Please, fix this problem that is all I ask.
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Seen that video of a Priest spending 10 minutes MCing the bots in Mara? They just run endlessly into a wall trying to get back up.
It would take one person a realm - hell, one person piloting multiple GM characters on many realms - to fix this problem. Blizzard just doesn’t care - it makes them money, and it makes them look better than the terrible state they’re actually in during reports.
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Per shift, 3 shifts per day, 5 days per week… Let’s not forget about breaks, vacation, sick time and benefits. It’d be boring and would likely have a lot of turnover, they’d have to pay for the hiring and training processes over and over.
Wow, that sounds like a pretty expensive solution.
That’s if it took one per shift per server… It’ll probably take several.
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Look at you doing math.
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Yeah to bad Blizzard isn’t a billion dollar company and is run out of my neighbors basement.
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They are a big company. Chances are, they’ve done the analysis:
Cost of loss of subs due to botting vs. cost to police it.
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To be honest it doesn’t take 24/7 coverage even. It just takes randomly rotating coverage that shows up a few times a week. If it happens often enough it becomes less and less profitable which could end in the removal of bots. Or at least greatly diminish the amount of them.
People often forget that you absolutely do not need someone to always be monitoring, you just need someone to actually be doing it at least sometimes.
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Looks like blizzard loves them.
You could certainly break it up some. I like that. However, dealing with the problem would be more complicated than looking at a /who list. Behavior would need to be observed. I’m pretty sure that many of these “bots” have a person behind them, and that would make it harder to bust them.
How do you distingeuish between a rogue bot and a player in BRD? A paladin in Strat? Mages in Mara or SP?
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Actually many are just bots. There are often times a person sitting behind many, many screens sort of providing overwatch but a lot of other times it’s just left to run for a bit. Maybe they have some sort of notice they can get set up to ping them if something isn’t working for long enough.
There’s a difference between the RMT people who are often times farming resources and the bots that are often times just farming instances. But yes it would certainly take at least some amount of watching them.
edit the bots are running preprogrammed lines and spell rotations.
Lol! What’s the difference between a bot and a meta gamer, then?
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Well, All we need is report feature on /who.
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It’s always easy to justify bad policies with “it’s cheaper”.
They also factor in things like user experience and customer satisfaction. That said, we’ve shown we’re probably not going anywhere, so there’s no rush to actually do something. Heck, you had a few players wishing the bots were back on these forums after a big ban wave so they could buy cheap mats.
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What? I would think that they wouldn’t be running the same pixel perfect line all the time. Or casting spells that don’t make sense with little to no awareness of mobs around or on them. Might have been a joke, sorry if it was. Lot of really dumb people commenting atm so I’m having a hard time telling if it’s humor or not.
Again, someone will have to go in and check on each player. Not that simple.
Bots are beneficial.
Why?
AH prices. Without them, everything and I mean EVERYTHING will sky rocket in price and only those who no life gdkp every week will be able to afford anything.
Go for the gold buyers imo.
Ty Bobby
Ty Kaivax
Bots also affect how much you can sell things for. And create inflation at an astronomical rate. Soooooooooooo……
Bots are your friends. Remember in classic vanilla when arcane Crystal’s were 75g+? Then the swarm of bots started doing dm jump runs and in a couple weeks they were 15g ea.
I’m not sure how the AH prices would change. Less bots farming herbs and ore might mean more for us to gather on our own.
Cloth prices have been crappy on my server. The AH is flooded with runecloth and netherweave. Enchanting mats have a similar issue. Probably due to heavy instance farming. I suppose that’s great for tailors and enchanters. Not great for those of us who rely on selling such things for income.