There are so many bots that I think they’ve taken over whole layers and caused the server to have a fourth layer lately. Today I can get onto layer 2 or 4, if at all. I do my best to find, report and kill them, but when I see a few running from one SM instance to the next in just the minute or so I’m out there with a group member, it’s pretty depressing. They start new bots every day, too. I can sometimes find and get them in Durotar, but often enough they’re on some layer I can’t get to. I followed one from Astraanar into Felwood before the operator finally noticed and took over control, and then the bot vanished to another layer.
What makes it depressing?
I’m curious why someone would take this to heart. Of course I understand that botting is against the rules, and as such is just a bad thing, but in all the time that I’ve played WoW, it would be difficult for me to articulate how my experiences have been negatively impacted by bots.
To be fair though, I haven’t run into tons of bots very often. I recall a handful of times; At some point seeing “tons” (maybe tens) of bots in starting zones, seeing groups of (also maybe 10-ish) DKs following the same path in AV, and while farming herbs/mining nodes seeing what appear to be bots (though in this case, I was often able to kill them and take the node for myself, since I play on PvP servers, and most of the time in my experiences they were on the opposite faction).
Anyway, I hope you cheer up and feel better, and don’t let the idea of bots get you down. But I’d also like to know about what sorts of impact you’re facing that causes such depression upon seeing bots.
Cheer me up? Not in the slightest. Blizzard fails to take this problem seriously and the servers are overrun with them. This isn’t the game I remember, nor is it the company I remember. They used to care and the game used to be full of humans, not bots and gold sellers and buyers. That game is dead because this company allowed it to die.
How hard can it be for these profit-focused asshats to figure out that a troll hunter called “Ghdfgj” running around on a fixed path for hours every day is a bot and ban it? Why do they bother letting us report them as bots if they don’t really care? And clearly they don’t care. They opt to let this go on.
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I would assume that it is mostly because of the culture that the developers are cultivating, as they are leading and driving the changes that facilitate the proliferation of whatever is proliferating on their servers.
Now, wherever their directives are coming from, it is likely a trickle-down effect of organizational leadership.
Probably not that hard. But it also might not be that useful or helpful to do so. Of course, it might.
You have not articulated how you are impacted by bots. Only that (what we already agree on), “bots bad because against rules”.
Does anything about how you play the game change if they do a better job of policing bots?
I didn’t offer anything that would cheer you up, I just stated that I hope you cheer up. Being depressed because you see bots in an online video game doesn’t seem like a great place to be. I hope you don’t spend too much of your time/energy on this, is what I meant. It’s maybe not that important of a thing to care about.
Would banning bots result in a revenue loss for Blizzard?
I don’t think there are all that many bots on hardcore since the server pop is so small.
Layer 4 is there because a bunch of streamers are back with hangers on.
Try a /who 20 Tanaris or Feralas or Hinterlands sometime.
And then there is the Secret Precious guild, hiding right in plain sight. A bunch of troll hunter bots and maybe 3 others.
it is almost like blizzard does not care lol
I’ve seen them in winterspring too. Who are they?