Search Dead Mire, any 58+ dungeon, Sholozar Basin, or any low level mining/herb zone and you’ll see legions of undead bots with DK flare. From fly hacking, to no clipping, to trains of bots following identical paths is hilariously obvious how ToS is being violated…but with little response from Blizzard.
I’ve taken a long break from Classic to enjoy FF14, came back to see how brightly the dumpster fire was burning and am not surprised in the least…
Between month long tickets, bugs that have existed since beta, the open and accepted real money trading, and massive abuse of bots and hacks it’s clear that Blizzard has abandoned Classic. Their behavior seems uninterested in putting forth any effort in player retention and instead are focusing on pumping out short-term purchases aimed towards whales.
Private servers and other popular MMOs don’t have nearly these levels of issues and neglect. Classic devs insulted our intelligence when they claimed RDF couldn’t be added because of teleportation that killed the open world while simultaneously offering paid boosts that kill lower level zones.
We need to stop enabling Blizz. Support developers that put effort into their games, ones that don’t treat their playerbase with disdain. “Classic” is less Classic than pservers. It’s a sad state of affairs. Won’t be resubbing. I’ve seen enough.
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NB4 Loomsblay gets in here to spend four hours explaining that the characters aren’t bots and nobody has any reliable method for determining if a character is a bot.
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Does that degenerate still live on these forums? That’s unfortunate and unhealthy.
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I’ve seen people complain on the forums, and even some video clips, but I have yet to encounter even small numbers, yet alone legions of bots in the open world!
And if you don’t look at the sky does it cease to be there?
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Blizzard thanks you for your $15 contribution to post on these forums.
Meanwhile, the rest of us will be enjoying the game.
I fly around gathering all the time on my gathering alt druid. Perhaps my server doesn’t have the “Legions” of bots that yours does.
Dunno where the legions of bots are and I haven’t experienced any bugs that cause the game to be unplayable beyond the bug that insta disconnected you when a DK chains of frosted you on a flying mount
Mind you, I’ve only done every single quest in northrend, gotten exalted with every faction and have done all raid achievements… so there’s probably some aspects of the game you’ve touched that I have not yet for all of these crazy bugs
…but I also don’t overreact too much so ¯_(ツ)_/¯ I guess go play final fantasy and be a cat girl
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I can’t be the only one who is bothered that OP didn’t describe how botting is a business model.
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Blizzard has a business model based on selling subs to bots, pretty easy connection to make.
People who say there arent bots are being willfully ignorant.
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And people who say there are “legions of bots” are grossly exaggerating. Of course, it would be nice if you could point to anywhere we could go and confirm even small numbers of bots.
Go to Deadmire in Zangermarsh, see the dozens of bots in that tiny area on any layer. /who ZF, BRD, Strat etc etc etc and youll see nothing but DKs with wonderful names like “jhudfnk”.
Willful ignorance by a DK no less.
Well yeah, you’ll have to say which server(s), because there are 0 in Deadmire in Zangarmarsh on Skyfury right now.
I’m flying around looking…
What’s with people who make patently false or excessively hyperbolic claims on the forums attacking others with ad hominem?
Made an alt on Skyfury. On layer 1 on the brand new server there are currently 8 Death Knights in The Dead Mire…so I guess you are just dishonest along with willfully ignorant.
Like people who claim, “There are no bots. Trust me bro!”
Those bots are paying for subs and boosts.
It’s clear one of us is lying. There weren’t even 8 DKs in Zangarmash when I was there earlier.
One level 64 DK on alliance, a 62, 63 and 64 on horde. And I messaged them Hi and got a response from each.
Rule 1 of lying… Don’t do it when it’s so easily verifiable. You’ll just embarrass yourself as you’ve done here…
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Interesting how there is no denial that it’s occurring just “trust me bro, I haven’t seen it on this brand new server at this time!”.
Now go check a server people actually play on, where gold selling can make money…
Guess the community reaps what it sows. Enjoy WoW Mobile. 
No one said bots dont exist. Ive seem them, I know they exist.
What we’re refuting is this claim that theres some kind of botting epidemic where whole zones are being taken over because thats just not reality.
But just for the sake of objectivity I still figured Id check. Turned out the only Dks in Zangarmarsh on the specific server he claimed was overrun by a bot army were a couple of real flesh and blood god-fearing players and not bots at all… So dude was just flat lying…
But the point being… While bots exist theyre not near the problem yall like to pretend they are and Blizz is obviously working to combat them… But its a cat and mouse game and one no company on the planet has ever truly won… They design new anti-bot technology, the other side designs work-arounds. Rinse/repeat.
That doesnt mean theres some grand bot conspiring wherein Blizzard is secretly abetting the botting companies for their own nefarious ends… Though Im sure thatd make a great segment on Alex Jones…