This is going to reduce the time that average player has to farm in a given day, and many players farm one day/week and will break this limit. As a result, the supply of herbs/ore/mats to the market will decrease, and cost will increase.
With the resulting increase, the pressure to buy gold via 3rd parties will increase, and the value of this gold to botters will increase as a result of that demand.
The only thing that this does to actual botters is mean that they have to include some logic to switch accounts 3 times a day, which is not an issue at all for them.
So let’s review what this change does:
Reduces time allotted for legitimate players to farm gold on a given day, while minorly inconveniencing botters by requiring them to add logic to switch characters 3x a day.
Increases the cost of raw materials, subsequently increasing the value of gold and pressuring legitimate players to buy gold through RMT.
Who is the mastermind at Blizzard that came up with this change?
If I want to lasher farm for 10+ hours in a day I should be able too. Seriously punishing the neckbeards that push this game to the limit because you can’t manage to deal with your botting issue. Sad just sad
That doesn’t limit their time. Head out to Loch Modan, West Fall, where ever. You will see trains of 5-6 hunters running around killing all of the mobs and picking/mining all of the resources in the zone.
This is so poorly thought out even for you Blizzard, did you REALLY think your player-base would be Okay with this?
Seriously, you are only punishing legitimate players with this change, this does nothing to affect bots as they will just use more accounts.
I have never been so disappointed with Classic than I am right now. This is just Sad.
This isn’t true at all. Feral druids will use 3-6 pummelers easily per raid depending on what there doing. And could go 10 lockouts without getting any at all. It’s no different than using swap trinkets so to say it was never intended is just silly. Like saying going to felwood before every raid wasn’t intended cause why would you go way out of the way for a buff.
Can you guys stop fan dancing around the real issues here?
Fix the pathing in dungeons that allow for terrain abuse. These exist in Zul Fakar, Maraudon, and Zul Gurub. They may exist in other dungeons too. Stop allowing your player base (bots and otherwise) to blatantly abuse the games pathing to AoE farm gold and boost players.
Get some actual game masters to moderate classic realms and roll around doing on the spot bans.
Stop waiting to ban in waves.
Start paying attention to this game.
The Blizzard team treats this community like garbage. The only time you guys show up is after popular streams/YouTubers publicly shame you into doing so. Then we get these knee jerk changes that don’t solve the core problems people are complaining about, but which penalize players.
This instance limit is clearly something that ‘easy’ and ‘cheap’ for Blizzard.
While I’m not against this change, it would suck to lose a raid lockout because I farmed one too many instance in a said day. Addons can only guess how many instances are left based on whatever information they have, which isn’t reliable. Are there any plans for a proper way to know how many lockouts are available, such as an api call or a counter/warning when you zone inside an instance?
Well so much for lvling more than one alt and playing my main on the same day. Its embarrassing that we all pay this company money to make decisions like this one.
This has to be one of the stupidest things ever implemented. I like to PL people through dungeons, do some farming, raid etc and I can say that this is a major blow to my play style. I don’t understand this it’s like “if you can’t stop the bot then punish the normal players”. Bots will open second accounts, normal players will hit a brick wall. Imagine going to your weekly raid to see that you are locked out.
This change should not affect raid instances, you should take the time to ban the flying bots in ZG. You could also take the time to ban the majority of the other bots just do a /who Strathhome…
What the actual F blizzard. WHY would you tack raids on this… so now we can’t farm effectively without risking getting locked out of raid for the day. seriously who asked for this.
I think it is time for my first forum post ever. There have been a lot of decisions made over the years that I have disagreed with, but this one sets a new standard of frustration. I doubt tossing my opinion into the mix will actually change anything, but I have to try because this one simply hits too close to home for me. It will probably mean the difference of me continuing to play classic or not.
I have spent months leveling a mage so that I could participate in many of the farms in dungeons (ZG boosting, Mara boosting, jump runs, hoj runs). I have thus far played a warrior tank and gold making was simply not as efficient as all the mages in the world. I have found it fun and rewarding to learn these runs and optimize my play style to make gold in this way. To me, this is rewarding game play and it keeps me coming back day after day.
Obviously, I want to see moves made to eliminate the botting issues. It will be more rewarding to participate in this type of content if there are not bots, but this is not a solution that will fix the problem. Many people have already stated, but this will affect real players more than it will affect bots.
A lot of people argue that hitting 30 dungeons in a day is unrealistic unless you are a bot, and I simply have to disagree. I regularly hit over 30 instances in a day when I am farming these runs. People are going to get locked out of raids when they don’t expect to. There will be lots of problems that will follow this change, and it doesn’t even solve the purpose that it is supposed to.
This will not actually affect the bots and here is why…The reason bots exist is most often to make ludicrous amounts of gold. They do not need this gold personally, and so they end up selling it for money. This funds there botting operation and funds multiple accounts to use. This change does not affect bots if they are using numerous accounts. They will likely make more of a profit now because the cost of their services will go up since it is more restricted.
This change feels like a slap in the face to people who have worked hard to get established in these markets legitimately. I have spent months of my time preparing for this content and making plans to fund my raiding for AQ and Naxx, and this happens once I finally get established. I beg you Blizzard to step down from making this change. It will negatively affect your game, and it will hurt many of the players that actually love Classic WoW (not those abusing it).