"This character does not have access to this bank." Warband bank broken

[Pawgwalker-dalaran]

Like I explained in another thread the other day:

@Pawgwalker-dalaran

Even on a 4h cooldown, that still means you could farm 6,000g per license per 24h with a bot operation or 48,000g per fully stacked account per 24h or somewhere around 1.5 million gold per month. EDIT: Correction, the cooldown is 2h, so it would be double all those amounts: 12k per account per 24h, 96k per bnet account(8 accounts attached) per 24h and around 3mil per month on a full bnet account. And that’s for free(after buying the base game) without having to pay for an active sub. If you wanted to, you’d only need to pay for time for the master account and not the alt accounts, if you wanted to move the gold around. Obviously, bot farms are doing stuff like this with hundreds of accounts and licences at a time.

Basically, bot networks could farm ~3mil gold per month per fully slotted bnet account (8 wow licenses per bnet account) and you’d only need to activate game time on one of those accounts every once in a while. Like you cold farm to gold cap while inactive, then once you hit the gold cap, you’d add game time to one of the licenses, move the gold around or do whatever you want with it, then go back into farm mode.

This change breaks that behaviour and rightfully so. It’s pretty easy to make 1000g in two hours and it’s also a lot easier to hide botting operations when you have a network of bots stochastically farming seemingly innocuous things.