Our streams/videos/pictures of
bots, advertisments for boosting, and that dude in stormwind shouting about some cosino which i assume is equivalent to online gambleing?
They straight up are spamming whispers now for boosting…
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For starters, report the offending chats and bots.
And it would be the hacks team.
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You don’t send anything to Blizzard. Blizzard will not use any external data in any reported account action. They only look at internal data and logs, external data is easily fabricated and would not be relevant for any investigation.
For account reports, you will want to submit the appropriate category as chat offenses get looked at in far closer to real time, unlike botting/etc which would go flag an account to be looked at by the Hacks team, and most actions would occur during ban waves.
When you “report” chat it actually sends the chat log for the GM to review, you do not need to send anything else, and nothing else will be looked at.
Yes you do. Please stop responding to people’s questions if you have zero idea what you’re talking about.
You send your videos here Hacks@Blizzard.com
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Blizzard will not take account actions on another player based on media that is pathetically easy to manipulate. Any actions will be taken on internal data., believe what you want though.
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Imagine if Blizz just had a handful of GMs in-game? They could clean things up in a few days.
Why would you help blizzard when they can’t even help themselves?
You would think so, but us players really underestimate just how large the problem is.
With something like what, a hundred servers, multiple shards/layers, countless instances, and a multi-billion dollar botting and RMT industry, Blizzard is outmanned, outgunned, and outspent.
They need to work smarter, not harder, to stop botting. Hiring Human GMs to police the game world would be a really inefficient use of their resources compared with how many bots they’d actually stop.
It sucks, I know.
No they won’t. They will however look at the media and check the logs of what occurred and make their decision based off their data alone.
I reported some YouTube videos someone put out showing themselves botting to the hacks email.
I figure, of course they won’t do any actions based on a video (too easy to fake), but they may check the logs of that player character and take action based off what they find in their own investigation. And if it was faked, they’d determine that as well.
Oh right let me believe you over the actual people who PUT THEIR email out there so that you can send them videos of hackers and bots…
LOL you are delusional holy hell people today in 2025
I remember when Casinos were briefly legal in Cataclysm.
and the deathroll spam.
Why do you do this? Why do you use insults against other players just because you think they are wrong about something? Because it sure doesn’t help your argument.
He’s not wrong. They will not take action based on screenshots or video.
It is correct that blizzard will not ban anyone over evidence sent by players.
However, the video may cause them to investigate the person in question more closely and ban them over internal data they have.
Which is 1000% better than their algorithm bans.
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im not doin jack. i don’t play the game to snuff out these incessant bots n hacks lmao. they need people to get to work on it themselves or pay me then ill do it lol.
Don’t waste your time. Best to ignore and move on.
I posted a link to a video I recorded some months back on these forums of a particular bot trying to get my black lotus. The first post got flagged so I posted again. And wouldn’t you know it, that bot was gone just a few days after.
I don’t think this forum is where you’re supposed to post it but it couldn’t hurt. I’d actually like to see these forums being constantly flooded with recorded videos of bot activities. Brings attention to the problem and forces Blizzard’s hand.
Probably not based on media alone, but they’d be foolish to not investigate further based on media which suggests ToS violations. And I do believe this is the case. Case and point: Greekwario ban. The nitwit intentionally live streamed himself buying gold.
RMT is definitely not a multi-billion dollar industry. Multi-million more like. And maybe not even a million if you’re just talking about WoW.
So Blizzard, the multi-billion dollar company, cannot defeat RMT, the multi-million dollar industry.
While yes, you could send something to hacks group, mostly it’s not needed, unless you have identified some new hack thats being used, then I do agree they would definitely want more information about it so there a video would be highly advantageous. However outside of that I found I have had pretty good luck getting bots banned simply by describing their behavior in my reports. It does help that I am on a PvP server, so I kill them a few times to demonstrate them performing the described botlike actions.
However botters aside, the original poster was wanting to report chat offenses, specifically a gold sellers spamming ads, and for this emailing the hacks group instead of reporting them through the correct channel will likely delay or reduce the chance action will be taken. If you send something to the hacks group, they wont look at it as they do not processes chat infractions GMS do, so at best your hoping that when they get around to looking at that email, then cutting a ticket to the correct team, delaying it being looked at, it also makes it more difficult to find the correct player account since it wont be properly tagged by the system on submission, and when the GMs get the ticket they wont’ have all the relevant chat logs.
For chat infractions, the easiest and fastest way to do this is simply to right click and report, this actually sends the offending chat directly to the correct team making it easier for them to action the account, they also seem to work much closer to real time versus the hacks team which likely has a much longer tail, and which works more around periodic ban waves.
Either way, it’s good to report all botters, and those advertising for them in chat.