Haha, I don’t think people actually bot are going to be paying attention to the WoW forums or caring most people think about them.
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Your right, they dont care. And for whatever reason more bots are horde side…no idea why that is.
Stuff has been done. They just make so much money that replacing them isn’t enough to discourage the botters. It’s also hard to implement rules that affects botters in a large way without affecting players in a large way.
Bots are in every MMO for a reason. Idiots will go to a 3rd party website and pay cash for gold.
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Not enough.
Disagree with that. I think its pretty easy to find / root out bots. Personally speaking this is not a challenge for me.
Well that is true…
It’s not a problem for a lot of people. Spotting bots is generally easy. The problem is making a program that can do it.
I definitely think that bringing back actual GM’s would likely be the best idea and just have them patrol heavy bot areas, but we all know Blizzard won’t do that as their presence in the game and forums seems to be lower and lower every year.
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I think a program that could flag people that are farming with sub 1k achievement points would be a good start. These botters rush straight to max lvl and start botting right away. They dont run dungeons, they dont raid, they do nothing but bot. Would be a good place to start. At least until they catch on.
But even when they do catch on making them do things besides botting is a good thing. Surely people that are being paid to combat this problem can come up with better ideas than mine, right?
They’re always fighting bots.
It’s just that there’s so much demand from their services from the players willing to break the rules that they’ll always exist. Gotta remember that it’s the players that enable this.
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Botting in WoW has been a problem since I started back in TBC. Blizz bans the bots and their accounts. Programmers create new ones. And the cycle repeats. Blizz makes programs to try and stop the bots, Programmers make new botting programs. It is a spiral right now. It happens in every online game with serious playerbase and economy.
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I’m always more surprised they don’t just follow the trail of gold.
"Oh the botter sent 800k gold to this account, and this account sent gold to these accounts…"and so on.
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Exactly. Just use some common sense and logic to fight these bots. I am just not seeing the effort from blizz. Its like they have given up.
Maybe they are lax b/c of the buyout with microsoft. They are just like “who cares we are being bought out anyways” and just passing the issue along…
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I would love if Microsoft had some way to combat botters, but I doubt it
Couldnt be much worse honestly. Sadly more and more people gotta speak up, post videos, and complain. Bad PR is the only motivation for these corporations to act sadly.
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The fundamental problem is that you’re thinking about this like a hammer thinks of a nail. It’s not as simple as “see bots, ban bots.” You’ll never solve anything doing it that way, you have to try and identify what the bots are actually doing and see if there is a way to make changes that either breaks their functionality, or makes it unprofitable to do their given activity. Banning is a temporary solution.
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Its better than no solution. Keep banning them in a timely fashion and it becomes unprofitable for them to keep buying the game and leveling to max. The more effort they have to put forth the harder it is to bot.
Every month they publish an “actioned accounts report” where they routinely ban hundreds of thousands of accounts. I don’t know how much more timely that could be.
Botting happens at an industrial scale, losing an account is not as expensive as you might think it is. Bans go out, new accounts are almost immediately set up and set to run within a few hours.
Account loss is almost certainly factored into monthly operations calculations for these folks as much as electricity and staffing might be.
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Blizz fully supports and endorses botting. The proof is right there when you see them all over every zone 24/7.
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If 10 GMs banned one bot every single minute, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, they would ban 96,000 in a month, which is MUCH less than their current reports of bands.
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Nah no way man. I am not seeing bots and neither are you! How do you know that they are bots? Its just a conspiracy theory! /s
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Just to give you an idea of what they are up against.
vs what bot farming used to look like:
Gone are the days where it’s just one dude with a setup in his pantry. It’s a factory now.
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Very true, but it would work, because they use to exist, they even had an island with a “penalty box” they would port you into to have a talk.
But they abused the power, spawning bosses in cities and such so I hear, now they just don’t exist.
They need to come back is all I’m saying, with enough discipline not to abuse the power of being a god in the game.
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