Now if blizzard was actually effective at dealing with bots I’d totally agree that what they’re doing is the right way to go. But what it really seems like is that it’s cheaper to make a forum post than to just hire a few GM’s to actively monitor bots. Something which would also be far more detrimental to bots as they wouldn’t be able to just roll the operating costs of getting banned into the price of gold if they had no gold to sell in the first place.
Did you… did you fail to read the very next line directly after it? Please Ziryus, do your best to keep up.
If you think actively monitoring bots is the solution to botting in the modern era, you are woefully misinformed when it comes to the topic, sorry to say.
I’ve given you the facts, but I can’t force you to read them or believe them. You are welcome to conspire about whatever you please, but it will not be an effective way to get LFD back in the game. It didn’t work with the AV changes or dual spec in TBC, it won’t work now.
It’s obviously not because it’s at the end of the day more profitable to try to automate bot policing, get worse results than active monitoring and just eat the resulting loss of subs.
If the goal was purely to combat botting active monitoring would be the way to go, it is of course more expensive than just doing a ban wave every few months(and would also cost the revenue those bots generate)
If you think the bean counters at blizzard haven’t sat down looked at the revenue bots bring in, how much the current solution costs, how much a more effective solution would cost(including lost revenue from bots) and how many subs they lose with the current situation vs how much more retention they could have then I have a bridge to sell you. Think about it like this at 15$ an hour so a pretty bad pay rate, a single GM would have to save over 160 legitimate subs a month just to break even on his salary, not counting other expenses and lost botting revenue.