Been a player since the inception of WoW, stopped playing after Legion, rejoined for first Classic and played through to WOTLK which was great.
Rejoined again recently, and I’ve bailed after one month. Bots and boosts have overrun this once-great world, gamed the economy, and anything besides end game content feels mostly lifeless. Finding groups is hard work (especially as an Oceanic player) and it’s in no small part due to bots farming and selling gold, and those same people paying their bought gold back for boosts.
Unfortunately Blizzard seems to be taking an absolute lack of serious action to protect the experience of actual players. Hardly surprising, as whether their income is coming from players who enjoy the game, or yet another bot account, hardly matters to them. Brainstorming some logical methods of killing boosting would surely be a quick and straightforward exercise. Bots are likely harder to tackle; fair enough. Some sort of data filtering system to identify accounts earning and transacting large amounts of gold to strangers?
Yep, same old stuff. You’ve heard it all before, I’m sure. Just adding to the pile. Don’t think I’ll be back again.
Cheers to the actually alive guildies who made it remotely worth continuing for the month!
