Just look up this will be my last video. Dude destroys bots and well you know damn well what type of threats he got.
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is there any context that would help me understand this thread?
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Bots have been consistently farming since BFA, Blizzard should just admit they’re part of the game now. I’ve made a few videos of Bots during DragonFlight and the player base began to flame me.
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*vanilla
Slight correction, sorry.
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I haven’t looked into it much, but my understanding is a Youtuber was killing gold selling/bots on Classic Hardcore.
He received death threats supposedly from the people involved in those operations.
He has decided to stop making the videos.
the other day i reported 2 bots farming in DL, they thanked me for the report and said action was taken, and i get to the same spot on a new toon today, more bots. doesnt seem to make any difference if you report them, they just come back
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that’s pretty shocking. he must have determined the threats were credible. it makes me wonder who’s involved in this!
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He talks about it in his video, he was sent screen shots of different discord servers tied to these botting “groups” that had all of his, as well as his families personal information such as their home address. The screen shots also included them talking about what they are going to do to him and his family if he does not stop.
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So did he report this to his local police?
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Some streamer was killing bots and talking about how bad they are and got nasty comments thrown at him for it in his stream or something.
Old news from like a week or two ago and I don’t think it was in game harassment, so I don’t know what OP expects Blizzard to do about that.
Crazy people being crazy towards a streamer cause bots. Whole thing was whacked out and dumb. If the dude wants to kill bots, then let him kill bots. LOL
From what someone else said, they weren’t real life death threats. Just nasty harassment comments. Like going after his game character, etc.
Edit: my info looks outdated and incorrect,making those gold sellers look even more insane.
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Oh so he got doxxed by crazies? Yeah, then my info was wrong and those people are even crazier than I thought.
But if it’s not on Blizzard’s platform, then Blizzard can’t do anything. Hopefully he got Discord and YouTube to ban those people and law enforcement involvement if necessary.
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Blizzard can take meaningful action to combat botting, but they need to step up. Start actively policing bot activity and enforcing immediate consequences. Don’t just ban the accounts, go further, block IP addresses and hardware signatures. Make botting so costly and inconvenient that it’s no longer worth the effort.
Blizzard is allowing this problem to fester, just like they always have, and their complacency is only making things worse and worse.
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Well now the people sending threats are gonna get an ego boost. Super.
He was a former customer. they just looked him up.
Presumably, this is about the hardcore player who was going around killing (whoever he believed was) bots, and got harassment from them. What I’ve seen is that those threats were coming through Discord, though there may have been ones happening in game.
They do take action. Just not piecemeal. I have no input otherwise, because I don’t work for Blizz to know how this all works and best methods.
I wasn’t talking about the botting, though. I was talking about the harassers on Discord and YouTube.
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That’s not an effective tool, because it allows bot makers to identify changed quickly and adjust to them. There’s a reason that basically every company uses ban waves.
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Nah, I won’t
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It’s because botters are paying customers and they know that if they make sure it stays profitable for them that they’ll get new hardware and accounts and go right back to doing it.
So these companies turn a profit by doing it in waves. Doing it proactively would cost resources. This way they can show token efforts without spending money and in fact making it.
./tinfoil off