Classic WOW has a massive bot situation

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Players leveling up, even with their tag, chinese pet names and grinding like nothing is happening around them.

If they are on opposite faction, you can even kill them, they will do nothing. Just ress and continue their grind, ignoring you.

What is happening? I recall this back from vanilla but I thought that with the current game client engine (Bnet compatible) and updated anti-cheat engine, this wouldn’t happen.

I have seen this on my realm (Sul’thraze), which is a low pop realm, and seems that such people are doing this to try to bot resources around the world and make the game harder for us. I have read around reddit that it’s happening also on other and most high-populated servers such as Faerlina and Herod.

I wanted to bring this to attention in the forums. I don’t expect that Blizzard would issue 1:1 bans on such bots and in the past it was always understanding patterns and once they are tracked, they get ban, but this has been going over 2 months already - it is taking too long and I’m afraid that either it will be too late, or perhaps the monthly subscription is more important than customer satisfaction after alll.

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Best way to deal with bots same way as retail right click and report and let blizzard deal with them.

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As Darthwraith mentioned, the way to report them is via right-click-report. Be sure to tag them as cheating if you suspect someone of being a bot.

Something to understand though, a lot of these accounts are compromised accounts. These actually end up costing Blizz money, not making them money. Their “subscriptions” are often tied to fake or stolen credit cards which then costs Blizz even more to deal with.

Unfortunately, botting will always happen in an online and competitive environment. Every time a company like Blizzard finds a way to squash a bot, someone makes a newer and better one to avoid detection.

Best thing we can do is report every one we see to help keep their numbers to a minimum!

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