So like I was saying, you don’t trust Blizzard either so what do you want?
What I want is for them to put some effort into fixing obvious issues, like the mass botting. They’re bringing in a lot of money off classic, yet providing some of the most subpar service in the gaming industry.
Even a bare minimum amount of support and effort would have prevented most issues, such as them not once but twice destroying multiple servers with free xfers, and as has been said and shown with videos many times the botting problem is obvious and all over the place with no consequence and massive detrimental effects, a single person could easily clean this up within days.
Of course, that’s where their deceptive nature comes in- if they look at bots as subs, and destroyed servers as thousands of PCTs then it’s not hard to conclude their awful service is them making a bad game out of greed.
What I want and what I expect are entirely different.
They banned over 200,000 characters about 10 days ago in China. This week, they banned 100,000 characters.
I have this suspicion that you don’t know what you’re talking about.
I had a buddy who was a WoW GM back in the Vanilla days. At the time he was scouted based on his time logged on to the game as well as good/helpful behaviour. He was not paid to do it, he did it because he loved the game (at the time).
I’m sure there are people who would be willing to do that. But then if one of them oversteps their bounds Blizz is gonna be the one to catch flack for it. As a result it’s highly unlikely that Blizz would consider this sort of thing in the game these days.
You can have peer reviews, or make it so that multiple moderators have to unanimously agree on the decision (and hide players names and guilds etc).
This wouldn’t be a band aid where you just make people some sort of GMs and call them moderators, this is something they should invest in as a service to maintain the integrity of the game in the long term.
Not easy, but letting these bots go rampant won’t do their game much good.
I agree. Something definitely needs to be done about the bots and it’s obvious that the migration away from live GMs and towards automated reports has been a detriment in this case.
I just look at some of the threads here on the forum wherein players blame Blizzard for the actions of other players (pvp on a pvp server - yes, I know it’s a meme at this point but it’s the example that immediately comes to mind) and honestly don’t see Blizz doing it even though it would, if done right, be potentially great.
Personally, I can’t see this being a good idea on the realm “Arugal”.
It’d be abused, that’s for certain.
Though, I do welcome Community Members that’s reports or identifications of botting players be based on an accuracy meter, the more accurate the player’s report history is - the more priortized their complaints are over the masses in their queues.
It would be a pleasure for me to do it for free, not just in WoW but other games I play like Battlefield V which are infested with cheaters too.
Are any of the ways you do not see analogous to if it was in-house employees?
“I’m a Moderator, Give me the loot or you will be flagged as botting.”
Even peer reviews are worthless if all the “peers” are of the same mindset.
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Can we get goats? At least goats don’t have politics.
There are countless examples in this forum where a player demands that something to be illegal in WoW, but Blizzard would not do it. We can’t start letting players define the rules of the game. We can’t have hundreds of different rule-sets, depending on what “mod” you happen to be near.
I’ve been reported as a “bot”. How many other player reports are false? Blizzard employees have tools to check further. Is it okay to perma-ban a normal, honest player’s only account because you SUSPECT he is a bot? Heck no!
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No. Player mods would be horrible. Guaranteed abuse of power.
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