I don’t know a single person who bots. None of you are botting and it’s not because you’re all honorable gamers.
It’s because you know bots get banned, but this whiny community engages in bandwagon hyperbole at every turn.
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Every single guild I’ve been in there’s people buying gold.
Blizzard gave up long ago. Nothing you do will change it. Nothing that can be endorsed publicly at least.
That goes for any gold traded that doesn’t come directly from an NPC. It’s pretty naive to think that a large portion of GDKP gold comes from RMT when you can spend 1500g on the AH, craft some things, then turn it in to 10000g with a quick turnaround. Gold is not hard to get if you put in some very basic effort.
This has inspired me to write a sad story about a gold bot that is having trouble selling his gold. It’ll be similar to the pursuit of happiness.
so you dont queue bgs and you never enter sholazar? got it
go fly to botanica graveyard and watch it for 2 minutes, there is an endless stream of bots rezzing and flying in
There’s a difference between accepting reality vs seeing nothing wrong with it.
What does that have to do with what I said?
Cant tell if troll or sheldon
Edit in case you are actually serious, I see that you play on bene too. People cant even make new chars on here for months now. I think if bot accounts got banned with the regularity you are suggesting, there wouldn’t still be endless hordes of them in the places i mentioned above
Yes, as part of a symbiotic relationship between 3rd world bot operations and blizzard. Commercial operation pays blizzard for accounts, they run the accounts for some set amount of time, offload gold, and sell it to players, before the account is banned.
They then take some of that money earned from RMT, and buy replacement accounts. Repeating the process for as long as ROI>expense.
Blizzard has a financial incentive to allow this to continue, and a negative financial incentive to aggressively ban them to the point that they can’t profit with their bots. The people who hate bots, will continue paying their subs, the bots will keep paying for theirs. It’s win win for blizzard.
Realistically, Blizzard is about to lose a LOT of subscriptions VERY soon. Not because of RDF, but because of China no longer having the ability to have WoW there.
They won’t get rid of bots (They can’t fully eliminate them anyway) because they still pay a subscription fee, and since China has been the leading population of WoW players for years (if not since Vanilla) they’re about to take a HUGE hit, which means they need all the subscriptions they can get.
bought gold comes from bots/farmers farming it. So all gold comes from legit means.
Circling back…alot of the money used in GDKPs to purchase items …one way or another was gained from swiping a credit card.
“Alot” is undefined — no one can know for sure.
The fact that it comes from bots literally makes it illegitimate.
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This is sad but true.
I can only hope good videos like this one from popular Youtubers (like WillE) will put the spotlight on just how absurd bots have become - taking over entire parts of the game, like BGs and Dungeons.
What’s even more sad is, bots are one of the reasons I quit Wrath Classic. But because they link all WoW game versions into a single WoW sub, I can’t even vote with my money. Even though I only play Era now, I’m still indirectly funding the bots.
They get my money regardless, even if I refuse to play Wrath Of The Bot King.
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Nothing morally wrong with buying gold. TOS makes it bannable but that doesn’t make it wrong.
it is kinda sad when private servers can deal with bots better than blizzard
hello there.
Let me guess, it’s not morally wrong to cheat at a game, as long as you don’t get caught?
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Exactly.
Syllogism:
Cheating is immoral.
Buying gold is cheating.
Buying gold is immoral.
Nobody likes a snitch
What’s wrong with buying gold?