How can this get this bad?
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Because gold sellers will treat bans as a cost of business, and they can boost hundres of bot accounts to 60 in days through their sm/mara/zg bots. Even if Blizz bans a few dozen of them per day, they have more.
The only way this will become less of an issue is putting out perma bans on people who buy gold. Which will inevitably perma some legit players in the crossfire. Normally that could be handled with customer service reps, but they laid all of those off so Bobby Kotick could post a better stock value a few quarters back.
That and bot accounts are 15 bucks/month.
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This is the real problem with bots. You don’t have to buy an account to play classic, so getting your account banned only costs the percentage of the bill cycle they didn’t finish. On average you would guess it costs them 7 bucks to get banned.
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Im sure an active gm could ban a few hundred in a day, they arent even trying to hide it.
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See the above.
Yea I had no idea this teleport hack was a thing, figured it was just some people who were terrible at farming lotus and making stuff up.
Just cancelled the reoccurring payment option on 2 of my accounts, got 2 months left on each.
I enjoy the game, such a shame its gotten this bad.
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Yikes. A good amount of skepticism is good. But a true skeptic doesn’t dismiss things out of hand. They verify what they are told/see.
This is just pure cynicism.
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Ignoring something real does not make it less real.
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If you think Classic botting is bad, just take a tour in retail. There’s boomkin bots 24/7 farming the infinite hyperspawn quest states all over the game, with particular emphasis on Nazmir.
I remember the lawsuit against WoW Glider. Seems like those efforts are gone.
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Retail botting is way less prevalent. Those druids farm raw gold. These botters are getting big ticket items that are crashing the economy.
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Guys please fix this. This is insane. And I have seen this already too.
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You say so many dumb things in these forums. It’s startling.
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but black lotus isnt 20 gold yet like it was back in the day, we need more bots!
Yea but the thing with bot farming in instances is they reset there own instance and are locked to there own timers. It does not affect how much honest people can farm it.
With lotus teleport picking its competing against the honest players only resource choices.
If a small group of players can control that market your gonna see price control eventually, which means inflated lotus prices again.
With instance reset farming there is no set limit on how much can be farmed so the market gets flooded and the prices have to drop.
I am not sure why boosting was not nerfed until now to slow down the bots insane process of leveling up and then why is even flying allowed at Classic?
I am completely disheartened and i am not really looking forward to play that much Classic anymore ( i will probably check out the Shadowlands but if it is infested with bots as much as BFA then i will probably give up ).
World of Warcraft is no longer what we used to know and love.
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No, it’s easier than banning gold buyers.
Introduce WoW Tokens into Classic. They exist in the Asian region, they exist on Retail. Don’t give me that “but…but…but…#nochanges” bunk, plenty of changes already including the DME node change to combat teleport hacking in DME.
It won’t remove all bots/hacks but it will put a solid dimple in the activity.
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That’s what Blizzard does. They’ll take the easiest yet dumbest solution to a problem that really isn’t a solution at all. Like limiting dungeon runs. See how well that fixed the “problem?”
Me either.
GM’s have the tools to see every part of the game in real time. That includes dungeons and raids and black lotus spawns. But they won’t put eyes in the game because OMG PAYING PEOPLE CUTS INTO PROFITS!!
Back in TBC I was exploiting the snake trap bug. A GM popped up in my pm and started scolding me. I argued with him and he said, “We’ve been watching you,” and BAM! Banned for 3 hours.
They can see everything.
The community needs to stop being stupid by saying Blizzard is doing their best, or worse yet, we need tokens.
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Means cheaper lotus for me. You cry babies who can’t play 24/7 now and hoard lotus for your TBC fund can leave.
Teleport hacker detected.
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