Auction House Bots

Hello. When you invest in a profession, you demand profit. It’s natural. But when someone constantly undercuts you, you realize something is wrong. So you keep continue but they come with 5 more accounts. And they make you forfeit. These are not people who plays this game, these are actual botters. Ofcourse gold=money for them so it’s some kinda job for them. I have been reporting those people since Shadowlands. They are mostly hanging in Stranglethorn Valley Booty Bay Auctioneer O’reely, Shrine(Ally/horde) in Pandaria. 30 achievment points , weird symbols in their nicks or old multiboxers with 1-7k achievment mostly with no transmog at all. Their main characters are hanging in Garrison Hall in Draenor to not get reported.

Ofcourse I made a ticket and response is:
’'Botting in online gaming is not an easy topic and never was an easy one to talk about. While Customer Service team can only deal with reports of cheating players sent through the in-game reporting features by other players, I can assure you, our developers do what is humanly possible to devise new scripts that would actively seek out players using botting services.

It might be hard to notice this from the other side as for every account closed for botting, new ones can be created almost immediately. It all boils down to the demand… if our players would stop purchasing gold and services from botters, botters would not be able to continue this trend for much longer.’’

Customer Service has reponded very kindly but those bots were here maybe even before Shadowlands but I have countered much more bots in Shadowlands than in any other expansions.

I have reported huge amount of them and they actually get banned. I’m making a collection from Blizzard '‘thank you’'s in my mail. But I can’t stay in Booty Bay/Shrine and track those hackers all day. They must have gatherers>crafters>sellers>gold accounts. They are operating in every realm and they are not making people sell anything. Blizzard should execute a ban wave.

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Thank you for your service!
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Which costumes were you having problems with?

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Auction house definitely needs a rework.

At the moment it is a Player controlled economic system. However, I do think a little more influence from Blizz wouldn’t go a miss.

I have no problem with it being a case of ‘the more time you put into it, the more money you make’. But in some circumstances, the only way to make money is to constantly cancel and relist auctions.

But, yes, botting should definitely be looked into. Likewise, there should never be 1 single player who has complete monopoly on a single market (and yes, I have been on a server like that).

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They don’t let you sell even if you stay 7/24. I have all legendary crafts. When I start putting my items , he starts a loop with 14 characters.It ends when his items at the top. If I start putting something, bots are getting activated. It’s a medium populated realm so I have lowered everything half of what it was. Bots go nonstop. They get 2-3k profit but they will probably realize it at the end of day. I mean it’s ridiculous.

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Ban wave doesn’t do anything, blizz is right on one thing:

and these accounts are usually basic ones, where you only need to pay subscription. What blizz needs to do is to ban the actual botters and take away all their ill-gotten gains that are usually kept in a gbank.

What i don’t understand is why blizzard keeps using the same strategy they’ve been using the last 15 years that has a proven 100% failure rate.

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