But now you need to take the L is what I was saying. Remember, anyone can pull the, “Hey man, just take the L” line. Did it work on you?
I already told you I conceded to your flawless YouTube video argument you posted earlier. Clearly I was outmatched by this “Asmongold” and his angry rant.
This might create a precedence at where some players might believe that they are not rewarded enough compared to other players when doing the same job.
I think that our best reward and most important is to actually get rid of the bots or at least make them to be far less significant in game.
So if we could have a better reporting system at where players that successfully report bots over a period of time will have a higher priority and the reported bots will be reviewed faster then we might actually be able to tackle the issue with bots once and for all.
A better reporting system? Like, I know there’s the four categories you can choose from: Language, Name, Spam, Cheating. I’d personally like for “Cheating” to give a more detailed panel in order to streamline the reporting process. The details I want to give don’t always fit within the box I’m given.
As for this topic, I thought it would be a good way to incentivize bot reporting in general. Whether or not players believe they’re rewarded enough? Just keep in mind, so many players already don’t believe reporting even works because, “Oh I saw a bot.”
I think a reward system might better convince people that Blizzard does, indeed, take their reports seriously. The reward wouldn’t even need to be gold, either. I’d personally settle with rep tokens for Cenarion Circle or Argent Dawn, but a reward could also be something as simple as a stat buff (which would entice folks who like to parse).
This idea gets implemented:
Behold the new gold botting meta, run gold farming bots as normal, use legitimate account to report all your own bots, offload all your gold frequently, blizzard bans your own bots you yourself reported, rake in that free blizzard bot reporting gold.
Rinse and repeat
Stonks
How are you going to sustain a market that relies on your constantly eliminating your own accounts by reporting them?
Because as proven by the fact they keep doing it, they make enough gold in the botting accounts lifespan befor they are banned to make it worth it to continue making new botting accounts
Hence the step “offload all your gold frequently”
This reward system would just give gold botters a way to gain extra gold everytime one of their bots gets banned
Kind of like a built in bot reimbursement service courtesy of blizzard
Those accounts only last insofar as they go unreported and unnoticed.
What your suggestion is that a new system would rise up that would actually rely on individual accounts doing mass false-flag reports of other accounts they would also have to buy again and again and again just to sustain a system that seeks to profit from doing just that.
In context, this would be like you paying $15 dollars for a new subscription in order to make 5 gold from your current account by making a false report on your new account. Then do that 10 ($150) more times in order to make 50 gold. How feasible is that?
Imo, blizzard staff just can’t keep up with controlling the bots. We are talking about thousands of bots being handled by a small team most likely. Blizz just needs to allocate more resources tbh.
I think those resources have been allocated to the players, in a manner of speaking. I’m just asking that players receive something in return rather than a simple “Thank you.”
Even if this doesn’t solve the overall problem (which it probably won’t) this will at least give more players and incentive to make reports when they see rather than say, “Oh, another one. I could fill out a report but, ain’t nobody got time for that.”