In Icecrown tonight there’s 5-6 different bots, and 2 horde in the same guild, sitting close by. Looking up the guild, there’s about 30 of them online atm, and it’s a BR guild. The alliance farmers do not attack the horde, and the horde will not kill the alliance bots, but they WILL KOS any outsider alliance, even chase you down if you try to farm their mobs. I’m literally sitting on the alliance skyship as I type this DEAD, an they’re camping my body… ON THE SHIP. I learned from a real player who was also close by looking to farm that these guys do this every day. They cycle through characters, and they’ll sit there all day like this. Alliance will farm, and horde will sit back close by and attack any outside alliance.
I jumped on a horde character and messaged one of them, to which the response was “Im just doing my job sorry. You can go level in dungeons maybe.” I said “Yeah, gotta sell that g somehow,right,” and he put me on ignore.
Obviously I can’t give names, as witch hunting is against the rules but found this incredibly funny and wanted to share. Elune forbid Blizzard ever did anything about these obvious bots, but $15/month is much more important than server health.
Only thing I doubt from this story is that they had someone reply. But I’ve seen the same Dk bot since launch farming rhinos in Borean tundra, has never been offline anytime I’ve been on. Same spot and he’s skinning and looting meat. The amount of gold this dude has made is insane.
I don’t understand how there is not just some behind the scenes flag for a character then hasn’t logged off in 48 hours. Sure some people no life new expansions and stuff and don’t just straight ban them, but like teleport to the play and just watch them for 5 minutes. You’ll know if it’s a human or a bot in about 2 seconds.
There are bots on my server that online run during the lowest population times, from around 10pm to 10am. They’re offline during the rest of the day usually.
There’s some good analysis on why we lost GMs out in the world. We can blame cost cutting, but it was also the GM events and “personal” service. The expectations became bogus by the playerbase and it wasn’t well managed.
Ex - Trying to help someone with a harassing player with a full queue of tickets, but other GMs are running events and turning people into animals.
Blizzard no longer responds to bot reports at all. You can report as many bots as you want, nothing will happen.
I have always reported bots where I see them, and during TBC I’d get confirmation something was done. That’s no longer the case. I report them all the time, nothing happens.
I remember seeing a post from a DK who said he managed to get himself into a bot discord where based off of what the people running the bots were saying, they don’t care about getting caught. They make more than enough gold to supply more subs. Also their bans are not permanent, half the time it’s a small like 2 week ban.