So I recently got my self the spy addon, just to keep track of wpvp kills for fun…
But some of these bots have been here for multiple days now. I report them, others report them.
Yet they are still here, everyday. Herbing. No ban. even after a full week.
I see the same thing in Battlegrounds and now I wonder.
Do Blizzard really WANT bots in their game so badly?
The last nights it was near impossible to pick herbs in zones Felwood + Blasted Lands due to the number of bots running around.
If you kill the Horde bots. They’ll just bring in alliance bots.
Blizzard should return to using INGAME gamemasters, like we had in real classic. this could heavily assist in bot prevention. It would seem they now know how to cheat your algorithm.
I observe multiple of them being online for like 1 hour at a time, then logging off for a bit, then coming back.
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If you ban them instantly, they will be re-generated instantly too as the botters will see their bots vanish until they eventually get through. We’ve seen this in the past too.
Typically banwaves are done which may take anywhere from several days to several weeks. Then they come back sometime again. Cat and mouse game mhm.
For example in another F2P game Valorant & League this is explained in more detail why it is so difficult:
The botting problem is prevalant in all games/MMO’s, not just WoW. If there was a solution there would be one by now.
An ex-dev that worked at Blizz:
You may suggest any methods you may think of through the ingame feedback box but it is not likely that it will be groundbreaking new suggestion.
Source.
1 game master costs Activision 100k dollars a year, this is 100k dollars a year that could instead be paid to a CEO as bonuses.
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shilling as usual. your wall of text isnt fooling anyone.
and op youre 5 years later with this post 
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it’s all minced words, when in reality you have no incentive to ban bots.
We don’t believe any of these blue posts anymore, when the bots we’ve been flagging constantly are still roaming around and laugh in our faces.
It’s shameful how the only company that has a subscription fee on top of an in-game store can’t ban 90% of all bots constantly.
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Saneko is probably a bot owner. Copy pasting same text under every bot-related topic. And yes, blizz dont care. Same bots running in felwood since phase 3
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I wonder how many people would still play wow if they couldn’t swipe their cards for cheap gold/raid boots from gold sellers/bots
I know people that bought gold the second wow was real released 20 years ago basically
It’s been around since the start although I think it was real players to begin with befor they could program effective bots, not sure when the first bot appeared hmmmm?)
Banning a large proportion of bots would kill the game maybe? think blizz would be too worried about this, too many players are happily buying gold regularly
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Shameful shilling, makes you look more and more daft each time you copy paste this.
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Wrong. This game is pay to play, not free to play. If you keep banning them instantly, they’ll stop paying for their subscriptions. But if botters stop buying subs, Blizzard will lose hundreds of thousands of subscriptions. People don’t realize how huge the profits from botting are for both sides.
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The same chinese primitive point to click bots are back to Hinterlands and Scarlet with the same primitive pattern and the cope about mysterious blizzard plan to not to spoof their secret anti-bot technology is still here.
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i’ve seen the same bots running in azshara for months now , it’s ridiculous how bad the botting situation is.
glad i made my golds in a low pop server before joining living flame cuz the economy is giga cursed
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Even better system would be to ban the buyers instead. The botters would eventually disappear 
Dont ask me how you make such a system. Im just a bricklayer, but i have faith in software engineers brains or W/E thats needed for the job to be done.
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Agreed. Especially with today’s machine learning tech it’s never been easier to detect botting.
“cant ban bots couse they will instantly comeback,so instead banning them in banwaves every few months and they still instantly comeback” blahblah blah what a load of crap.What about detecting all the 9999 hunters using exact same pathing or them doing weird coordinate jumps/fly/glitching thru walls ,I guess technology isnt here yet xD spy addon registered over 100 bots in just 5mins standing outside BRD portal,its not sad,its pathetic by this point
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complain all you want, in the end you’re still here playing the game of the creators you mistrust so deeply. You’re free to leave any time. Talk is just talk
“just make your own WoW”
and alot of people actually do 
Short answer: blizzard ban bots like twice a year. Between those botters are free to bot and rmt. System is mostly automated as hiring people requires money investment. Its is very dumb low effort anti bot system that uses a mixture of “bot reports” analysis and some internal anti bot checks.
And ignore that green text - it has nothing common with reality
He is not completely wrong in saying that Blizzard cant really stop the bots.
The main reason ? They dont want to invest the funds into fighting them. Its all automated, max cost cutting but also results in nothing being different.
They do a “mass ban” just before a new patch to try and pretend things are being looked into, plx come back to the game !
Its all bs. Like one of the guys above stated, why pay a GM when the top management can take that cut.
Or you can be on cope, pretend that the poor poor multi billion dollar company cant fight the infinitely smaller botters and be an “MVP” on a dead forum for free so they dont have to hire CM’s.
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Pitty blizz doesn’t have more of a small business type mentality that strives to provide a great product /service.
Everyone has probably uncounted some really great run small business’s where they provide excellent product’s and service’s to their customers, far better than many large companies.
It’s their livelihoods, their own business they have built it up and maintain it, people know them personally.
If something goes wrong they fix it, they get involved and sort things out so the customer is happy.
I think if any these small business owner types ran a game like wow they would put in serious effort to clean things up, they would pull their own sleeves up and be putting the hours in game removing them.
I think only severe fanboys believe blizz have any thoughts about this game other than how much cash they can make rather than produce and maintain a quality product
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