Please crack down on bots

Breakbeat-kilrogg · January 10, 2021, 5:31am

Not able to buy crafting mats from the AH

If Blizz developers and technicians really did what people say they do (like, sit around and play Yahtzee or something for the entirety of their shift and not care about bots) WoW would literally crash in a relatively short amount of time, and that would be that. Every thief that wanted to multibox 100 bots would do so, which would prompt other theives to multibox 100 bots, then 1000 bots, etc. It would tank the whole game and it would never come back up.

As Ruffle said, they deserve credit for their work. All of the “Blizzard doesn’t care about X issue” is just kind of lame. Of course they do. Otherwise, they literally would ignore the bots and the bugs and just let the whole thing turn into a dumpster fire, which it would in a very short amount of time.

Then people would truly see what an MMO is like when the developer ignores bugs and bots. Actually, most of them probably wouldn’t, because such a game wouldn’t manage to stay live for long at all.

Edited for more emphasis on “bots” vs. “bugs.” Same difference, though.

Blizzard fights the good fight against bots all day, every day. You would not like it at all if they actually ignored botting or even let up just a smidge on their war against it. The game is as “bot-free*” as it is, because they constantly battle the bots.

Just like in real life - we fight crime, but some crime will always exist, forever and ever. You can go to the mall without fear of being robbed or assaulted, though those crimes do exist in some places right in the city you live in.

*Yes, bot-free. There are like 250 servers, amounting to something over 10,000 total zones. Are there bots in 100 of them? Sure. But that also means there are like 9,900 zones game-wide that are bot-free. You gotta look at the whole picture, not just one pixel.