Blizzard, I am confused.
Players are being banned left right and centre for allegedly receiving gold. Many justified bans of course. But I have also heard of just as many false-positives.
Can all these stories of innocence be true? Not a chance. But some of them may be, which does skew these ban waves in the more heavy-handed direction.
Now what I find really confusing in contrast, is the seeming indifference to the rampant botting situation. Just these last few days I have reported many obvious bots via your cheating complaint system. Yet, crickets…
I know there are players out there who have done much more to report bots than I have, yet it wasn’t until I personally started doing the same that i realised how utterly inadequate your response is.
The same bots I reported days ago are still running around doing their thing, in the exact same spots in the exact same gear.
You have on the one hand gone so far out of your way to ban gold buyers that you have even started banning innocent players (if their stories are to be believed), yet seem so utterly incapable of hitting the actual source of the problem with anything other than a 2 dps fish.
It would be amazing if you could shed some light on this issue in the same spirit as you have been seeking feedback from the community about your issues with balancing the game.
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They SAY this, but does this really sound like the actions of a company that wants to uphold the integrity of its game? Letting bots run around for an entire month before doing something about it doesn’t seem very proactive to me.
That sounds a lot less like keeping the bad guys off centre and a lot more like keeping costs to a minimum and subscriptions up. No company in their right mind would allow the integrity of their product to be compromised if they weren’t somehow benefiting from it.
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I guess I’m just crazy for not taking a public company’s words at face value? Surely a company would never lie to us. Companies have never lied to the public before.
Also:
Which one is it?
No, you aren’t but you don’t have proof of the contrary so it’s kind of a pointless argument that will go nowhere isn’t it.
The evidence is bots running rampant. I don’t know what other evidence you require.
This dude wants Blizzard to comment just so he can say “I don’t believe you.”
Is that like 15% of total active players?
You’re right. We should never ask anyone to further explain themselves.
They’ve posted tons of threads and explanations about the issue but you’ve made it clear you don’t believe them.
What you want is for Blizzard to tell you what you WANT to hear. Which is: “We lied and we let the bots run rampant for the sub money, just like you imagined in your head.”
In what way is allowing bots complete freedom in between ban waves NOT letting run rampant?
You realise that most bots are paid for with stolen credit cards which get charged back, and are most often paid in regions where the amount to subscribe is peanuts by comparison (no where close to $15). Stolen credit card chargebacks COST blizzard money.
The bot industry is a plague on the game, and on all MMO’s. Point me to an MMO which has no bot problems and an actual economy? I’ll wait.
Why do you need Blizzard to post again? You already have all the answers. You can delete your pointless thread now.
I actually don’t want them to say the same thing again. I want them to say they are adding extra measures to fix the problem. Sorry if that wasn’t clear
I dunno man, I get heaps of feedback on the bots that I’ve been reporting.
I think the issue is probably more how quickly they can generate new burner accounts.
That’s a hard problem to solve without the Korean approach of requiring you to provide a social security number to create an account for games.
Are you a real person? You can’t be.
Botting has never been “fixed” in any game that has it. You can delete your utterly pointless thread and go educate yourself on the issue. Bye.
Bye! Thanks for your input.
It’s because that’s free-printed $4mil a month to just ban them after the gold seller makes profit and they know this. If they insta ban gold seller like they do to real-players then the gold sellers would quit and do something else. It’s very clear $ > quality. and i don’t blame them. if any of us were raking in billions we’d all do the same and you cant convince me otherwise. Though its a bad business practice, it’s profitable and nobody is harmed in the process. Cheaters will cheat regardless of the consequences. If they really wanted to solve this then they would start permabanning gold buyers off rip starting p3 (shoulda been announced pre-SoD launch imo) zero toleration policies actually work.
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This is an utterly clueless take.
