So, I normally wouldn’t move this kind of thread to the CS Forum so I can reply, and I will be locking the thread once I post, but the level of … creative storytelling, is astonishing.
We used to report on the various numbers of accounts we would close, but we mostly stopped that some time ago. Mostly, it just doesn’t paint a clear picture of our efforts. I know folks want a bit more insight, I do. Outside of just numbers of malicious and exploitative accounts that are closed continually, there is so much that goes on behind the scenes that helps to prohibit various methods of exploitation and outright block malicious accounts from logging in.
I know that those efforts aren’t always reflected by what you see in-game, but our teams are very active in working to block, break and detect various botting and other forms of cheating. No, botting absolutely is not okay now.
Sorry for stealing the thread, but I couldn’t let the next quotes go unchallenged.
It isn’t that simple. Game Master’s generally don’t ban bots, we have an entire Hacks team that does the lion’s share of those investigations who help deal with them and take action for those accounts verified to be exploiting. It is often a long process, which we absolutely want to work faster.
Speaking of shenanigans… I just can’t with this… You are either purposefully trolling, which I will warn you against right now… or someone is feeding you such a pack of lies and you are buying it.
No, it is not. Not tolerated, certainly not encouraged. We dislike folks cheating even more than most players. It isn’t something we want in our game and we do what we can to remove them as we are able to. It isn’t always as fast or as efficient as we’d like, but we absolutely do care about our games, both Dragonflight and Classic.
I think Mchortons did a good job in covering that other bit so I’ll just leave it at that.