Bleeding Hollow @ Blood Gate in Dazar’alor. Sitting next to about 6 hacked/botted accounts that have been here for at least an hour just bot farming mobs. Please someone come in and ban or disconnect these accounts at least and restore some faith for me. I’ve seen this everyday for a week now, all on this continent, and it seems that it is what is tanking the crafting economy. I left other games to come back to this to get away from hacking and cheating, not stare at it for an hour with zero consequence. Please allow Game Masters or some sort of admin on the servers to police this. Heck, even just monitor the Auction House, as people selling 50-100k leather is a pretty massive red flag that they are likely cheating. Thank you for your time, and have an awesome Monday.
-From Japan with love-
There are no GMs here, only SFAs. You believe them to be bots but it could also be that it’s a multiboxer. Either way, they never ban bots like that. They take the time to learn from them and break them. Nothing is instantaneous.
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Right-click Report them if you feel they are doing something wrong. That is the best thing you can do.
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I reported them, at least the one’s i was able to click. They are all bot accounts, have the exact same equipment and all running druids to lure and spam the mobs. Seen this exact same thing multiple times for a week now. I know nothing will likely come of the post, but is this a consistent thing in WoW now? Would it not reduce the bot farming by removing the instant 120 character coins?
Right click - report them for cheating if you feel they are.
GM’s will never ban here and there. It’s pointless as it just alerts the bot makers that they’ve been detected. After Blizz studies them, works out how to break that bot (for the time being), and identifies users of that bot, they will unleash a mass ban.
Sadly, it’s a temp fix. The only way to truly stop it is for players to stop cheating and creating the market for them.
No - they will often use stolen accounts regardless.
Investigations can take weeks, even months.
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You assume they are bot accounts.
If you would like to suggest a change in how WoW works, post in GD.
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Roger, thank you for the explanations.
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It may be botters, it may also just be a multiboxer which is 100% an allowable playstyle. Also its not whats tanking materials, the xpack rolling up to a close in 2 months is whats tanking the materials market along with newbie gold sellers who havent worked out how to utilise TSM and the AH properly yet. MB’s dont like tanking markets, it completely negates their goals and playtime.
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Wouldn’t go that far. Vrakthris mentioned that sometimes they do, I think. Basically it’s all about making sure the other side is in the dark. But yeah, usually ban waves happen when either a bot’s ability to operate is broken, or their way of getting past the game’s antimalware, or just when they can very easily detect it so banning becomes so easy that the current incarnation of the program basically becomes useless.
Tl;dr is as you said though. It’s a complicated arms race that never ends and it’s just about getting one step ahead of each other. But as long as crime pays, crime will happen. Report suspicious activity if you see it, that goes a long way. Basic process is investigate > make inoperable > ban users.
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