What bots/hacks are allowed?

[Bladewise-herod]

ESPECIALLY if they sell gold for real money.

Heck they’ve been sending me so many friendly in game mails I’m even thinking about buying a few thousand gold!

[Venomclawz-benediction]

Thank you, I see a lot in starting areas in classic and report them constantly. Sometimes I get feedback and other times I don’t. I don’t need feedback to know bots are being watched and dealt with. It’s not too hard to see when they are automated.

[Bladewise-herod]

Yea but it sure is hard for a multibilliondollarcompany to hire someone to ban them so bot away!

[Bladewise-herod]

@Danarigg-kromcrush

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.

all of this.

[Bankofqq-faerlina]

@kaivax

Our anti-cheat team takes action against botters and hackers 24/7, and every time I’ve asked them “how many botters were actioned yesterday?”, the number is always in the thousands. That’s a global number, by the way.

How are you guys dealing with false positives then since you are banning in such huge amounts? Kritheo#1686 has been playing wow since vanilla beta (2004). His rogue is fully geared. He doesn’t have much gold. He did not trade anyone gold. He was just trying to level his fishing to 300, and he got suspended for 6 months. Customer service said it has been reviewed, and it will not be overturned. Would you please relook at your algorithm to ensure that these things will not happen often?

[Darolant-sargeras]

There are no GM’s or people with power in the forums. Appealing here leads no where. But I am sorry the likelihood he was using some sort of bot is high and just does not want to admit it. Even if it was just to level fishing.

[Profits-mankrik]

I’ve seen the same hunter in the same spot farming the same mobs for like two weeks now; every time I /who the zone, he’s there. If I run around him he doesn’t pay any attention to me, doesn’t respond to emotes, doesn’t respond to chat or whispers…I’ve right-click reported him for cheating->botting at least five or six times but nothing has happened.

Nice job blizz, some volunteers working in their free time handled bots better than you

[Bladewise-herod]

I finally got my bot banned. You wanna know how? You’ll laugh. I put in a petition as “I want a refund” and explained in excruciating detail again why this was clearly a bot and why I want my money back for this month of service because I’m being denied the ability to farm due to Blizzards inaction.

A DAY later (I didn’t have results even a week later with the report bot function) I had a response from a human AND a ban… In a day… Turns out all you have to do is tell them you want your money back… Also turns out all they had to do was have a PERSON look at the report.

This company is a joke.

[Degno-grobbulus]

I highly doubt thousands are banned a day. I’ve seen bots run from 1-60 then spend weeks running dire maul for money. I’ve just resulted to camping them or if they’re on my faction you can /duel them right after they loot and usually they’ll accept it and you can take their health down and then allow mobs to kill them. At this point, I’ve just taken matters into my own hands to camp them in my spare time.

[Degno-grobbulus]

If you duel him right after he loots he’ll probably accept it and you can take his health down as he attacks a mob and the mob will kill him. I usually do this to bots on my faction until they have broken gear and have to go back to repair.

[Meltem-benediction]

Don’t even need to pay people imo. I don’t believe for a second that blizzard would have any problems finding ample volunteers willing to commit 5-10 hours per month to GM on a server where they have no characters, in exchange for a free month. Heck, an in game title or cosmetic bonus like a pet, outfit etc would be enough for some.

[Frozenshot-grobbulus]

Why Is It Bad To Buy Gold I am a rogue if I go to the level 70 blizzard server I will not get a raid spot If I am a rogue because a guild will not Invite a rogue to the raid The rogue Does not do Good dps In the raid So I should be allowed to buy gold so then I can go to a raid and buy the gear with gold this game is pay to win I do not Want to Waste Time In a Pay To Win Game Blizzard should not ban me If I Buy Gold On A level 70 server Because A rogue Will Not Get A Raid Spot In The Level 70 Server So then the rogue has to buy gold to get gear from the raid So If you are a rogue then you should be allowed to buy gold on a level 70 server Because You Will not Get a raid spot in The level 70 server If you are a rogue You Will not get invited to any raid If you are a rogue if you are a raid leader will you invite a warrior to the raid or will you invite a rogue to the raid you will invite the warrior to the raid the warrior will do more dps in the raid than the rogue I have to buy gold because the raid leader will not invite a rogue to the raid I am a rogue you are a dog I will farm you in this game

[Awokenpeon-earthfury]

Take your meds

[Notglinda-pagle]

I AM DRAGONDOOM THE ROUGE!

I NINJA UR RAID SPOT ELEVENTY!