The bot problem

If your goal is to “Prove that there is botting in World of Warcraft”, Tomokoh, you might save yourself some time and just search for the terms on youtube yourself for some of the older recordings. If you think by exposing the not very hidden truth, that botting exists, that we’re going to change our tactics and investigation methods though, it simply won’t.

There has been botting and exploitation off and on in World of Warcraft since it began. Over the years our Hacks Team has gotten pretty good at hunting them, developing various protections that help prevent many of the known botting and exploitation techniques used as well methods to detect it when they are used.

This isn’t a simple task though, as we learn more so do the botters. They develop different and more evasive programs that try to remain undetected. It is a constant back and forth and one that we usually win, but it takes time and effort to make sure that we’re hitting the right folks and not mistakenly getting those that are legitimate players. As much as we’d like it, we can’t just snap our fingers and remove them.

If you feel like taking video that would be helpful though, feel free to submit those links through the Hacks Webform. That certainly would help in their investigation.

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