I mean its become blatant who is botting just look up the hunter class and they are all named jahsjske or jsjeeui or ieolwl random charecter letter combo fly hacking in and out of brd and under the open world farming nodes
If you’ve reported them, they will be banwaved eventually.
Generally the bots will return to the same area with variations in these names yes. Think like âhsjske, à hsjske etc so it appears like nothing is being done about them.
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The thing is they have moved to botting inside dungeons and you can not report via /who you have to be able to see them in world and target them
They kinda always did that, in Retail they do it to some popular easy to farm dungeons with druid bots for example. You can take a short clip and send it to Hacks@Blizzard.com for a report instead but generally Blizz knows.
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Just email hacks with a time, location and server. No need for names.
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Those might be names might not be it was an example of how they name charecters not calling out a specific one, blizz rewlly needs to stop doing ban waves these bots are actively destroying the economy and game in sod
An ex-dev that worked at Blizz:
http://youtube.com/shorts/cADaFm__ApQ
You may suggest any methods you may think of through the ingame feedback box but it is not likely that it will be groundbreaking new suggestion.
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If they are banning thousands weekly how are these people hitting 60 in classic and farming, i know SoD leveling is fast compared to vannila but these people are making blatant bots with very obvious names that are jibberish, no ligetimet player is going to make a hunter call grkelpwi with chinese charecters for the pet name
The point that u seem to be missing it does little good to ban a small group its better to ban enmass. Look at it this way
Why arrest a small cell of a criminal gang and tip off the big group or bot makers. Its better ban enmass so the bot makers dont have time to adapt before blizzard can stop them.
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Except blizzard is not stopping then thats the entire issue…waiting weeks or months to ban in a wave is useless the damage is already done to the economy dont worry so much about breaking the script ban them at the start hire people to watch the servers especially places like SoD which will soon be down to 2 servers
Do you have even the slightest inkling how expensive that would be?
How much our subscriptions would increase to make such an endeavor even remotely possible?
Some of us are prepared for that eventuality. Many, many more are not.
Not to mention, they’ve done the whack-a-mole method before. It didn’t work, which is why they do it this way.
As long as players keep looking elsewhere to make it easier to do what they utilize these bots to do, they will never stop. Blizzard can only do so much, but going to the source is the only way to get that fight to truly end.
Stop the players from buying them.
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I’m quite sure the banwave is actually several days to a week and up to a few weeks at most but return anyway, but that latter was already explained.
Which they used to do at the very start of the game, but they would just automatically create bots until somewhere they managed to penetrate the manual bans.
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I believe it was brought up yet, but will restate it just in case:
The folks who does the botting isn’t some guy in their room doing this. It’s a large, faceless group, who has who knows how many accounts doing this. Banning one account won’t make them give up or stop for a while. They’re looking for ways to get in and get out ASAP.
No amount of watching an area, zone, or server will stop this. No amount of man power or money can stop it when there’s a reason for them to do it in the first place. Like leaving food out where an animal can sniff it out and get to it, putting down more traps won’t make that food disappear that they’re attached to.
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“Hire people to watch the servers” - just what do you think the hacks team does? They aren’t going to instantly ban bots the moment they’re found because that would let the botters figure out how they were caught. Ban waves were done for a reason.
Also you seem to think that Azeroth is a real place and they have to have a GM “in the location of the bots” to “see them”. That’s not how any of this works.
The people behind the bots are multi billion dollar criminal enterprises, and most of them have at least hundreds of thousands of stolen accounts and stolen credit cards to activate them with. They do not pay for accounts or game time whatsoever. They also do money laundering, terrorist financing, and credit card fraud. They like WOW because it gives them an opportunity to launder their ill gotten gains to make it harder for governments to catch them. These are real life crime rings, and the stuff they do in the game is the least bad thing they do.
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I know gms can spawn in game and be invisible, there is videos of bots making characters and running into a tree and clipping underground could literally just watch them and ban hammer before they get started
And the bot makers will go - oh look, we’ve been detected, lets make changes to avoid further detection.
Banning here and there doesn’t work.
This is an issue many games have faced, and will continue to be an issue while players give the bot makers, gold sellers etc a market - by insisting on cheating.
So how many GM’s will it take to watch every single area in all the maps, on all the realms, over a 24/7 cycle (considering 3 shifts of 8 hours, to cover each 24 hour period)?
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Except they do not do that, frontline GM staff answer tickets only, across all Blizzard properties.
The hacks team pulls data from logs, and verifies said data before issuing bans.
We get you like a clean game, and appreciate it. Just understand, this is not really how the ban hammer goes down.
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That is literally not how GM’s work, lol. Azeroth is not a physical place, and noone needs to “watch” bots. There is zero need for any GM’s to have a “presence” in the game world. The game world doesn’t exist. It’s a database.
WOW probably has more bots banned every month than every other MMO combined. Of course, most of the bot accounts are stolen player accounts (usually from long inactive players).
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Blizzard does all it can to ban and break the tools they use for botting. These organizations that bot are multi-billion dollar enterprises that use mostly hacked, stolen, or sold accounts so they don’t care if they lose them. One banned, another activated.
But, as long as there are impatient, greedy players in the game that don’t want to play the game the way it’s intended to be played, and rush out and buy gold, there will always be bots. It’s the basic Marketing 101 example of Supply and Demand. As long as there is a demand, there will be a supply. So, blame your fellow players that are purchasing from these people instead of Blizzard.
All you can do is report them and move on.
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Your way would catch totally innocent players like yourself. Now we wouldn’t want that would we.