To be frank, there’s no magic bullet in this kind of thing and rushing thins will have more work to do then if one took their time. Why? Unless you want to catch a permaban because of the rush and have no means to appeal it, then it’s better to take time with it.
They don’t allow it because it’d easily end up as he-said-she-said where folks would point at one another as botters and such to get one another action with no proof to back it up.
It is at this point that we are quite frustrated, the system that exists in the game sometimes cannot match the “flight speed” to make the report, in many cases an error occurs in the process.
In this system, even though you always recommend using it, it feels like it takes too long. As I said, we are in 2024, computers are more powerful, even more so with the advent of Artificial Intelligence.
Yes, on that part I agree! There would be a war of narratives with each other.
I suspect then you have not seen the other side? The side complaining about false AI bans, mass reports, and automated replies to appeals? Just scroll down.
Blizzard tends to not only verify account suspensions, which take time, but does it and appeals manually.
They also tend to monitor bot software to not only detect it, but to also attempt to break it.
Yes, and the makers of these bots are also in the same year. They have greater advantages than they did back when WoW launched.
You keep saying that right-clicking and reporting takes too long, but typing out a post on a forum with zero evidence (which the right-click report system collects) is somehow faster in 2024?
If you’re experiencing errors with reporting, then that would almost certainly be a UI or Addon issue. Otherwise, you could report the errors in-game with the bug report system.
Right-click reporting is vastly superior for us as players as well as for Blizzard as it’s quick and simple, and the system collects the necessary data in the background to actually catch and detect real bots (not just accounts we ‘think’ are botting).
The last thing I’ll note is that the reason they take their time is to reduce false positives and to catch MORE botters than the whack-a-mole process that you would prefer they use. Instead of catching hundreds of botters quickly, they catch thousands and thousands.
Finally.
Of course I think it’s unfair! If the person has been wrongly accused, I understand the need for a full investigation, if there is evidence against the accusation, there is nothing left but time to carry out the investigations.
As for errors, errors result from the player leaving their area of vision due to the speed of the mount, which is why an error sometimes occurs when capturing the report.
I remember the “commendable” changes Blizzard made to contain bots: the ban on command mirroring programs and the more recent requirement to buy 1 month of game with currency $$.
These changes have had a severe impact in some aspects, but as you said, there will always be new searches for ways to cheat and use the bot.