You don’t want to ban the bots, you need the bots to buy more accounts. Now when they lock their accounts they reroll the next 5 bots into the system. Excellent change.
I see you guys. Respect the hustle.
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Goes to show you where their real priorities are. I just wish they were honest about it. They could easily make a post saying, “We don’t care, get over it or unsub. The cheaters have more accounts than the rest of you folks anyway.” Honesty is respectable. Hypocrisy is not.
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False. This directly patches exploitative boosting and gold farming, bots and non-bots included. Also impacts multi-box factories.
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not even slightly true but ok…
False… ackwalllyyyy. It drives up demand on gold and account selling. Which, you guessed it. Equals more subs.
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No. It doesn’t. It just sets a limit for that but you can still exploit it by switching to another account as the original OP said.
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Drain gets it. Thanks fam.
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The idea is that it makes botting less profitable, thus less desirable. It costs more money to have more accounts to circumvent the 30 instance limit. Is it the best and most efficient change? No, but it’s something that benefits everyone except the players mass-farming dungeons to print gold and cause inflation, which I don’t have much sympathy for.
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I mean you see logically how that doesnt add up right. Righteous orbs, arcane crystals and herbs go up in price now. Gold buyers still buy gold to counter rising prices. Thus driving the botting demand to increase. The demand for gold didnt go anywhere. So botters now being locked on those accounts, who mind you. Usually have multiple accounts just turn those ones off and turn on new ones. Come to think of it that makes it harder to find bots now. Because they will be only for 6-7 hours a day instead of 18 while rotating accounts. I’m just using dungeon bots as an example. BOTs run rampant in any leather skinning area.
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How can you say this with a straight face?
Have you never seen The Office?
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Since the lockout is on a per realm basis, bots can play 24/7 by just dividing their play time between 4 realms, nothing much changed for them.
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Imagine thinking Blizz is going to do anything beyond the bare minimum for a 15 year old game with SL, D4 and OW2 on the way.
They’re going to do both. It’s a combined attack on botters.
Yeah why bother doing the bare minimum to actually fix a game that tens of thousands of people are paying subs for. Most MMOs can’t even get a sub and they’re FTP model. Classic is probably more popular than many modern MMOs. Blizz is just being lazy and doing what will get them short-term cash rather than the right thing for the game as usual.
So this is how it works with the new lockout system.
24 hours per day = 1 sub
6 hours per day = 24/6= 4 subs
And if anyone doesn’t know, these botters make Argentinian accounts with 6 months of game time for $15 USD equiv. This has been known through most top guilds who need second accounts to mind control for WCB (as an example).
These botting companies make way more than what they are spending on having these accounts active.
They can just make bots on multiple servers and run an account 24/7 by swapping servers.
They wont, they will just make more botting accounts on the higher pop realms since they obviously have more business there.
And there’s what, at least 5-10 really high pop servers (faerlina, sulfuras, herod, whitemane, fairbanks, benediction, arugal)? Sounds like it works great if you run an account on a few of those servers.
Yeah, they will literally run 4 accounts on each of those realms you listed. that way you can get 120 resets on each account still. its more profitable for them to do 120 runs over doing 30 runs then switching realms.
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