Why are there so many advertisement bots just in and around orgrimmar? I take my time to report most of them and yet I still see no improvement. I used to get the mail which told me that people had received sanctions for this behavior but there’s nothing anymore. It feels like Blizzard are actively encouraging people to advertise and artificially inflate player count just by not taking action towards these accounts. They’re all levels 1 to 10 with starter gear on, stood in Orgrimmar doing nothing, or Dracthyr with 0 achievement points, stood in front of the auction house mail box crafting for hours on end. Please stop this madness.
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They do take action however the bots in question will detect this and then continue it on another hacked/fraudulent account and ad infinitum the cycle goes.
I’ve seen the same named advertiser with different apostrophes return for weeks at end when I returned for a little bit during TBC for example after I reported them so action is definitely taken.
Blizzard have the power to IP ban people, and they should do that. If places like twitter can recognize accounts being made by the same people then why can’t blizzard?
Im sick to death of this player inflation, advertising in support services for new players, and the constant random bots just stood around cities. I report literally every bot I see and nothing EVER gets done. I used to get the mail to tell me action had been taken but nothing anymore. It’s so boring.
And the reason they don’t just like many other game services is because players can share IP’s like universities, group homes or simply have dynamic assigned IP’s etc.
If you have any new suggestions you’re free to give it through the ingame suggestion button but Blizzard will not take feedback through the Support forums.
As well as sharing IPs - they are also trivally easy to fake with the right skills (something the hackers who steam the accounts that are often sued by bots) have in abundance.
If this was an easy problem to solve it would not be the issue it is for the vast majority of large online games.
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Ever heard of Spoofing? They can’t ban mac addresses either as that would ban a machine that someone else might use to play. Banning credit cards won’t work, neither would banning whole battle.net accounts.
There is no way to be sure you are banning the right people so they only ban the Warcraft account and usually far too late as the damage is already done.
Blizzard could easily ban bots but don’t seem to have the resources to do it quickly or widely. Recent ban waves just go to prove that, 120k bots banned is just a drop in the ocean and these people are back on new accounts in days.