Maybe you need to watch this https://youtube.com/shorts/cADaFm__ApQ?si=sbPO_-lVEF4dnPEF
Still doesnāt change the fact theyāre bloody useless. Gold sellers make huge profits in between those long ban waves, theyāre back after a day.
Well done? If Blizzard wants to be effective against bots theyād want to make it such that it isnāt lucrative to begin with.
They need to make it so that we donāt have them at all. I am not a coder so I have no idea how they can do that, but that is not my job.
To say, well we ban them every few months in waves is not good enough. Bots are destroying the game and it appears to be ever prevalent. It needs to be stopped, not just trimmed every few months until they come back again.
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If they were useless they wouldnāt do them at all.
Itās literally more of a PR than anything else, because they literally have ZERO impact on gold sellersā¦ just the odd player caught.
It has a huge impact on gold sellers because it doesnāt just impact the sellers but the buyers. What do you think happens to the sellers when their buyers make mass complaints and refunds all at once because they got banned? 
The waves destroy their infrastructure, and customer base, flood them with complaints/refunds and they learn nothing about how it happens so they canāt react in the future.
Youāre just talking out your posterior at this pointā¦ gold sellers arenāt going to refund because thatās the risk the buyer took to buy gold. Meanwhile gold seller bots are back a day later after them useless ban waves.
Whooptidoo!
That video I shared was from a former Blizzard developer he goes into it in more detail. Thatās just a short from his channel and he was in charge of bans.
Instead of accusing others of talking out of their posterior do your research.
You are living under a rock if you really believe that. If botting is getting harder to achieve then why is it so rampant? I know botting has been a thing since Vanilla, but its become more of a plague than ever before.
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Bots will always exist because they are cheap to set up, and the profit margins are huge depending on your region. Itās not about eliminating bots permanently which is impossible but making their job as hard as possible by implementing methods which rob them of their income I.e the WoW Token and making sure that you are able to disrupt them enough to where they might give up because itās not worth it. You will never have a solution outside of Bobby Kotickās hitman which can stop them permanently.
Literally still doesnāt change the fact theyāre next to useless in tackling gold seller botsā¦ but whatever. Months of inaction between ban waves do nothing to impact gold sellers when theyāve made all their money in between them. So their current accounts got banned? Great, the money they made for each account they could replace it with a hundred moreā¦ /go blizz!
If they didnāt do what they have done, the issue would be far worse. This is like saying the flu vaccine is useless because you still have the flu. What this is meant to to is strengthen the integrity of the game so when the next wave of bots happens, itās not overwhelmed. Itās about keeping bots manageable, and when they get too much, you do a ban wave. Blizzard will have their internal data and metrics on this. They have been running the game for 20 years, and itās their only franchise worth anything.
lolā¦ botting is getting worse. Literally anywhere I go Iām seeing trains gathering or power farming in spots. Yet to see them in Emerald Dream though so I suppose thereās that! 
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You perceive it worse because the botting issue has become more well-known as the game ages. People are just more aware of the issue. We donāt know if itās gotten worse, and if it has become a threat to the integrity of the game, blizzard will stop that immediately because the only thing funding their studio is wow.
This is like people saying the world is more violent because you are shown more violence on social media and the news, but all crime is at a historic low.
Dude, a lot of mats are going on the threshold of being just above vendor priceā¦ theyāve killed the economy for gathered mats via nodes.
Wish I could say the same for some mats like Strider Sinew, thatās still expensive, but ehā¦
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Yeah, the professional market always suffers because the supply outstrips the demand. That will always happen.
I am, I AH off consumables [foods, potions and phials]. Bots are great for buyers, not so much for sellersā¦
Anyways, Iām off ā still got to wrap up the presents. Merry Xmas 
Sorry, Iām at a Christmas party in Orlando right now will rewrite stuff if I get distracted.
This will never change, and as bots exist, this will always happen. You can complain. People have been doing it for 20 years and will do it for as long as online gaming exists unless companies develop some weird revolutionary technology. All we can do is understand Blizzardās strategy and why itās the most effective and move on.
Iām cynical on most of these issues because if it was easy or possible it wouldnāt be an issue because people and companies have better places to spend their time and money on.
Bots must go.
But weāve also gotten to the point where Iām nervous myself when Iām out farmingā¦
Now if there is someone who thinks Iām a bot and reports me, because I donāt think they go through the complaints, but just ban me, and then I have to bother with convincing blizzard that Iām not a bot. but just benn farming hehe
imagine if the blues were the ones that had to control these areas. 100% action taken #FaithInTheBlues