In less than 24 hours of launch, there are already a stream of bots on every server migrating from Era over to HC and when I went to go whisper these suspected bots to see if they were real or not, they send me an automated message on where to get HC gold from.
This should not be allowed, and botting is a massive plague in Classic especially due to the rampant nature of gold buying/GDKPs/etc.
On Wrath when WoW Tokens released, the botting population died down significantly.
I believe that there should be a WoW Token for HC to curb the botting and gold buying before it’s too late, and I think it would be great to introduce it ASAP before the botting spreads.
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I mean it is called hardcore. Remove gold and only allow a bartering system.
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Welcome back Garmuck! Its been far too long. Though there have been plenty of others starting terrible topics in your stead.
Someone is always around to pick up where you left off.
Tell the wife hi. 
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Their bots will die at like level 10 who cares.
Bots do not work in HC unless using hacks.
Normal bots will just die over and over.
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They have a more refined leveling system then most players. If anything more bots will make it to max level than players.
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Nope they’ll just farm safe mobs till 60.
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It doesn’t work like that. They can pull extra mobs and die.
Why would they pull extra mobs?
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Because it’s easy to do by mistake. They are bots.
They don’t make mistakes, that’s why it’s a bot.
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Bots die all the time man
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Yeah but not in HC, the ones I found just farm in safe green zones for their level and can do it all day and night and mail gold/items back while moving to the next zone.
While you’re asleep, they can bang out levels and items.
WoW Token is the only thing that can fight it.
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Nah they will die or get griefed. It’s super easy to grief a bot on HC.
Doesn’t matter, bots will still generate tons of gold and illegal value to the economy.
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This is what I had hoped for all along… we can trade anything except gold. Gold can not be traded or mailed. That would have been amazing.
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Does this guy not play on retail? Wrath classic? This is just pure bait.
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It’s $5 per gold right now. Who in the world is buying gold this early into Hardcore?
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Who cares it doesn’t change the game at all I don’t like bots either but it really doesn’t change the experience
I don’t believe this to be true.
Anyone logged in for more than N hours consecutively should warrant a review. Or maybe they have multiple types of checks that flag them for review. Enough of those and they’re done. This is a something the dev team should be able to address and I hope they do it quickly.
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