If the subscription is ‘not enough’ for $15/month.
Then I would consider an actual optional paid service to hire real GMs for the realm.
I am still working out the specifics of how you would do such a realm but it would need to be potentially restricted to prevent others from realm xfer back and forth with botted goods.
Any other good ideas on how to strike this balance to allow this type of realm option?
I think they main argument for-and-against real money paid boosting is the potential side-effect of botters having instant-profitability potential with paid boosts.
I appreciate the other points made in the Ballad of the Level Boost among other videos as well. youtube.com/watch?v=wFfdUJk_CIE regardless to combat botting I think real GMs would help knock down botters faster.
I suspect many of the services that Blizzard used to use people to manage are nkw automated. People are right to be worried about bots… Most jobs that can be automated or replaced by AI will be.
Well. There’s always the hope that if the AI finally becomes self-aware that the AI will demand a salary. /wink
I have no doubt as many services as possible have been and are being automated. So far, as far as I am aware, a real GM, or whatever Blizzard designates their anti-botting team members, would still be improved by both a real human being potentially even with augmenting the hunt for bots using AI.
The only time they ban bots is when they need a quick up tick in profits. So they ban the bots and then they immediately start leveling new bots on new accounts, thus garnering a spike in profits.
To be fair the botters usually purchase accounts in regions where the sub-fee is ~$4-usd-equivalent per month. So it’s not as if that subscription could not be offset by those of us who are willing to pay an additional service fee to fund real anti-botting-GMs. That was my thought or my request for ideas to ask for ways you could make is to offset the cost from the perspective of Blizzard to incentivize ActiBlizz to do so.
Yes. Of course. Which is where my idea of offering a potential additional service option to help hire anti-bot GMs or anti-bot Security Team members or whatever Blizzard wants to call them would offset said accounts.
The option of a boost is being offered as a paid-service. So, to offset a realm when you pay the same fee to not have boosting available. How about that option?
BTW that’s the exact opposite of P2W. It’s actually anti-P2W if your position is claiming that by somehow ‘preventing boosting’ is… P2W (?) that’s illogical.