LOL
DUDE
“Accelerating our efforts” ??
STEP ON THE GAS
FLOOR IT
HIT THE NITRO
GO PUT ON “THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS” FOR THE TEAM.
That way; this garbage might actually get addressed some time in 2020.
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You have now shown us your words are useless/meaningless. You are bad, your company is bad and your customers feel bad. Activision-Blizzard will probably announce a wave of bans eventually, idiots will cheer, the problem will still continue.
You don’t care, your company doesn’t care, Bobby Kotick doesn’t care. The only thing that matters is profit. Hopefully a good enough competing product eventually comes along to steal away your took for granted customers.
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Why after right-click reporting these bots with dozens of other players are these bots not banned after literal months of exploitation?
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I get mail adverts from gold selling bots and I can only report them for ‘spamming’, what’s up with that?
And how are you supposed to report the countless bots that hide inside instances?
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Is this supposed to be translated to:
“I am acknowledging this is a problem but I have no real power to make the kind of changes that are necessary to attempt to address the problem.”
Or:
“Your complaints are finally loud enough that I have to acknowledge it but we don’t really have a plan to do anything about this.”
?
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Why on earth is this post being hidden?
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If you care about bot cheaters, then why not multibox cheaters as well? They are both automation, cheating, and exploiting. “We take strong actions against those who cheat in World of Warcraft.” Not if they multibox cheat you don’t. You literally don’t give a damn.
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Why has the bot problem become so rampant without anything being done about it? In fact mailboxes are now filling up with gold spam. It couldn’t be easier for a system to detect these mass copy/paste text letters.
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“I love Classic. I’ve been playing it since launch day and I’ll be playing it for a long long time. I just hope you guys can give Classic as much love as I do.”
-Now you’re just insulting everyone’s intelligence. You’re still <500 posts, rarely ever post in the classic section (mostly retail), and it usually takes many months plus an overwhelming amount of threads about the same issue before any attention is given what so ever. AV and this botting issue prove it quite clearly. We still don’t have a classic forum section btw. The Europe classic forum had that (and professions) in the first month.
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This just isn’t good enough, its wide spread people are starting to see the bots as something that’ll never get dealt with and we all know when people give up hope they stop trying to effect change.
Blizzard MUST hire Gm’s to fly around and inside dungeons to check on these players, just 20 mins per server per day each day a different time would be enough to massively cut down the problem.
Heck you could give players these powers on different servers and award small game time awards to those who do a good job, its completely within your range to fix these problems.
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REALLY if you want to show how much you care, STREAM the work… fuzz out the names and stuff but show GM work happening put money where your mouth is, the “thanks but we wont tell you anything” behind closed doors isn’t good enough, most other games make banning public and it gives the community a sense of hope things are happening.
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If they cant detect 0 movement , 0 damage, 0 heals in a BG how are they going to detect ones that attack mobs. They cant even detect the ones no clipping in ZG, MC, or DM.
I love how your reply has 132 likes but was also flagged by the community. Right. haha
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It is fully public for WoW Classic in China. If NetEase can do it Activision Blizzard should be able to. They could even use NetEase’s templates and their bot detection methods. They have the answer but choose not to use it.
So, basically nothing will be done. Got it.
Just as a heads up, while I’m just one subscription (and will be replaced by 10 times that amount in bot subs), I will absolutely be cancelling my subscription.
The lack of desire to address this issue is a joke and is bordering on a giant middle finger to your players (not bots, actual players).
Ye I have never seen a more useless blue post. They said literally nothing and completely ignored the outcry that report bots does absolutely nothing.
Sure they claim they ban big but as a player you will not notice it… I mean how many weeks do you have to report a bot before something is done? And like if the useless report function would just not work for a handful of people, but most people here complain that reporting does absolutely nothing and said bots are still running around
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Might be due to the content of the quoted post. That’s all I can think of.
In the time it took to write this post, you could have went and banned some bots. But here we are.
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A post like this from Kaivax might have held some currency years ago, but the situation has been allowed to become so bad before it was addressed publicly he has little to no credibility with many players.
Large swaths of people dont trust what Blizzard reps say anymore. They only respond to measureable changes within the game.
There’s a lot wrong with his post, but for starters;
A lot of boting that happens goes on inside instances. Blizzard has actually made it difficult and time consuming to report people for cheating unless you can click on the actual character and report them for cheating. If your not in the instance with them and can’t click on them, its harder to report them for cheating; or to observe them at all to know definitively whether they are cheating.
Players also don’t want to spend time running around reporting all the bots blatantly exploiting I the open world. The general sentiment is that Blizzard Entertainment ought to be moderating and maintaining their own game, not crutching in players to point out when those among them are cheating or behaving poorly.
It’s also apparent Blizzard Entrainment often doesn’t ban players who are boting right away and waits to ban in waves. The problem with this approach is that for weeks if not months…players who are playing by the rules have to deal with bots.
Players still have to deal withe the adverse effects of gold inflation.
Players still have to deal with raw resources being fundamentally more scarce.
When Blizzard waits 2-3 months to ban somebody boting to farm dreamfoil in Azshara for example…even when that character is banned…legitimate players have already been damaged for months. All that dreamfoil the bot picked is dreamfoil legitimate players couldn’t pick.
All the gold the bot made selling the dreamfoil is gold out of players pockets that doesn’t benefit other legitimate players.
The economy is broken.
The social contract is broken.
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Not to mention that they keep pretending all these bots are either stolen acc. or normal acc. using a stolen credit card. The amount of bots ingame and the fact that an acc. is cheap to maintain, while the gold profits are worth the small investment also means that a huge chunk of bots are probably just legitimate accounts with an actual subscription on a real credit card (or probably the blizz game token).
Not to mention that you can finance your classic gametime via retail tokens. So them claiming its just stolen acc or cards also smells like a lie.
They have been caught so often in a lie now that a blue post like this, means absolutely nothing.
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I’m extremely proud of you all for not gushing over this hollow response. Lesser websites would have read this crap and celebrated as if all of the bots were already removed.
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this is the biggest load of crap ive read from blizzard in a while.
in what world does the word “swift” mean SLOW AS #*$@,
apparently Blizzard’s
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