If you all are serious about handling botters, check out the coordinates 43, 30 (the bear spawn area) in Nesingwary Korthia. There is always a cloud of horde (now a mix of horde and alliance) toons there 24/7 mass farming the bears in the exact same spot. They have been reported multiple times over the past few weeks. A response has been received once that actions were taken against one or more accounts (totally understand why specifics werent given), but if you monitor that area, you’ll find them.
They, after seeing me hovering to try to individually report them, said they were going to report me… What for, I dont know, but whatever. I figured I’d mention it since the reporting/banning features have a reputation of being notoriously automated. Good luck with solving the botting issue, cant imagine what thats like.
If you suspect fowl play, then report. Blizzard does the legwork. If they are indeed playing out of bounds, then their accounts will be given appropriate penalties.
So you’re just going to hit multiple post with no real reason save for spreading salt. Is there something you needed? Or are you just trying to see how many threads you can get locked?
They take reports. Just not here since, hey. There aren’t any GMs here on this forum. Only in-game or through the hacks email when applicable.
I have done THOUSANDS of reports, literally, not hyperbole. BOth of obvious druid riding a druid gather bots running identical pathing one after another, and also for WTS 2s / 3s in arena LFG. Neither of these things have even slightly reduced in frequency so forgive me if I don’t believe they do anything meaningful to combat bots or spam.
Thing to keep in mind, is that Blizzard will never ban bots here and there. It will always be a wide spread ban wave to give the botters and bot makers as little warning as possible that they’ve been detected. This happens after extensive investigations, and working out how to break the bots without breaking the game.
The other issue is that the botters/scammers are ruthless and have 1000’s of compromised accounts at their disposal. Ban one, they move to the next, and so on. It honestly is a never-ending battle.
Someone in a previous thread gave a great explanation for why Blizzard doesn’t use the whack-a-mole method to remove bots. Your reports on one realm would count as whack-a-mole.
You reporting the same “obvious” bots over and over again will not make your reports have a higher priority. It requires reports from multiple players.
Advertising in LFG is done by organizations that have many, many accounts to do it from. All they do is switch accounts. Reporting them will slow them down but nothing anyone can do will stop them.
Thank you for wanting to help make WoW a better game. Reporting is always the best choice, even if it seems like nothing is being done. I’ve seen enough threads in Customer Support made by someone who was silenced or suspended because of reports like yours to know it does happen.
