Simply put, why are auction house bots permitted by Blizzard? Other than the obvious monetary gain.
I accidentally put an auction up for 1g99s instead of 199g. I seen my error before I actually hit create auction, and in less than half a second I hit cancel, but somehow someone bought out the item in this insanely short period of time.
I put in a ticket and a GM informed me that such action is legal but it involves manual input by the player in order to buy the item and that it cannot be automated, unfortunately though I find it virtually impossible that someone manually bought my item. I know myself that nearly anything can be automated, even if it isn’t using any in-game method to do so.
Bots are so common as it is, when will it end or be addressed? Will we ever get active GMs back on realms? I reckon in 5-10 years time, there will be no staff employed at Blizzard, only AI making robotic/logical decisions on the game.
