That’s true, companies use data. But there’s too much. They’ve been trying to use topology to try to get a grasp of what all the big data means… It’s actually forming a new branch of mathematics. Fascinating stuff. It’s been a few years since I’ve looked into it, and I’m sure they’ve made lots of progress, but it’s typically years before the theoreti6stuff makes it into the mail stream business world.
Blizzard is probably using more conventional in-house techniques to monitor what’s up.
I realize that. Problem is, I don’t know if folks in the industry are humble enough to admit that there’s too much to grasp. And so, they take action based on their own presumptions. Which, incidentally, is probably why silence is the best policy when it comes to their decision-making.
I’ve worked a job where I’ve read a script to people. Often said script involves giving the customer a poll. The poll doesn’t mean anything, it’s just a way to get the customer to respond so that we can eventually start selling something.
Personally, I’ve never seen the data on how effective those particular sales pitches are. What I have assumed is that my company used this “poll” because their data showed a higher success rate at making sales when using it than not using it.
Since the market is constantly changing, I’ve assumed companies like Blizzard want to continually test the waters and see about prospecting new customers.
I do not, for one second, believe that a certain streamer’s migration to FF14 was a decision made organically. I think it was completely a market-based decision.
That’d cost a lot more than you think. I’m sure Blizzard’s done the analysis: Cost of policing bots vs. cost of lost subs. I’d be willing to bet the first one costs way more.
Everyone in instances is running scripts? The gold farming companies aren’t hiring people to play for them? What about players farming? How would you really know what someone in an instance is doing? I’d bet YOU don’t.
Well, think about this. Bots are rampant in a lot more games than WoW. I know FF14, for instance, experiences its own share of bots.
For all anyone knows, whatever companies are using these bots seem to have enough resources to stick with it, even throughout all of Classic WoW into today. That’s even after Blizzard’s reportedly banning thousands of them.
So, this has been going on for a long time. Meanwhile players are constantly kept in the dark. The assumption I’ve made is players are kept in the dark because any public knowledge about what Blizzard is doing could also be used by the folks running the bots to better hide their tracks. It’s better for Blizzard to do whatever it does without too much of a spotlight so that botters are less aware of what’s going on.
But, that all being said, they still exist. Even after so many years. We must have a pretty high tolerance level…
At what point does the playerbase realize it’s a lost cause and simply jump ship?
Oh, I’m just waiting for a day, years from now, where some disgruntled Blizzard employee breaks the silence and starts telling the community what was really going on.
But, by that time, it’ll be too late. The damage will be done, and folks will have moved on. Maybe Cataclysm Classic will have been hyped up during this time, or maybe Panda Land…
Bots don’t have a person behind them. That’s the whole point of botting. Cauchy’s post was just a hand-waving, “Bots exist because Blizzard can’t figure it out.”
Go troll elsewhere. I’m not required to address every single point every single poster makes. Especially from YOU. That’s why I block quoted. Exactly like this:
I told you exactly how. And yes, you are still arguing.
I believe blizzard has no really resource for solving this problem. They tried and couldn’t come up with a solution. So they keep saying something about the bots being banned.
Simply put, whatever solution blizzard has, it’s not working, but they keep using that some method. Either just straight say, we can’t handle it, or try something different.
It’s videos like the priest mc’s 20 bots that show blizzard isn’t even trying.
At what point do we admit crime in real life is out of hand and just give up.
I get it’s a game, I get it’s not that serious. Not really trying to make the comparison. Just saying it’s a stupid to let the wrong doer win. Why give up and let them win?
I don’t disagree its an issue but I think its smaller than Blizzard not caring. I think that nobody wants that job. I don’t want to go to work and look for bots and MC then every day.