Ok so according to his post you want to make rotations easier to access so people dont bot them??
Thats not what he meant at all
Yes? what do they do with that gold? Buy things? Make those things easier to get and people won’t feel the need/want to buy gold. I’m well aware of the issue, Blizzard is the one that seems to be confused and thinks banning them over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over is going to change anything.
This is why you perma the buyers
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That just continues the loop. They just buy new accounts and make Blizzard more money.
I don’t care how many accounts they buy, long as they quit cheating.
Long story short…
I hope cheaters get banned permanently on that account as many times as it takes for them to learn their lessons.
If you’re botting, hacking, buying gold, selling gold, exploiting the game engine, or any other cheat I cant think of at the moment should be harshly punished with a perma ban.
I’m confused by your replies to me, but yes I agree perma banning rule breakers is good, but almost 20 years of ban waves has shown us how little effect it actually has on botting and isn’t the solution to the problem otherwise we’d have less bots banned monthly not more.
The problem is that they have for such a long time only given the buyers a slap on the wrist with a temp ban… I know many people who have gotten week or two long bans for buying gold then they got their characters back. This was in Classic 2019.
However contrast this to Vanilla, where they were straight up ruthless with buyers and botters permanent banning them without mercy and that was it; the account was banned and deleted forever with no chance of recovery. That strong stance on cheating did actually work well…
This all changed in Mid TBC where they went soft on cheating and the cheaters learned fast that it was not gonna be dealt with and so cheating evolved into what we have now over the last 16 years.
Another month, another irrelevant “we banned X accounts” thread. It’s all for naught when you sell an instant level 80. Thanks to your new boost, a bot can literally be replaced faster than the time it took your staff to look at reports, and that’s after they’ve piled up enough for someone to do so. If you really gave a crap about bots, you wouldn’t put in an instant 80 boost in a game already rampant with bots. You wouldn’t be selling a boost in the first place.
“We continue to evolve our methods.” You put in a new instant 80 boost for them to use. You evolved THEIR method.
Blizzard can’t stop botters because it takes them too long to get to accounts, and they probably miss half of them anyway. By the time a botter is hit, they’ve easily profited over the cost of setting up the bot… meaning they’ll happily eat the loss, crank out a new bot, and go right back to doing it. Blizzard seems fine with this, as returning bots keep paying for new subs/boosts. Blizzard is basically sharing revenue with botters then pretending to give a crap about the game.
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They, the gold buyers, should be arrested and prosecuted criminally for theft of services and IP.
Thats different. They should be banned for streaming and being zoomers.
Probably hacking and lying to you
Guildie got permanently banned for buying gold. Sucks because the guild spent months in Ulduar getting him Val. First time offense. No previous warnings. No previous temporary suspensions. Just a perma-ban.
I get that he shouldn’t have bought non-Blizzard gold. But damn. WoW has been around for nearly 20 years, and in the 17 years I’ve been playing, I’ve never heard of a permanent account closure for a first-time offense like this. It’s honestly sort of terrifying to see such a policy change implemented with no warning. Not to mention sort of unfair when you consider the millions of players who collectively have bought billions upon billions in gold over that time span, who, when caught, received much lighter, temporary punishments.
I haven’t spoken with the guilldie personally since his ban, but I bet most people would have stopped buying if you’d posted a notice about the incoming change in punishment severity.