Nuff said. Total disrespect to people actually playing the game. Way to go Blizz. Do something about it!
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What did the Mechagnomes ever do to you? lol
(Get it? Because Mechagnomes are robots lol)
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Ok then. Now, do you have a suggestion past “do something”?
One of the key issues is that there are a ton of known botting points currently, and if something changes, then those points can also change. What do you want them to do? Assign a GM to literally watch the XY coordinates of Z zone all day long, which would essentially take the attention of that GM off of other things such as tickets?
After that, what then? A fair number of bots either originate from compromised accounts, or accounts that they literally buy with the gold they have farmed. In rare cases, if they do have to outright pay for a new account, why would the gold farmer care? Paying for a new account and Shadowlands is chump change when one bot has the potential to generate hundreds if not thousands of dollars from the idiots willing to buy illicit gold if it manages to remain undetected long enough.
Finally, when you get rid of one bot, there’s generally another five waiting for the eventual banning of the first one. What’s your solution for that?
Now, don’t take me the wrong way. I’m a big proponent for reporting them and helping get them identified so that Blizzard can take action. I’m not stupid enough to tell you “don’t report them, it doesn’t matter.” However, it’s easy to jump up and down and yell “DO SOMETHING!” without offering a solution to a problem that is a bit more complex than many people seem to realize as this is an issue that plagues all MMOs in some form.
So, with that said, what it your solution to it since you seem to think it’s as easy as “doing something?”
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While I won’t disagree, I think the bigger problem is that none of us have a solution that blizz would actually listen to (they don’t even listen to beta testers) AND all the steps they’ve claimed to have taken have done nothing.
In fact, I dare say the issue has gotten worse. I see hordes of boomkins spamming multiple places every. single. day. and there is nothing we can do about it. I try reporting them, but I’m literally the only one there, so blizz will ignore it because their own “bots” won’t even look at a flagged player until a number of people report it (this has been proven true).
This really is on Blizz to fix, not us.
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I give bots hugs and kisses. They’re nice.
Can you prove that you actually see bots?
Do you have proof they are bots?
I once watched a group in Ardenweald, a huge group of boomkins. I tagged one with a raid marker and watched as it just literally ran around in circles, like someone was holding A and W and never letting go. I couldn’t count all of them, but there were at least 10-15 all doing the same thing and all with identical names, except for a changed letter at the end.
Akkkkkkkkkksssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhuuuuuuuuaaaaaaaalllllllllyyyyyyyyyyy they’re closer to cyborgs since they have flash parts as well.
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For a moment I thought you were trying to make a dial-up modem startup sound 
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It depends on the Mechagnome. The ancient Mechagnomes of Ulduar are 100% robotic, and the Heritage Armor of the Playable Mechagnomes is supposed to be “full mechanization”.
https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/132054-archivist-mechaton.jpg
After a long work week, Mortis, thank you for the chuckle.
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Part of the problem is that bots and the bot makers adapt. That was a big reason why the bans were done in big waves back in the day as the proactive approach would just tip them off and make them find ways to either circumvent the system or appear more like a legit player.
Seems to me the approach now is proactive, but reliant on player reports. As bad as it may appear, I have a feeling the issue would be much worse if they did this in waves like they did before.
I am curious as I do not think that the botters are selling the gold for real money. The cost of gold is equiv to the cost of tokens so why bother buying and risking your account instead of buying a token.
There has to be a way to make actual money so I wonder how the bots are doing it. Can the tokens be used on other games? Is there real money to be made with stuff that can be bought with tokens other than wow items?
Figure out how the real money is being made and find a way to stop that action then the botters naturally disappear. Trying to stop the botters instead is an act of futility.
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At least from BFA until now, it’s been open-world mount drops and special, extremely expensive mog gear that drops from random world mobs.
The Ardenweald group I watched was farming mog items (I forget the exact item at the moment), but it sells for almost 5-6 figures on the AH.
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Not his job to provide a solution. That’s Blizz’s problem.
Mate, lets be real, bots are freaking obvious to identify.
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You can do something yourself by repeatedly using clickable items dropped in their path.
There are plenty of places that offer in game gold for real money, I’d suspect they would probably be a fair bet as a suspect.
Yes, and then make a big show of banning them. Post the numbers on the forums. I believe FF14 does this.
That doesn’t mean GM’s have to sit there and do that forever, but enough to make it clear that Blizzard is actively banning obvious botters when they see it.
Another nice thing would be to tamp down on the whole sales/boosting/coaching crap. That stuff is absolute poison for the game.
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this sounds like a multiboxer… bots tend to have keyboard-smash names…
where as legit boxers will often name their characters
Blurpa
Blurpb
Blurpc
Blurpd
etc.
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