Did a random queue for BG’s. First one was IOC and there were 10 pally bots. People recognized them and said to report them “again.” Next pop was IOC and there were 5 pally bots. So this has been going on for months and real people aren’t doing BG’s apparently. I know I won’t be.
All it would take is a GM to pop in BG’s. That’s it. So tired of the excuses.
1 minimum wage employee could easily spy in BGs, see the obvious bots, and clear them out every day to the point it wouldn’t be profitable. But Blizzard can’t be bothered. Kotick needs another flying yacht for his collection so wrath will just have to suffer.
AFAIK Blizzard utilizes “ban waves” to get rid of bots which means you can report as much as you want, you ll keep seeing those same bots for a while until the wave actually goes through. From what I understand its the most efficient system because Blizzard flags those accounts and uses the following months to observe them fixing loopholes and adding more accounts that are connected to those bot accounts.
Its frustrating and not much of a help for this issue but thats the world we live in
Kotick is out.
who will you blame now?
microsoft shareholders
anyway they will probably double down on the microtransactions, as they are proven to be far more profitable than selling games or expansions
the celestial steed mount made more money than starcraft 2
I saw that video too. And people wonder why Blizz (or any gaming company) lean into the cash shops and micro-transactions so much. Whales have taken over this industry.
As far as bots…Blizz doesn’t care. A sub is a sub. Whales don’t care. They buy their gold from these bots.
Blizz could literally eradicate the bots in a weekend. You need a handful of GMs in game banning them in real time. The bots are blatant and obvious for all to see. Not token ban waves every 6 months that accomplish nothing.
TRH was its name… 
Just an excuse to not have to pay people.
While it’s true that it is the most efficient in fixing certain bugs that allow scripts to do what they do that really doesn’t help when bots don’t rely on bugs to do their thing anymore.
Waiting to fix a certain bug and hammering the 100k bots that use that bug makes absolutely no difference when the 100k bots are back the next day with a script that doesn’t utilize said bug.
It’s simply corporate speak for “we’re not paying to get rid of money to make our customers happy”.
Play the call of arms on last weekend and didn’t see any bots ( in the ones I was in, anyway). Back in the day, gms would be in game banning them. These devs could careless, tho.
Kottick-sama will never love you.
No, it’s the difference between putting out 100k individual little fires at a time as they’re all spreading, and putting them all out in one go. This isn’t just a gaming industry thing, and there is a method to the madness.
Has never once in WoWs history happened either so that’s a really moot point.
You… do get what I was saying, right? They typically do mass ban waves as opposed to trying to chase the individual mice around and tossing them off the ship one at a time. Somewhat akin to getting a big box and tossing a bunch in before dumping it over the side.
Yes and this has never in the history of WoW worked.
It’s, at best, a temporary setback as they make new bots.
It’s always a setback, but it’s more effective than trying to dump money and time into the individual mice.
Last I checked, the ban waves DO in fact result in bans. So…
You do understand that doing ban waves isn’t exactly free either right? And even your delusions would agree that it also costs time to do ban waves, yes?
But those bans don’t accomplish anything cause of how long and slow the process of handing them out is, so it’ll always be a net gain for a bot to run.
If there was a singular GM on a job rotation handing out bans for bots in BGs they would eventually stop because it simple wouldn’t be profitable to set it up. Same for everywhere else for that matter.
Sure.
Ah, there we are. Gotta throw a personal barb into this somewhere.
It does, but then I guess you don’t know much about this topic.
Sure, sure, totes, yep. Jeez, we all must seem like ants for how our intelligences pale in comparison to yours, because obviously nobody ever had this same idea.
What does it accomplish then?
Remember what you replied to in my post earlier in this thread.
It’s simply a money thing.
There’s STILL flyhacking bots out there, same as there was in 2004 when the game first launched. The idea that they’re “waiting to do ban waves till bugs are fixed” is ludicrous, at the very least you’d have detection for this.
You do realize why that happens, right? There’s no “press this to stop flyhacks” button.
I don’t recall saying that.
And what is money, again?
Time, right? Yep.
Which is why you develop tools to do it such as z-axis detection.
That’s what Blizzard is saying is happening.
Sure. Where has anything else been said?
Look, it’s incredible clear that what they’re currently doing about bots amounts to about the same as me sitting on the loo.
Hiring people to at the very least look into player reports is really not that tough an ask, it’ll simply mean Bobbys 15th yacht will have one less chair on it.