Herbalism bots plaguing BFA

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And costs more money in chargeback fees from stolen credit cards. :roll_eyes:

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Except they don’t. The financial impact of compromised accounts is significant enough that it’s in Blizzard’s best interest to stop them. Charge-backs, the cost to pay GMs to restore accounts (which includes salaries and benefits), and the significant amount of time it takes to secure the code so people can’t hack it. Not cheap.

Players buying tokens doesn’t miraculously overcome that impact. Perhaps do some reading on the impact of identity theft before making an illogical comment.

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False information. In order to herb in BfA zones they need an active account. They use stolen credit-card numbers to activate those accounts. When the credit-card holder disputes the charge, Blizzard must pay it back plus a handling fee. All that is outside of the man-hours it takes to investigate and address reports about them.

If you find that pots are expensive, make an alchemist and make them yourself. It doesn’t require buying a WoW token.

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I’m sorry, but the suggestion that bots help Blizzard make money or can be viewed by the company as even remotely positive is laughably ridiculous. Such an idea illustrates a fundamental lack of understanding of who these people are.

First and foremost, the majority of botting/farming accounts are exploitative. They are usually compromised accounts (meaning they’ve been stolen from normal players, often who are currently inactive so aren’t aware of the theft), or they are created with stolen credit cards.

In both cases, dealing with fraudulent charges costs the company money. That isn’t counting the negative impact is has on normal players, who may get frustrated and quit playing because they don’t want to deal with bots, gold sale advertisers, etc.

No, we certainly don’t make money from them and the amount of resources dedicated towards efforts to deal with them is substantial.

Given the entirely unnecessary resurrection from 4 months ago, I think this one should be closed. Thanks all.

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