Greetings Blizzard, I’ve been observing the bots as of late, been doing my due diligence in reporting them. You know these cheaters that are playing and people that use botting software are not being banned. Aha! You will respond with the normal corporate talk that OBVIOUSLY this is not allowed. However, I have verifiable proof that cheating IS allowed to a certain extent. You are allowed to cheat and bot until your account is reported enough! Amazing! Great! So, being that none of these rules are actually enforced. I.E No Game Masters are ever present? Another conundrum for you guys, how about just try and que as a player in your game? Give it a shot, it’s not so hard or so bad. It cannot be that hard right? Give it a try guys, play your game and ban these cheaters. Thank you.
Botting isn’t allowed, the ban the bots every 3 months, might not be as often as you like but they do get banned.
I wish Blizzard added the GM’s back, would be great.
3 months = $60 for the boost to 80 and $45 for the subscription. That’s a cost of $105. Lets assume your average server can run 10 of these programs simultaneously. Thats 1/10th of the cost of the hardware, lets make the math easy and assume that a $2400 computer can do this for 2 years. 1/10th of 2400 = 240 / 24 = $10 a month for the cost of the hardware. Lets round this up because im likely missing other costs and say that a bot will have a cost of $150 over its lifespan of 90 days.
150/90 = about $1.67 per day. So how much gold do we need per day. Given the market price of bot gold being 10,000 G = $8.00, we just need to solve for X on this formula X/1.67 = 10,000/8 , X = $2,088. Lets give it a nice round number. $2,100.
So your bot needs to net you less than 100G an hour in order to be solvent. Everything above that is gravy.
I should probably add to this that if you have say, 1,000 of these running. That would require 100 servers, so an investment of $240,000 (I am wayyy overestimating the hardware cost here). If each bot nets you a profit of $1.00 per day, or 150g per hour instead of the 100g minimum you need to be solvent, Then over the course of a year, your bots will provide you with over $300,000 in profit.
Bots are not ‘cheaters’ these are businesses with profit margins. Blizzard allows them to thrive under this model for several reasons.
1 - They can claim they are combating the botting problem every 3 months.
2 - Bots = subs + micros. Spending resources to combat botting beyond their current methods are bad for business.
3 - Justification for the Wow tokens existence, which is blizzards way of participating in gold selling, but at a 2x to 3x inflated price for the privilege of buying your gold within the ToS.
Under the current system, it is 100% clear that Blizzard supports botting.
just get ready for that random friend online that he will disappear and complain on discord about blizzards mistake 
Blizzard can’t be assed to plop a few GMs in BGs.
Officially, botting is strictly prohibited and people doing it are banned.
Unofficially, in reality, botting is rampant, has been for all of wrath. For every 1 bot they ban, there’s probably 10 new ones cranked out ready to replace it. Blizzard decided it was a good idea to put in a level 80 boost, meaning botters, seconds after being created, can go straight to farming. Meanwhile Blizzard and sycophants want to claim Blizzard doesn’t make money from botters. Well botters are the primary consumer for boosts. Botters probably buy 100x as many boosts as normal players.
the top arena players were scripting since phase 1 & bragging about it, a few got banned so they would boost and do it again…
Credit to BRAD youtube, in season of discovery. Blizzard is so pathetic at policing any of this, unbelievable.
Looks like your typical AV. But Blizzard can’t put GMs in game because they have to “investigate” and “study” them for three months.
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