Not that I would necessarily mind this but it’s not enough. Even with increased GM presence, permas for selling/buying as well as reduced gold cap it’s still going to happen. People will exchange deets in discord for cash app transactions or any number of unsupported trades.
It’s a culture problem. Blizz can knock themselves out to try to police it and sure it will work for some. Do I believe they should at least try instead of phoning it in while waiting for the acquisition to go through? Yes but I’m not holding my breath.
The reason it is complicated is because the bots run below the operating system… and the bot detection they have can do that… but it would be illegal to do so. The answer is hire some gm strictly for bots… but that would cut into profits… so that is probably a no
You will never, ever be rid of exploiters. Bots fall under the category of exploiters, and as long as systems exist people will find ways to exploit them.
Nothing to do with legal. You don’t understand how the bots work. They are literally using “locked” macros, to put it simply. It works by first having an “unlocker” to give them full access to the API command library, then they have a “script” that pretty much plays the character based on the locked API. As soon as a forbidden macro fires, the character should be D/C’d. We’re only “legally” allowed to use a small fraction of the macro commands in the WoW code.
They have made enough money over the years I could assume they would easily pay for resub/another account off a 3rd party site for cheap.
I would think they could ban them weekly for 6 months and they still would be coming back with the money they have made from this bot fest of a game.
= even more money for blizzy
I’m sure not every bot would be using a 3rd party site, but vast majority. But WoW costs a lot more then a sub, so even if a few did it. Would be more money in the end for blizz. Plus the resub.
A lot of these ppl have completely developed and automated response systems. The botter who did the AMA on reddit says he gets a ping on disc immediately when he gets a PM in game, he can swoop into that box and reply like a human almost immediately.
Its actually fairly easy to detect bots in wow without ever contacting the account.
You also dont need a botting justification to bad accounts permanently… Accounts that are fly hacking (there are no joke thousands of them right now) are all easily subject to perma battlenet bans without possibility of protest.
You don’t need “serious tools” you just need to hire a few GMs to ban them on each server. This problem is easy to solve they just don’t want to.Probably they’ve calculated that the salaries for the GMs exceeds the subs for the bots so they let them run. Trashy, but thats how Activision is.
Boting will always be a problem because blizzard do nothing about them and RMT aside forcing random people in the company to create random threads about bots beign banned whitout any backup to the info they release.
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