Bots, mafias, mass reports

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I’ve now been reporting the same bots for over a month… /who deadwind pass, see a guildless hunter there? Yeah you’re 99% sure thats a bot. How they even level 1-60 and manage to farm for months despite countless reports is beyond me.

*deleted names of the bots as it may be monkaTOS… I’m sadly not immune to bans since i’m not botting or a part of the mafia!

Find your celebrity at Deadwind pass any time on any day of the week with their best friend Boar.

Reality is, go to any place in the game and you got bots leveling, farming, flyhacking, teleporting. And yall said you increased the black lotus spawn rate…?

From 2023, source

“We hear folks say things like “just ban the bots” a lot. We ban tens of thousands of bots a week. It’s not visible to you just how much we do, and that is absolutely another problem in itself; we need to be better at surfacing these actions (more on this later). The truth is we’ve never been better and more effective at identifying and actioning malicious accounts, and our Game Security Operations (GSO) team that handle these actions are iterating and innovating on a nearly daily basis.”

Did you get better? Did you get better at surfacing these actions? Is this what innovating on a nearly daily basis for 640 days looks like, on anniversary servers with GDKP banned?

Will we see any bots banned before GTA 6 release? I heard the mafia discord mass reports are succesfully banning more actual players than blizzard bans bots.
Is that the solution? Massive player discords mass reporting bots? Seems to be working just fine for these derps and with no consequence at all!
Try to undercut boosting prices: YOU’RE BANNED SIR.
Start botting: YOU’RE GOOD, SIR, no ban for you our most valuable customer sir, sir.

With the amount of bots it MUST be good business! Should’ve exploited the SOD boons for ez thousands of gold, should’ve botted so I didn’t have to level or farm any gold at all. So many mistakes! Exploit early and exploit often, it doesn’t pay off to be a good boi!

oh, and start banning the gold buyers! Buying gold is clearly with no consequence too, sigh, but then again you would lose subscriptions, right. Damn what wouldn’t the investors say, they want sub numbers up up up and never down!

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As far as I know “Naming and shaming” is not allowed, if you want your message to reach people, you should consider removing their names. I do agree with many of your points. though.

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Idk how can they charge a monthly 13€ when the game is infested with cheaters literally in EVERY zone and also abusing the report system. I mean its so ironic how hard Blizzard claims that they fight against the cheaters, but instead the cheaters get you banned for: leveling in the wrong zone, “stealing” mobs from the bot, advertising boosts for a cheaper price, “stealing” nodes, killing the cheaters in pvp, undercutting in AH and threatening anyone with mass reports in whisper. Customer service is literally non existent or in the best case scenario you get the “We are sorry…anyway…” template message from an actual human .I doubt any other company with a required subscription would get away with this attitude and behavior.

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Because we the WoW Players are the most loyal and most addicted fan base a company can wish for. If players would quit instead of just crying blizz would be forced to react.

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It would actually work better without Blizz reporting system at least the “mafia” would have to keep to botting and couldnt take control over stuff players do by mass reporting them…

If a bot is supposed to be GM then its better with no GM at all if an indie company cant hire a GM for such small server as Spineshatter.

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Yea you are right, wow players are addicted. I pay my monthly sub from wow token so I could be part of this problem too, but if there was no token option I wouldnt pay the sub because its not worth it