Due to the latest news regarding MadskillzzHC quitting his efforts to make the game we all love better because of blizzards constant lack of action against botting and gold buying/selling every comment here should be a respectful call to action for blizzard to make drastic changes to handle the bot and gold buying/selling problem.
this is unacceptable that it has gotten to a point that a member of our community has been receiving death threats because he has taken it on himself to do what blizzard has not taken meaningful action against.
please show your support here for Madskillzzhc in a RESPECTFUL way. We ALL call for change in a kind way and not resort to the methods that were taken against madskillzzHC. blizzard MUST make a change but do not harass or intimidate their community managers to get change. that isnt the way to do it.
Blizzard do somethingâŚ
If you dont know who he is - https://www.youtube.com/@Madskillzzhc
Thank you.
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I do not think it is okay for blizzard to ignore this. I know they canât stop botters from being mean to people or threatening them but they can stop botters from botting, which is what they should do, and their lack of action has resulted in their players REAL LIFE safety being compromised.
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Agreed i think as a community we need to be firm with our call for blizzard to make a serious change and put in effort to fix the botting issue. firm but respectful.
Call it for what it is, a lack of effort to maintain the game we pay our subs for. i dont however want to call for people to harass community managers or employees of blizzard as this is a upper level decision to take minimal to no action.
they could simply monitor the mail transactions of all confirmed bots and ban all players receiving gold from those bots as well as banning the bot accounts themselves. just banning the bots is not enough⌠and even if it was there are many bots that get reported and only few get banned.
No more automated systems. we need real action.
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I think more people should follow his lead and use the tactics heâs shown us to continue the work.
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I agree.
They cannot target all of us, and have no way of getting our info.
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This sadly isnât an isolated incident as I know people who have been threatened by the gold farmers, though not on HC.
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SOO SCUMMY that Blizzard is not doing something about this!!! AAA at its finest!
Botting, Boosting, ratings selling and premades in PvP, gold farming, its all connected. Why Blizzard does not start banning the cheaters I will never know.
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until blizzard gets hit with legal action for supporting these criminals , they wont
to be clear BLIZZARD SUPPORTS these criminals. A single GM could solve this issue in a month.
You just keep banning them. Its simple. You dont use algos, you use humans. Blizzard should be liable.
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This is like saying that the US government foes not know how to shut down the Mexican cartel and their drug distribution. There are employees at Blizzard that provide â umbrellaâ for bot runners and even they themselves are running bots. They know the system, they know how to take advantage of it. Do you expect them to report themselves ?
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This is literally how cartel states work.
1 - Cartel causes lots of problem.
2 - Government knows, but are making money off it so donât do anything.
3 - Average people try to do something about it.
4 - Average people are threatened/killed for it.
5 - Government doesnât help them for aforementioned reason.
6 - Average people have to deal with the problems and fear trying to fix them.
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I get that people want to blame the bots. Like most of you I wish they were not apart of the game. But they exist because people buy gold. The players that buy gold should be the target far more than the bots. I believe there are some really easy ways to remove players buying gold that are somewhat controversial like the GDKP ban. Trading gold between accounts would be the fastest and easiest way to attack the problem, anything over say 100g should be flagged internally. If this is the path chosen capping the gold cost of items on the AH would also further attack the problem. I get that some things are rare and people want to make money from this and that some people enjoy playing the AH, but I believe it is just as big a part of the problem as gold buying and would provide too easy a way to circumvent the gold trading caps.
Still as I mentioned, following addressing gold trading and removing players that buy gold will solve the problem quicker and easier than targeting bots, who have over time become more sophisticated and hide in dungeons eventually. You have to remember that people buying gold are the stupid ones, and would be far easier to target, they are ruining the game for themselves and the larger community. (Used to use a Hex editor in old DOS games, after you did this the game lost almost all interest for me, this is what happens when you cheat.)
TLDR target players doing silly things buying gold, address the root cause of the bots. IF no one buys gold there will be no bots. (I still support targeting bots, but if this really is too hard for blizzard, then address the root cause.)
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Disagree. He was griefâing some players simply because they didnât speak English. This is against the ToS, not to mention racist.
Thank you Blizzard for suspending this griefer!
In retail PvP forums whenever you mention anything about RMT ratings sales, win trading in shuffle brackets by manipulating the queue system to create premades to farm random players PUGs, rotation and interrupt bots. Or basically any of those things, they mass report your post and its always removed⌠Meaning even the forums take the side of the cheaters.
3rd party boosting websites rake in the cash, and have âfriendsâ in the right places.
I fully understand how Blizzardâs anti-bot measures are a long-term solution over a short-term, but in light of the âbot-mafiaâ threatening players of the game with death⌠Blizzard needs to step in.
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The people at Blizzard who make those types of decisions care more about bots and gold buyers than âregular playersâ.
Thatâs the reality.
No Bliz is protecting regular players that got killed by this griefer. This griefer (âmadâ) was killing regular players. He wasnât right in his judgment sometimes.
I actually watched a few of his video and heâs killing 100% obvious bots. He calls out their scripts before they even happen.
Imagine if Blizz actually hired GMs to ban these bots so players donât have to do this, and then get death threats?
Something is going to be done about botters. I promise. And, itâs not from Blizzard. Plans are being made, as we speak. You all should hear something in the next week or two.
If you have an Asian sounding pet name it is on sight. Especially if it is a hunter or class that is known to be utilized by bots. It is a reality that most people who utilize RMT, and bots to the determent of the community are from Asia and by Asia I mean (China, Indo, Russia, Taiwan, and India), hell the Chinese culture actively encourages cheating. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGvxvX2nKpg&t=319s) It isnât racist - its a reality for online gaming that everyone has had to deal with from MMOs like WoW to Shooter looters like Tarkov.
madskillzz inspired me to start playing HC and I have every plan to do exactly what he did - kill bots grief or not.
I got to 60 twice on defias, ill do it again on the fresh servers and kill bots in his name.