Region Wide AH was a mistake please revert

[Argorwal-ysera (Argorwal)]

@Erpolith-moon-guard

@Kennie-malganis

They’ve always cared about botting, it’s just important to remember that no matter how aggressively they action them that they’ll always come back because they have so many willing customers.

I still like to believe hiring a small team to surveil in-game for active bots is not a hard thing to get up and running. Suspend and ban bots on the spot as most of them are obvious. Even teleporting them to a temp holding cell to make them verify legit play.

Doing a sweep every month or so after all the items have already flooded the market is just done to give us the illusion they care.

Let’s do some math.

In December 2023 Blizzard announced they actioned 270,970 accounts.

If they hired a “small team” of let’s say 5 people.

Now if those 5 people banned a bot every single minute, of every day, for the entire month of December. Worked 24 hours a day, zero breaks, no sleep, no food, nothing but continuous banning, they would ban 216,000 accounts.

Which is less than what Blizzard already did.

When people say things like hire some people to manually get bots I don’t think they comprehend the scale.

Recent Actions Against Exploitative Accounts – December 2023

To provide more transparency on the actions we take against cheating and exploitation, here is an accounting of the number of actions that were taken over the last month, December 2023: Total Exploitative WoW Account Actions in December 2023: 270970 All of these actions were for cheating or exploitation, which primarily result in permanent bans or 6-month suspensions. This number does not include other actions such as those taken on accounts with character name or in-game language violations. …