That is absolutely incorrect but given your other statements I don’t expect different. The bots/cheaters are doing it in the open for any GM to see. There is no investigation needed, they are cheating for anyone to see.
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Since when can mages, or anyone for that matter, teleport directly to herbs?
I must have missed that ability when I trained.
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Or, you know, the cop just refuses to leave the station and takes tips from “citizens.”
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LOL yeah, funding for sure. Too bad the security in this “gated neighborhood” who rake in billions of dollars a year are unable to police their own game.
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Are WoW packets encrypted at all? With the fly hacks I want to say no. Would it drastically increase latency to do so?
As long as the bots aren’t hacking their way into your raid IDs and stealing your boss drops, or hacking into arena and one shotting people randomly, I’m not sure why you would suddenly be unable to enjoy the game as a result of them being here.
BG botting could be a massive problem though. Could see that ruining your game experience if 50%+ of the people in BGs are bots.
There is much more to the game than raiding that people do. They are monopolizing lotus spawns by cheating, warping to various herbalism nodes, and botting quest spots by camping lucrative mobs so no one can get them for their quests. Oh did I mention crashing markets by using teleport hacks in zones.
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It wouldn’t be a thing if enough players were not paying for gold. Obviously it seems to be very profitable at the moment even a year later. Somebodies are buying it.
TBC won’t be any different, at least initially.
Egg Mafia…heh.
Really? You’re not? Then let’s all just fly hack! Why not?
Ive actually reported someone for potential botting and 2 days later received an email thanking me for identifying a botter and action had taken place.
So I play the game and just watch and right click when I see something obvious I don’t mid being a deputy, because everyone knows the Sherriff gets shot usually
You actually misread the post. IP Theft servers had smaller player bases, and thus had far fewer people trying to hack them.
It is like back in the 90s, when people talked about PC vs. Mac, and everyone would bring up the fact that there weren’t nearly the number of viruses and other malware for Macs as there were for PCs. What they didn’t mention was the fact that there wasn’t anything inherently superior in Mac’s code that kept there from being viruses, but that there were so few Macs compared to PCs that the people writing viruses couldn’t bring themselves to care enough to write viruses for Macs.
In IP Theft servers, you had a small playerbase, which reduced the scale of work to secure servers dramatically, while also dramatically reducing the incentive for people to hack those servers. There simply wasn’t enough money involved in a server reaching maybe 10k max, compared to Classic, where there are millions of players, all of whom might be persuaded to buy gold. Of course, the fact that IP Theft servers sometimes just outright sold gold directly further decreased the impetus to bot and hack.
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Maybe so maybe not. They certainly weren’t a billion dollar corporation. They were made up of volunteers and people who loved the game.
If a few volunteers can keep a server of 8k players bot and exploit free, then just stop excusing Blizzard for this unmitigated mess.
Being too small and uninteresting for people to bother hacking does not mean that they kept the server bot and exploit free. It means that they weren’t worth the time when there were more profitable places to hack.
Oh they were worth the time. Every fresh server began with RMT spam and bots. If you’d actually played on one you would know this.
The private servers posted the names of the people who bought gold on their websites and banned them. Pretty big deterrent. They also had eyes in the game 24/7 so exploiters were banned on the spot.
It’s unbelievable that people excuse Blizzard for this inexcusable state.
So 8k - 10k servers free of bots and hacks on private servers. Not because there wasn’t an interest, but because the GM’s took care of it. You can make up whatever excuse you like for Blizzard’s incompetence, there still isn’t one.
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