There is actually an option blizzard has that would fully completely eliminate bots . which is similar to what riot games did with vanguard which allows riot games to have kernel level detection to stop cheating in League of Legends
Blizz could do that for world of Warcraft if they wanted to… but blizz has probably made a money calculation and determine that if they did implement kernel level anti cheat system required for world of Warcraft it would cause more people to quit the game than would be worth it to stop the bots . Also every bot would stop paying a subscription because instantly getting banned would make it create no money
Anyway I get it. blizzard is a company that’s based on making money so of course they here to make as much money as possible . and if they actually did implement kernel level detection within world of Warcraft they would have to make it public and then people would quit over it because they don’t want to give blizzard that level of power over their computer
Yeah, Blizzard is making bank off all those $3 p/m subscriptions using stolen credit cards.
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It’s incompetence. The game is spaghetti code, and the current devs don’t fully understand it because none of the original developers are there anymore. Remember when they admitted that changing the default backpack bricks a bunch of seemingly unrelated stuff in the game? Incompetent dev team trying to maintain spaghetti code.
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Please stop spewing Blizz propoganda as gospel.
Bots are more than financially viable paying a sub, because ban waves are too infrequent to actually be a deterrent or even a realistic mitigating factor.
Rather think of the banwaves more like a “tax” or “license to bot”… Whenever they need to shore up revenue numbers for a specific quarter, BAM banwave… All the bots get new copies of the game/new subs, and the process repeats.
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They typically already have the accounts to avoid the 30day restriction on the accounts.
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Why does it have to be a tech solution?
Blizzard is just too cheap to properly staff GM’s.
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Tech doesn’t have minimum wage, paid time off, health insurance premiums, social security tax witholding, etc.
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It’s not propaganda.
Criminals don’t “invest” their own money when they can get somebody else to pay for it (the ones perpetrating at scale, not the solo farmers trying to eke out a living). And it’s incredibly easy to alter your region using a VPN to access cheap WoW subs.
The reason farmers exist is because selling gold is financially lucrative for many in the Global South. You can make more USD in a few hours than you would working a 12-hour day in a gruelling sweatshop, and recoup any startup costs just as easily if you are banned. It’s the same economic reality that drives people from neighbouring countries to ransack abandoned gold mines in South Africa - only, the risks are so much lower in WoW.
You might recall articles a few years ago where WoW gold was literally more valuable than the Venezuelan bolivar.
tl;dr, Blizzard doesn’t make good money off bots, but bots make good money off Blizzard.
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Kernel level anticheat is both expensive to implement (not something that a massively receded in popularity, mature game like WoW would be worth spending on), and extremely invasive and unpopular with a lot of people.
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i would flat out quit if they asked for kernal level anti cheat. that stuff is silly.
I have a Associate’s Degree in Liberal Arts.
Blizz knows and doesn’t care about the bots. Not as long as people keep paying.