Stratholm bots are so easy to see yet the same ones have existed on my server for 6 months, or since i transfered

[Delimicus-heartseeker]

Here’s the most relevant one followed by a bunch of others. There’s way more responses besides these:

Vrakthris
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Customer Support

“Additionally, the last action was not several months ago. We have various actions happening all the time, often throughout the month in both games.”

Customer Support in the Spirit of Classic

We’re going to end this here as all this back and forth is entirely unproductive. I’m afraid overall you may be operating on a bit of bad information, Leafie. Assuming any part of your “response from a GM” isn’t entirely made up for your own narrative, if a GM did at some point state that the email is used by Dev, I do apologize for the confusion. As most folks might be aware, the hacks email goes to our Hacks team, hence the aptly named address. They are the ones that do the lion’s share of …

@Orlyia

We don’t share those numbers anymore - but they are massive.

They do just fire up new ones to replace, but it isn’t a battle that we’ve ever stopped fighting.

There is truly only one way to ever STOP these guys, players have to stop giving them $. As long as they have a vested interest in returning, they will - and we’ll keep fighting them.

Bug abusers on Frostmourne OCE

Botters are met with extreme penalties, Almeria. When we can prove it. I sometimes wish we still published those numbers - but we don’t. I’ll just say, they are mindboggling numbers, but you’ll never know everything that is done behind the scenes.

Are bots not banned anymore?

Quite the contrary, they cost us an enormous amount - between the costs of fighting them, the fees that get attached to stolen cards used - and all the ill will from players. And just because we fight them, doesn’t mean they don’t come back. We do banwaves in the hundreds and thousands at a time. Within 2 days, or less, they come back - but we don’t stop fighting them, we continue to fight them. As I said, until there is no longer a financial motivation to do so, these will never go away an…

About time for a bot ban wave, ridiculous

If you see a bot, by all means report it. You need to watch what you spout as ‘facts’. We spend an insane amount of resources fighting these guys, have for years. The only real way to truly get rid of them is for players to stop giving them money. They’d disappear like a foul odor on a stiff breeze if there was no profit in it. In the meantime, we’ll keep fighting them.

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/the-amount-of-bots-on-classic-is-unacceptable/534824/44