How does Blizz deal with bots?

[Zipster-jaedenar]

Actions Taken to Address Exploitative Gameplay

We’ve recently completed a round of actions against players who were found to be cheating in World of Warcraft. We rarely communicate publicly about this, because we’ve found that describing our sources and methods can make it easier for malicious actors to work around them, but we feel that it’s worthwhile to expand on the subject today, as many players have recently asked us for more details. Including today’s actions, over the last month in the Americas, Oceania, and Europe regions, we’ve c…

This thread goes into some detail about what they do.

Edit: Be aware that posting videos like that on the forum is against the forum ToS for callouts and/or self promotion, it could possibly result in action against you. Just a friendly heads up.

[Dráigo-emerald-dream-1045515]

I went back to try and better illustrate why I suspect some of these players as bots.

After finding one the players who was in question in regards to your reply, this was a player I was referring to.

DruidBot

I suspect I was able to throw the bot off its script, demonstrating how this bot currently thinks its in the instance right now, running its normal path.

Since my first report back in June, this bot has most likely already generated well over 1mill gold for its developer.

[Rahkeetahp-aerie-peak]

@Dráigo-emerald-dream-1045515

Always in the same spot, never reply to whispers,

that doesnt mean a thing.
I dont even see whispers most of the time till some time later. And even then I dont respond to them much. MY game is MY time…
As for being in the same place…so what?
I use the loot a rang to loot with…so Im basically standing in one spot for a long while sunfiring mobs down and ranging the loot.
The reason you arent getting anything done is because its probably players who are obeying the ToS.
yeah…you may not like it, but the rules are the rules.

Report and move along. Thats really your only option here.

[Rahkeetahp-aerie-peak]

All that work for nothing, apparently…as I said…

@Rahkeetahp-aerie-peak

Report and move along. Thats really your only option here.

I aint the one you need to impress.

[Rahkeetahp-aerie-peak]

@Ayrias-nazjatar

But some multi-boxers are botting as well so multi-botting is a thing.

I dont think anyone argues that that doesnt happen but MOST of the time in here the ‘multibot’ crap is the inflammatory accusation against ALL boxers.
So we just come to expect that that is the intent when the term is used.

[Rahkeetahp-aerie-peak]

@Impervious-destromath

Blizz wants their sub money, so they ‘study’ the bots for 2 years or so, and when blizz needs a quarterly report boost, they ‘ban’ all of the bots, knowing full well that they will purchase new accounts and subs.

Rinse and repeat. That is how Blizz deals with them.

If they want in bad enough, the get in.
Thats why even government websites with top notch security get hacked.
There is no stopping it. Just trying to keep it controlled to whatever degree.

[Angenie-aerie-peak (Angenie)]

@Liliania-dawnbringer

@Angenie-aerie-peak

multi-botters

Multiboxing isn’t botting.

You are correct, it is not, and I never said that they are one in the same. However, what players have see lately (I’ve seen it personally MANY times in the game) are people who are multi boxing AND using a BOT to drive their 5-10 character at the same time. That is what the OP was talking about when he said

@Dráigo-emerald-dream-1045515

I’m curious because for the past several weeks I’ve seen the same druids outside instances I farm for raw gold. Always in the same spot, never reply to whispers, immediately go invis when I whisper, and always on.

I believe he is describing multiple BOT’s - multi-botter. What name would YOU give this kind of activity?