Regardless of a companies size or worth every faces these struggles of resources and budgets.
1 ruins pugs, not everyone raids in guild environment and not every pug is a gdkp
2 gdkps are not against tos and not all gdkps are rmt related though a very high majority is.
3 no comment there
4 you can’t tell a player is a bot by a name
5 no comment here
6 a lot of rmt sites probably have sites hosted in places that blizzards has no jurisdiction
7 not ever account uses an authenticator though i think they should
I can personally call Tauren droppings on this one.
I’ve working in a 1200 employee companies IT department. 2 of us automated all of their active directory systems for the HR department in 3 months, full link to ADP with two step auto trigger for new employees. All within SOX2 and HIPPA guildlines.
It’s not this massive undertaking that your describing and thinking it is. They simply don’t want to do it or budget the resources. Literally they’re saying they’d rather milk the playerbase than pay the whopping 60-100k in salaries to fix the damn problem in less than 6 months.
This is purely a cash grab using their failure to properly budget for security in game as an excuse.
HAHASHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHASHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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I think it’s more than last straw. I don’t think anybody who continues to support Classic or has been here since 2019 and continues to play after this, has any integrity.
It’s not it is 100% the truth, obviously some companies challenges are easier to overcome then others. I’m not defending blizzard I’m clearly pointing out that sometimes resources or budgets do not work for some circumstances. Or sometimes if they do the is it worth it vs the time/money it takes doesn’t equal. Just because your company overcame a challenge doesn’t mean that bs and doesn’t exist for other companies.
See you in togc and icc friend!
And I’m telling you from real world experiences that you are 100% wrong here. I know for a fact that myself and one other person could implement most if not all of what I posted in 6 months.
A seasoned IT professional will have the paradigm of their system figured out in 30 days and start scripting and testing another 30-60 after that. This is not hard. Blizzard just doesn’t want to do it.
At this point it’s pretty obvious the answer is “won’t”.
Ideally, yes, we’d live in a world where botting and selling gold isn’t feasible with Blizzard chucking resources at the problem until it went away. But the reality is that they either can’t or won’t dedicate the resources to do so. So what’s the next best solution and what’s the actual difference between buying it from Pedro in Argentina or buying it from Killgore from Whitemane?
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Nope. Only ran Uld to kill Alg once. I quit in P1 cus the game was bad, now w the tokens in I won’t be touching icc
You realize that not every real world example is the same. I have my own real world examples that didn’t not work out as well as yours. I’m glad you are good at your job and able to implement things quickly and efficiently to solve you companies issues. But since we have no idea how things are setup for blizzard. And they most likely have spaghetti code. Saying something is easy to implement in the development world is a dangerous game.
I’ll see you there friend!
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From a technology and IT perspective, they are. 24 years in tech have taught me that. Anyone saying otherwise is blowing smoke.
I’ve never seen a project fail with the right people, budget, and time table. And the stuff Blizzard needs to do and script isn’t like setting up a VM host linked to a Horizon VDI from scratch, which can also be spun up with relative ease if you’re not doing custom scripting links.
Blizzard is like every other company anymore, they don’t want to pay for real IT professionals. It’s why I left IT after 24 years, last year. Companies would rather perform hand wringing and say it’s too complicated than put the staff in place to solve the problem. Then whine about how their new IT based over seas is having problems with it, when the professionals with experience are RIGHT THERE.
Anyway, keep simping for Blizzard. Let me know what Bobby’s boots taste like.
Again those are your experiences and there are many many experiences that are vastly different. Just because you had good experiences doesn’t mean that everyone if giving the right circumstances will. Saying that is asinine. You can call me a simp all you want. But in the REAL WORLD, not everything works out like you want or intended. Especially in terms of business regardless of what career perspective.
Games are in almost everyone’s head. Most newspapers have a whole section just to tell us about games. There are whole magazines that do nothing but talk about sports. There are several tv channels that do nothing but talk about and get you to watch other people playing all sorts of games. This is the game we play and we care about it less than most people care about games they never played or currently play. Just watching people play their games is more in their head than it’s in our head and we actually go play the game. Any so called obsession we have with the game we play is normal
What was the first straw?
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Basically.
Many future quiters at this point are waiting on Cata details really.
Is it coming?
If yes, what is coming in it?
Cata…has many features the purists say killed wow. What are we getting from the “wow killers” feature wise. I personally will need many of its “wow killing” features the purists go on about.
That will decide, imo, how large the exodus will be.
tokens? yeah it seems to be a jumping market. Some aren’t quitting. they are buying. I even got a second token to give my horde a healthier bank account.
Its for vendor crap. Like skills on the leveler I have started to use JJ bonus for. The 80 paladin was feeling lonely lol. And I don’t want to take away leveling time to have that paladin farm gold for hours. I’d rather jsut go kill me 100 bears for 10 livers at this time. That…pays like butt in the 30’s.
In my experience it’s more widespread than that. At least two dozen have admitted it to me.
And that’s the key. “Admitted”
I know for a fact that every raid logger I played with in Vanilla Classic bought gold. There’s ZERO chance they were able to use 4-6 flasks a week without doing it since we never saw them on their B-net account.
And none of them were smart enough or clever enough with technology to be botting on other accounts.
2 admitted that they bought gold from another guildie who was mage farming Mara darn near 24/7. That guy apparently made enough to quit his freaking job doing it.
For years some people, despite all the evidence to the contrary, had blind faith that blizzard would do something about gold buying/selling. Now with the token their illusions and even the last of their fool’s hope have been destroyed. It’s hard when people are forced to look at their delusions and face the facts that have been apparent to most of us years ago. That’s where all the anger comes from.