Seriously Blizz we’re all tired of this garbage, the bots ruin the game economy entirely - and you “Ban wave” often enough to let bots farm about 30 new copies of shadowlands in the week (Thats an understatement) it takes you to get around to doing something about an account
You seem to be enabling it at this point, so what is it? Does it boost your sales as a company to allow these bots to run around and buy more copies of the game?? You can say more people bought shadowlands because you have armies of bots farming more copies for your stockholders? Please do enlighten us as to why you can’t manage to place 2-4 gms on each server as a multi-million dollar corporation for the sake of maintaining the game actively?
I would like a serious, genuine response about what your excuse is for this bull, as your response to this matter has been nothing but lazy and automatic, like the bots.
And before we go over this, as it stands i can farm about 30-40 heavy callous hide alone / hr -without instant respawn mobs, running around ardenweald - At 1200g / Heavy callous and nothing else, this makes me 36,000g / hr assuming i’m on the lower end of this
As your tokens are 110k(ish) atm, it would be safe to say i can farm a token in around 3.5hrs
So when you have bots, farming faster due to hyperspawns, able to make tokens (3 tokens is a new copy btw), they can make how many copies of the game? Do you revoke the gifts sent from the accounts you ban or do you just ban the account?
PLEASE DO EXPLAIN.
ahh yes, those were the times.
I remember making a ticket in classic in EPL about a guy that was stood in the same spot for 3 days, figured it was a bot fishing.
(this next part may shock new players to SL)
Got a response in about 15-20 minutes (not 1-2 days)
And a man wearing a blue and black robe showed up to my location, we had a small chat, I watched him with my eyeballs teleport this player 20 yards away from the pool, and he would run back start fishing again. He did it a few more times than just, poof the guy was gone, GM said problem was solved and thanked me for my time.
Botting is a continuous battle, and Blizz more often bans in waves than every singular bot that pops up.
When one botting option gets shut down, people come up with a new way. Banning in waves ensures more people are caught before the new botting experience is rotated to.
you can’t ban them too quickly… you have to let it be financially viable for those doing it for a while, that way they can justify buying a brand new copy of the game(x20) rather than just renewing a $15 sub fee(x20).
When the delay of banning is enabling further Free botting it makes the act of banning rather redundant.
Playing whack-a-mole and making sure they never get the chance to create 40-account farming empires would be significantly better than seeing someone clearly coming back on the same bot you just had banned under a different name to be in the same spot for another 4-5 days
I Insist that this would be a far better method than the system that has been failing us for over 5 years
Fun fact
Most ongoing botters are INCREDIBLY visible at this exact moment in time and take under 2 minutes to confirm if they’re a bot or a legitimate player
Such things as autotargeting / following mobs on a slight delay as you pull them away, clearly automated looping pathing / backpedalling when stuck scenarios (at least 10 in the past week i’ve been able to get stuck in walls, others will automatedly go back a pace, then left for 1 sec, then forward, then back, then right for 2 sec, then forward, then back, then left for 4 sec, then forward.
Automation is automation and it’s very hard to not be able to tell the difference between a robot and a functioning human being, the human being will move organically around an obstacle, these are not.
I’m sorry but my eyeballs have found me about 15 bots this week just on that grounds alone and they’re still floating around.
Do they need to put on sunglasses and hold a cane to prove they’re playing blind?
Yes. That is literally the absolute least this company could do for us. 800 * minimum wage or slightly above pales in comparison to the actual worth of blizzavision.
I would assume the answer is evidence. A cop can look at someone and see them smoking (tobacco) and drinking and think “hm, they look young” but he can’t arrest them he has to get evidence, probably in the form of ID.
I’m guessing Blizz does something similar “looks like they are botting” but they can’t ban them, they have to get evidence
So they could have a GM port these players behind a wall and see what the reaction is and gauge accordingly? An active GM with the ability to manipulate a player would be easily able to prove this much more in depth than a blood dk farming hides dragging mobs on top of suspiciously moving players dont you think?
Anyone who plays this game well and has an ounce of creativity is death for bots without special IT privileges so i honestly want to know why they can’t do what they’re “Working on actively” more securely than their players
Probably isn’t enough for them, I imagine they look for software identifiers to see if they are using some program to control the characters. If I got ported somewhere randomly I don’t know how I’d react lol, I’d probably start by checking my map to see where I was, then going into Discord and telling everyone what happened and complaining about it
So you wouldnt go into an automated method of pathfinding and start running into the wall repeatedly? Sounds like a sure-fire way to prove you’re not a bot
Edit: Oh right i forgot some of them hearth after running at the wall for more than 30 sec
So there’s a huge problem with this assumption
The people buying bots sure as hell don’t know how to build or edit them,
And once again - automation will ALWAYS be automation, it might get more refined, but it will in fact be an automatic, defineable loop with set parameters as it is in fact a computer program that functions off of set parameters.
This is immutable, bots are not omnipotent gods that can spontaneously blend in, they’re just full of dirty tricks that are easy to see past if you wish to look for genuine automation.
It would be safe to say you wouldnt be backing up in regimented, organized manners designed to blindly maneuver an obstruction (1 back 2 left 2 forward 1 back 4 right 2 forward 1 back 6 left 2 forward)
Its not like they’d be twirling about frantically wondering what happened
Y’all seriously out here acting like the bots are run by OpenAI and i’m losing my mind at how oblivious this entire thread is at the actual functions of how a bot works
