I’ve said this to you before and I’ll say it again: I know you’re just the messenger, so I’m not directing this at you. I know you’re handed a list of things you can and can’t say, things you’re required to post verbatim, etc. You’re just the go-between. So I’m not mad at you.
But that is complete BS and EVERYONE knows it.
The economies of nearly every server.on the planet are BLOWN OUT, bloated with mass botfarmed raw gold and high end materials. Inflation is already getting close to the tipping point where it starts a positive feedback on itself and just goes full Venezuela tier.
We have been desperately trying to tell you that something more needed to be done about botting since Q4 of last year. there are dozens if not hundreds of videos you can find with a simple search on YouTube right now showing legions of bots, in zones from ZF to ZG to Stepped to Winterspring to Silithus, farming up black lotus and groms blood and plague bloom and silver sage and arcane crystals 24/7/365 and generating ridiculous amounts of raw gold while also siphoning gold off of the actual legitimate player base for boosting.
It isn’t just the worst kept secret for classic players. It’s the worst kept secret in all of MMO gaming. This game is infested to its core with botters and you guys don’t lift a finger other than to pay lip service to your supposed commitment to fair and legitimate play. We let private servers get away with this because we understood that they were private servers and didn’t have your resources. We also knew that they were getting a kickback from the gold sellers and it didn’t bother us that much.
You guys don’t have those excuses. You are quite literally a multi-billion dollar company. You could pay three people to review reports for each server and not even really feel it. Three people. On rotating 8-hour shifts. Reviewing reports. That would probably cut botting at minimum in half just by getting a set of eyes that have a pulse attached to them to review the toasters that are being reported. But you guys can’t even bring yourself to do that.
I specifically posted like a year ago that I knew if something wasn’t done about botting quickly and harshly, The server economies would eventually get to the point where inflation was out of control. Not even one year later and here we are.
You guys should be banning bots every Tuesday morning at minimum. And I’m not talking 72 hours that’s a slap on the wrist for them and a giant middle finger for us. Being banned for being confirmed beyond reasonable doubt to be a botter should be a permanent ban for that account. No three strikes, no warning, no wrist slap, no teehee we’re going to punish you but not really BS. Delete ban salt the Earth.
And then for God’s sake go after the websites making the bots! You did it with Glider and you did it with honorbuddy You can do it with these too.