Why would lazy retail players play Classic? 
Iâve never seen run selling this rampant on any private server, run selling like this came from retail and everyone knows it.
Private server players already know how to speed quest and mob grind through this game without paid boosting.
Yeah⊠because they nerfed group dungeon exp on most private servers. They did this because, guess what, it would have been just as rampant on private servers as it is on Classic if they didnât.
All those dozens of private server guilds that power leveled through Scarlet Monastery and ZF within four days of Classicâs release were just figments of our imaginations.
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No. Youâre knowledge of the internet is showing that its 15 years out of date. VPN is quite common in standard internet security now for people on wifi.
Private server players donât pay for run selling, racing to 60 on newly released servers was something they were used to, and the private server community was small enough for me to know that, do you guys seriously just make stuff up?
Iâm not even against a person helping a friend level in dungeons or whatever because that was always in Vanilla too but wtf does that have to do with RUN SELLING? Of course private server players figured out how to maximize dungeon XP they had years and years to do it but what does that have anything to do with rampant RUN SELLING imported from retail?
LOL, I run a large IT company.
Every META we have here was developed and widely practiced on private servers. You canât blame retail for this, sorry but you just canât.
Thatâs interesting.
From a technical point of view, how would you propose to
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Doubtful on the mistake bans.
Did you actually seriously play on any of the 1x private servers? They were more authentic and vanilla like than classic WoW even is.
If you put all the actual private server players in a single server it wouldnât even equal the population of Sulfuras of Faerlina. Speed runners from pservers might have brought things like world buff stacking here but they sure as hell arenât responsible for paid run selling.
If it makes you feel better to blame retail players, go ahead. Itâs not written in law that you need to believe the truth.
indonesia, venezuela, etc. ppl saying to just ban china are ignorant
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Itâs not just the âChinese playersâ whoâre causing issues. You could also look for:
- Level 60 mages in ZF
- Anyone level 15-25 standing outside Stockade
- Level 60 mage standing idly outside stockade
- Anyone in LFG or Trade selling or requesting boosts
This is quite literally impossible to do. The best you could hope for is to maintain a list of the most popular VPN IP addresses, but even those change. Heck, I forget to turn off my VPN when logging into Netflix fairly often and even they donât detect it a lot of the time.
Edit: I will also add that your entire concept throws out the baby with the proverbial bathwater. You punish real players who travel for their jobs, you punish students, people on vacation. âEasyâ solutions like yours are always bad for the game.
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We should not allow anyone to log in who types their password at less than 50 GWPM. I think this would be equally as effective as a VPN ban.
No. The easiest way to stop botters and cheats is to actually hire GMâs to answer tickets and monitor the reports instead of trying to automate everything and trying to stick a bandaid over severed limbs.
Anyone who thinks itâs just as easy as âbanning VPNâsâ obviously has no idea what the entire point of VPNâs really is. Seriously, just hire some real people Blizzard, and tell Bobby Kotick and to shove off, dude has no credibility since we know whose Island he was known to frequent.
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On most Pservers, to handle the higher amount of players on a single server, had dynamic respawns. It made leveling a mage alot easier than normal AOE farming, since the XP per hour is much higher while sitting in the same farm spot.