddy list for nearly 6months before they disappeared. I image they were making hundreds of gold a day for months and month. It should be fairly simple to identify a character on 24/7 that has completed a repeatable quest thousands of times…but alas it took months and months for them to get banned.
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I truly think Blizzard’s automated system approach is not doing anything worth a dam at all versus having a Fulltime GM look at bot reports and sites to confirm. I guess they are so greedy they prefer to have bots paying for the sub.
Give me an 8 hour shift standing by ZG across different realms for flying mages I’d probably have a 300 kill count by the end of the day.
All the hunter’s that used to run under the DM floor and float in the air into DM N for 2 years. They would float the end boss and kill it without opening any doors to get to him. All data points that should have easily identified an exploit.
Here’s the thing: blizzard primary concern these days is making money.
This is why I have always been of the opinion that botters should not be banned, being paid subs after all. Instead, there should be a dedicated hidden server, where when found, bots would be forcibly moved to, where only bots exist. They could never transfer back to other servers.
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They don’t care. It’s all about subs.
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How did pservers ban bots if pservers didnt have bots? Do you think the free to play detered them from creating another bot? How fast were they banned. Level 1? What percentage of bots got banned on pservers.
Players on pservers commented that prices in pservers and on classic were very close so how much of an effect do bots have?
Pservers had bots, but obvious pathing bots like Mages and Hunters would have not been ignored and investigated.
Blizzard didn’t do anything despite the rampant botting happening that was more than obvious. Sad that a skeleton crew of people on private servers did a better job.
Pservers had more motive as mentioned in this thread. Bots = subs for blizzard, while Private servers view them differently.
honestly, I don’t think blizzard is going to do anything about the bots. so reduce your expectations in that regard. bots WILL mess up the economy, it’s only a matter of time.
personally, i am able to tune them out for the most part and still enjoy the game.
Pservers banned a lot of legitimate players based on player reports. It was a mess
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Do you want the ‘classic experience’ or not, make up your mind bro we have women to turn into fruit.
Pretty soon they are going to replace Alexstraza in game with a strawberry.
Yes, because players never misrepresent and lie about why they were banned.
And people never report out of spite to get rid of the competition.
Blizzard has automated EVERYTHING, and they rely on doing the bare minimum to still get paid. They won’t address this issue because it would cost money. It’s insanely short sighted because spending the money on a solid GM core/team of people who enforce the rules…answer tickets…police servers isn’t spending at all. It’s an investment that pays off down the line. It keeps people subbed and i would venture the cost is far outweighed by the return. When the community as a whole is respected and an open line of communication is kept, when things appear to be “under control” rather than just going on for months and months without notice…it keeps players paying their subs, but blizzard is ran by short sighted people drowning in their avarice and greed. RIP WoW classic…private servers was where you died.
yeah I think they are trying to automate everything too. if it can’t be automated reliably and consistently, it ain’t happening. blizzard has to cut costs somewhere and this is what they’ve chosen.
Oh please. I think doth protest too much. They do not ban from reports alone. Hell, they do not even ban anymore.
i used to GM on various private servers over the years and it took less than a minute to find a bit, determine if they are a bit, and ban them.
Simply went to the reporter players location, observed for a few, teleport the player behind a wall and watch reaction. Bots would either keep running into the obstruction, do a very robotic combination of strafing, turning, and backpedaling to find a waypoint to reattach to, or simply insta DC as a safety measure. At times we would teleport them to the jail on gm island to observe the response.
It would take one part time college intern to fix the bot problem for all classic servers.
However, the issue comes to them not wanting to staff other GMs to handle botter appeals. Which is easy but gets time consuming. Private servers weren’t there to care about customers because them running a server was generally a passion project.