It’s truly a wonder. Blizzard is not banning any bots in Classic - the same bots I saw weeks ago I see today. The same bots I saw even before that, I see today. They never log out and they continuously farm gold. So why does Blizzard continue to not even address player concerns about bots?
Is it greed? Possibly, and the most likely reason. After all, bots pay a subscription and they figure for every one bot they don’t ban, they only lose maybe 0.2 of a player. So for every 5 bots ($75/month) they only lose one player ($15/month), which results in a net $60 positive. But where does that money come from? Surely it can’t be from just a credit card. It has to be stolen - in which Blizzard would be complicit in identity theft - or it could be with less traceable time cards, or through retail gold buying a token. In the latter’s case, banning the entire account would also mean that the bot wouldn’t be able to pay for a new month with retail gold.
Is it apathy? Also a possibility, and likely the second actual reason. Blizzard never really cared about Classic and just said words that made us feel good, feel hopeful. They promised an as authentic experience as possible, but never actually planned to provide it to us. Ignoring the shoddy systems, pretty mediocre job (at first) of porting actual 1.12 data, and a lot of slow action on pretty highly important subjects, Blizzard just doesn’t respond to player concerns… at all. They’ve been pretty terrible for communicating for years, but Classic was absolutely a new low. I’ve never seen a company so fine with not providing a good experience.
Lastly I fully think Blizzard is breaching the contract we all sign when we agree to the ToU. They ask us not to cheat, so we don’t - but they don’t ban the people who are cheating, so long as it turns a profit for them. How is that not a breach of contract?
When is Blizzard going to finally act? Are they going to wait until their next financial report is ready, and then do a ban wave? Do they care more about pleasing their shareholders (of course they do) and their own bonuses than they do their players? I truly feel for anyone who is left at Blizzard who still cares about us because it’s almost certain they’re restrained from helping by the same people who are causing these problems in the first place. That’s probably why so many big names have left, and why so many of the up and comers also left for better places.
What a pity.
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“Ban wave will be announced…”
Along with mtx, unless they made an executive decision to ban 1 bot and call that a wave
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So I dont think you understand fully how it works and why you see so many and while sadly no matter what blizz do and how many they ban its a band aid fix at best and here is why.
I back threw vanilla threw to cata sold gold and made roughly 600-800 a week back then doing so. Sure some accounts got banned but that was 50 bucks to set up a new one and away I went again. The issue is bots and gold sellers yes and ban them by all means but they will just coming back because little timmy and his friends are willing to throw money at gold and make it profitable to do so. So while yes blizz can do more it also falls down to the player base aswell for supporting those who sell gold because if the money wasnt around for them to do it then they wouldnt
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Ban waves do not work. They are entirely ineffective. Especially with classic. If on average you take even 3 weeks to ban a bot, they have run that bot (and probably 10+ others at the same time) long enough that they have made enough profit to make it worth just doing it again.
I remember reading up on bots years ago in the HB days. They were advanced enough then to have questing routes. Imagine in classic if you had bots speed leveling through joanas leveling route or one of the many alliance routes to farm 24/7? There’s also bots now that the mage aoe abilities and pathing for dungeons built in. 3 weeks of leveling and then farming 24/7 on just one account makes it potentially worth doing 10 times over.
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Why even necro such a old thread
You are wrong. The robot to reach LV60 don’t need 3 weeks. Only need a few days time. And not only can copy MAGE AOE ability. Can also fly to heaven
They can also completely ignored the terrain through the ground
Report report report! I got an official ingame mail from Blizzard(you can tell its official because it’ll have the bliz icon) that a report of mine led to action. They’ll never go into actual details. But I only report bots. So they do check if they’re reported.
A lot of them you can’t find at all. How do you report?There are a lot of robots in the field now using subterranean robots. You see a mineral that disappears when you run over it. You don’t see anyone gathering it because it’s underground. How do you report it?
The blue post said they banned 70,000 accounts in 1 month. I believe them. So I don’t believe you.
So what? Nobody said that Blizzard banned EVERY bot. And if an account is banned, what stops someone from making a new character (bot) with the same name?
Some players have unreasonable (impossible) expectations. They actually believe (don’t laugh! it’s true) that Blizzard can stop ALL bots COMPLETELY.
Naturally, Blizzard can’t do that. Neither can Las Vegas Casinos with 100 times as much money as Blizzard. Neither can anyone else.
" After all, bots pay a subscription "
This is false, I have seen otherwise since Diablo 2. If they could exploit around the CD-Key necessity for access to that game’s channels, there would be no issue getting onto NA servers via token vulnerabilities and VPNs. Setting up subs repeatedly goes directly in the face of this process, and would hinder their efforts, which are continuing unabated given how quickly the bots return.
