The playerbase is more or less apathetic about reporting bots.
If Blizzard/The WoW team gave players one (1) day of game time for each successful bot ban due to their reports more people would report bots.
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Unpopular opinion but bots are a necessary evil. I prefer not to pay ridiculous prices for profession materials.
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if there weren’t bots (or megaservers) you could just go out and farm stuff yourself 
you know, play the game as intended
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“Cheating is okay as long as it benefits me in some way.”
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Look at that…
Wasn’t even me this time saying it.
How exactly was it cheating?
Did the bot beat someone to the node and used their automation to ensure they won the quarry?
What if no1 was around when the bot mined that vein?
Then, automation or not, it didn’t matter. Tree falling in the woods…
Botting is cheating.
Buying botted gold is cheating.
Buying gold in general is cheating.
I’m not sure why this is such a complex concept.
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Buying goods from bots is considered cheating? I’ll be more careful when on the AH.
P.S. The Cobra Effect would amusing to watch though
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Unfortunately I play on a server that has more than 7 people on it. And mining doesn’t make potions. But it does let me sell ore and enjoy a good ratio on low cost herbs on the AH.
I agree. Blizzard needs to release the token so I can get gold legitimately.
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Buying the goods isn’t considered cheating but the bots themselves are cheating.
Buying the gold they generate by selling you those goods is also cheating.
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Just let us gank bots (of our faction also) we have someone who we think is a bot and label them as such>they must complete a captcha>they fail they get flagged for pvp from both factions>they die they get 2week debuff before they can rez again.
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Forget Bots…
I’m on board with your idea just to go after my Horde enemies alone…
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There’s several low-op servers out there with communities of players who love the game. I bet you could find folks to play with there who would not only love the company, but would also be quite happy to set up mutually beneficial trades with you. No AH required!
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They’re already insane. Imagine how much they’d be if bots vanished lmao.
In 2019, Firemaw EU got to experience just that when their server got locked for an extended period and new bots weren’t being replaced.
and cheating is meta.
Welcome to WoW.
Farming the only thing you are any decent at in game. We know it ain’t raids and that probably carries over to dungeons as well
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the fake emails to placate us would also stop then
I report every single bot I see, my incentive is wanting my game to be a game, not a source of profit for people intent on cheating/breaking the rules.
I also report everyone advertising gold swaps between versions, casinos, and any guild advertising gold selling, and anyone breaking the TOS in chat channels.
Your incentive is whatever you want it to be, but I’ve chosen mine.
Have a great day
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It’s an odd idea, but I actually think there’s some merit to the idea of rewarding players for successfully reporting bots. I’d probably say, there should probably also be a penalty for reporting someone who very obviously isn’t a bot (just so people don’t intentionally abuse the system), and left neutral if a grey area (like a player just not being talkative).
We have more or less the same incentive.
I’m thinking about the apathetic masses that just don’t bother reporting bots becuase they don’t think blizz does anything.
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They’re not terribly expensive on the old Era servers without the bots.
Prices only get crazy when people buy gold.
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