Botting and gold buying is destroying this game

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I simply cannot believe how many bots are active on this game. I came back to level a toon for TBC arena and its kind of insane. A person has 114 stacks of Oily Blackmouth on the AH. I’m constantly asked for water from hunters who then go to desolace / silithus and afk farm when i message them. I see bots leveling, free honor I guess. It is really scuffed.

To accompany that, it seems like gold buying is simply fine. I’ve been in multiple GDKPs now with multiple folks admitting to buying gold saying “Blizzard doesn’t ban you, I’ve bought gold X times now”. Sometimes with amounts like 12k. How does a 12k gold trade go under the radar? Its pretty wild that this game is literally pay to win and the economy is completely destroyed by bots.

I understand botting is complicated to tackle but this seems like no one is working at blizzard. I’ve reported dozens of bots already. Come back and they are there day after day. Classic is simply just pay/bot to win. It is kind of sad.

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They need to ban gold buyers, full stop.

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Yeah it is crazy. I think I run into a handful of people on retail admitting they bought gold. I ran into a handful in just one GDKP run laughing it off, “Let the chinese children farm it. I got a job”.

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uh…that’s not a thing, sir.

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What? 10char

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Not yet.

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Report them

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Report them for what? Saying they bought gold? Sorry but people lie to impress others, I have no concrete proof. This is something blizzard should be monitoring. Also, I’m not a snitch on people. Bots is one thing, friends of friends, im good on that.

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Then you’ve no right to complain about people buying gold. If you’re going to “take the high ground” and not report your friends for buying gold and contributing to this, then pat yourself on the back and move on.

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I have absolutely the right to complain bud. When someone blows a red light do you make a citizens arrest on them or report them to the police? No you don’t. We can all agree blowing a red light is a bad thing if it becomes a problem we should talk to our police (the people in charge) to enforce this better.

Besides, I have no concrete proof they bought gold. Someone saying they bought gold isn’t proof they bought gold. Lots of people like to flex how much they make IRL.

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I dunno, Officer. I didn’t see nuthin’.

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Agree 100%.

The hacks need to be fixed server-side ASAP.

See here: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/fix-flyteleport-hacking-now

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They don’t need proof to launch an investigation. Technically they don’t need proof to suspended/ban anyone either.

I agree. But they don’t so :man_shrugging:

It’s a video game. Don’t worry. You won’t lose your street cred.

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If your not going to snitch on people why complain at all?

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Thanks for this long saga about your inner thoughts. Thank goodness none of this is actually happening in the game!

Nobody agrees with that. There is no country on earth that has so many policemen that a policeman can be at every red light 24/7. That’s crazy talk.

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If you know a person, say a guildie who buys their gold, do everyone a favor and RAT THEM OUT!

They’re the reason bots and gold sellers exist.

If there’s no one to buy gold, the gold sellers won’t make any money and infact lose out.

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Don’t worry wow token will fix the problem.

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Lol, the trick is to report your friends but never tell them you did. I don’t get it, do you just allow your friends to repeatedly do and get away with morally reprehensible stuff? You aren’t a very good friend, are you?

And yeah, if you know of a gold buyer and don’t report him/her you’re in the wrong and can’t complain about bots.

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If you know the person? You tell them to cut that crap or you’re not getting into the car with them again.

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I’m not starting drama. This is blizzards game. Fix it.

Look at me, I just did it. I didn’t report my friend’s friend and I complained. Tough stuff.