Blizzard logic
Oh btw all you have to do is type
/blackrock in “who” for zones blizzard
Your entire bar will fill up with deathknights.
I can hold your hand if you need help blizzard just ask.
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Call me dumb, but could you not also go to Blackrock with a DK and farm gold as well? I mean, fight fire with fire and all.
Not that it is a solution to the bots, but until Blizzard addresses it, we must do what we can right?
Yeah bro I dont have 24 hours 7 days a week to do that.
Bots do though
If you buy gold, regardless of your justification, you should be perma banned.
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What is there to even spend large amounts of gold on?
Brian loves it. Its a win-win for him. Bots keep farming and ruining the economy and Blizzard gets subs from the bots. And the broken economy means GDKPers make good money from RMTers who buy from the bots and Brian is a big GDKPer and benefits from that too. Thats right, I said it. This loser ruined WOTLK for his own personal gain.
That’s not the point the point is massive amounts of gold get circulated into the economy. Which causes all prices to get inflated.
The normal means of making gold such as Dailies, professions “bots also ruin professions”
And other means are made insignificant.
It forces you to buy profession mats off the ah which feeds the bots gold.
So when certain sought after items are over 50k which is just insane. Some people buy the gold from bots.
It’s a vicious cycle that boils down to bots being the problem.
It’s hilarious because I bet you if blizzard started permabanning. the botters would buy more subscriptions as to which blizzard could just keep banning them and get even more money.
That is until the botters commit suicide because this is their only source of income
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Do you have proof that its a bot? and not some player farming XYZ on some random named alt? If its part of a larger bust do you shut down the small 100G farmed bot or find the accounts of ones hoarding millions of gold for sale? Do you find the Johns buying and perma them or simply a time out?
These are thing Blizzard has to answer before simply giving the boot. Anytime there is a perma ban the person would cut ties to the purchase and could try and charge back which is a giant pain in the butt.
They have a built in system that detects bots which is pretty good but as its locally installed and needs to run to scan memory its easy for software to check to see if its running and turn off itself. The alternative is how riot has theirs and force run startup and run in kernal 0 while not giving access to the code which is a big nono for security in IT.
Banning buyers is a good idea in theory and Blizz talked about this a while ago. I cannot find the post but they discussed why perma banning gold buyers is useless. the TLDR is that they simply remake new account and since new account isnt personal to them since their main is perma banned they buy gold to catch up thus making more gold buying. They saw a decrease in this behaviour by temp banning and actively watching them after. Using the info they get from buyers to find the groups of people developing the bots to shut them down.
its a very hard issue to tackle and I bet they have teams actively working on solutions but if they go on forums saying “We are making an update to the bot detection” then its easy for a bot creator to be like…“So we turn off and update our bot early”.
DMC was one reason.
Blizzard only goes after bots quarterly. Have to make sure that quarterly report shows high numbers to shareholders.
Pretty much. ALso by that time the bots made enought money for them to justify rebuying in.
There’s so much money in owning these sites that even Steven Bannon the former White House Strategist owned WoW gold selling sites and bot sites.
I wouldn’t doubt that some of the employee’s at Blizzard are getting a bit of cash under the table.
it’s one thing when it’s hard to tell if someone is botting
It’s another when it’s so blatantly obvious that a huge pattern is being formed across at least a hundred characters…
Like really man deathknights being rolled and just immediately booking it to blackrock depths?
GDKPs are a reason to spend gold
Yup, this is the answer I was phishing for. Thank you.
Flasks on Benediction are 7.5g each.
Potions of Speed are 5g each right now.
Option A: Waste work hours going after players for no good reason and sending all your gold trading revenue to China.
Option B: Put in tokens then sit back and take the revenue.
Anyone with a normal working brain should see that B is better, but Blizzard is still clung to A. Worse yet is that they’d put in boosts, which would just be used by bots to get running faster. So even if they ban a bot, it’ll just come right back with a new boost. But I guess Blizzard is fine with this since now bots buy a boost on top of the sub.
Rather than taking the gold trading revenue for themselves (which makes more sense), they seem content to share it with China. Blizzard is out of all the revenue from gold trading but gets subs/boosts from the bots.
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I think using some brain here we can figure out it probably is a better idea to go after the players if they really want it to stop, considering the bot industry will always be 1 step ahead
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