After the DK changes a while back, now there are lvl 10 fishing bots everywhere. How are lvl 10 fishing bots not instantly banned. They are so confident about not being banned that they don’t even try to hide what they are doing. There are dozens of them on Whitemane. i
“HoW dO yOU KnOW tHeY’Re BoTS hUh HoW dO YOu kNoW HuH”
It is truly a wonder that the EULA allows Blizzard to terminate an account at any time for any reason whatsoever, BUT that can never be enforced against obvious bots
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Where there is a will, there is a way. They need to put GMs back in the game. Instead of making the game worse (by the changes they are making) for the rest of the customer base.
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“But our automated system detects bots just fine! We don’t need to pay more people!” -Bobby probably.
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Ive been questing in shollozar and this rogue is a herbalist - the amount of bots flying in very obvious movement/patterns and who will sit stuck on a node that you looted first and hold the loot box open is WILD lmao - i reported 40-50 different bots on faerlina yesterday in the less than 2hrs i played out there
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They only abuse that clause against people that hurt their feelings.
Fantastic idea. I need to start flying to the zone and just go AFK on an adder tongue. I bet I’ll come back to like 15 stuck bots trying to loot the plant. Once again I must point out that if it is THIS easy for players to detect bots, it can’t be that difficult for Blizzard.
Blizzard has detection tools and logs we do not have access to. This makes it easier for Blizzard, not harder. They just have to give a crap first.
but bots are $$$$$$$ and that is the name of their game.
They don’t actually care about the game anymore, its very obvious with all the flagrant exploits, bugs and cheating / botting that goes on and then they make posts saying we banned 100thousand bots but forgetting to mention that is globally and includes retail… that i will add has like 200x more bots than both versions of Classic.combined.
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Just report them. If they are bots they will be actioned. I reported someone that was obviously botting 2 days ago and this morning got a message from Blizzard thanking me and saying that action was taken against that account etc.
The tool is there, use it.
Wishful thinking but the report tool is hardly effective. It’s definitely a good idea to keep using it but you don’t need to belittle people for feeling frustrated that they’ve been reporting bots for months and keep seeing the same names zipping around in straight lines and getting stuck on nodes.
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Wait. So I’m suppose to pay them money AND volunteer my time policing their game?
Peak capitalism right there.
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Or you could pay them more so that they could police the game. Peak socialism right there.
Reporting them is not policing them or wasting your time. In fact there are even addons like badboy that auto report bot spam. Yes it reports false positives but that’s blizzards problem to sort by. While whiles a simple right click to report bots addons won’t. If that is wasting your time you lack the fundamental motor skills to play this game.
Just like a report to the police in the real world is not you policing (thou it dose take time as much harder to report in real life), It’s making a report so somethign can get done. It’s impossible for them to cover everything with the resources given. As such you want it better do your part and report. You picking not to is not going to make blizzard spend anything more on actioning them it’s just going to make it harder and as such less bans.
You can’t complain if you pick to not report.
Also you don’t pay them money to action bots you pay them money to access the severs. Yes they use some of that to action players in order to make others want to access the servers but they’re not required to. Just like you’re not required to report but picking not to only hurts yourself.
Nah, Socialism, in this case, would be to make the players GMs.
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I am policing the game via reporting. It’s like the ‘Neighborhood Watch’. But for video games. “Policing” doesn’t mean you need to have a badge or even authority…well, at least not anymore.
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That’s incorrect. It’s obvious to us because we’re actually sharing the world with the bots and seeing them with our own two eyes. It’s easy for players to notice and tabulate instances of bots when there are hundreds of thousands of us in the game world.
The only way for Blizzard to have the same kind of awareness of bots as we have would be for them to also have humans traveling around in the game world, which is a completely unrealistic approach. You could have 10 times as many GMs (maybe even 100) and they still wouldn’t have enough manpower to watch every affected zone on every realm at all times. When the game is this big, the only realistic ways to stop botting are:
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To give players enhanced power to help remove them
- Unlikely that they'd ever put significantly more power into the players' hands, because that can be a recipe for disaster. Though they've recently gutted our ability to report bots by removing the ability to report people for botting unless you're physically near them, which was an awful move..
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To use a technology solution to detect botting automatically, or stop it before it even happens.
- This is the only solution that couldn't be abused by humans, but also wouldn't cost astronomical amounts of money. The only problem is that it requires Blizzard's team to research and outsmart the botters. There's currently a position open on the WoW team for this exact job, which might explain why they're struggling so much to stop botting.
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