There is an extremely obvious bot running around in Swamp of Sorrows on Pyrewood village. It’s picking all the valuable herbs there, and currently has 21 stacks of Blindweed on the AH at around 60% of market price, and is basically tanking the prices.
I’ve followed this bot around for 40minutes on a few days ago, picking all the herbs it was trying to take, and this also made it very clear with its behaviour that its a bot. I’ve involved another player to also observe this and also report the bot.
This bot is still running around untouched, and has now continued to bring down prices by means of botting, after repeated reports, so as mentioned this is obviously in accordance with the terms of use or whatever.
Go ahead, google it and try. You’ll be banned within minutes. You need to have a contract to share some of you ill-gotten gains with Activision to bot in this baby.
Blizzard did not even bother dissallowing buying gold in the EULA.
They are banning bots, no question about that. But obviously their goal is to ban as few accounts as possible no matter what they do. It’s a calculation for them and not about integrity.
Meanwhile -reality- at this hour:
https ://imgur.com/a/R9tjB16
Everyday… Hundreds of them… Just brd got like 120+ bots 7/24. Imagine rest of the game world.
No need to be a blind fanboi dude. Everyday there are hundreds of posts here about bots, hacks, rmt, multiboxes etc.
Actiblizzion doesnt need your FALSE advertising.
This is our problem and our beloved game is in its worst state of 16 years in case of bots…
Oh I feel you. I gave up on herbalism despite it being my favourite profession, because on the servers I wanted to play on, bots just farm all the valuable herbs, leaving very little for the actual players to collect. On the bright side, I now have a free profession slot.
There are spots in game where you’re almost guaranteed to find bots at any time. Nagas and harpies in Feralas come to mind.
Then again, some of them don’t even try to find a secluded spot. They just set up shop in busy questing areas.
Not to worried about getting caught I guess .
But because the is no permaban for gold buying, the game will always be a loop of boting => gold selling => gold buying for mage boosts / gdkp (to buy loot)
Even if the botter get banned eventually, the profits offset the cost and they just start new accounts to continue botting.
If you ban gold sellers then there would be no gold buyers either.
Also I’m pretty sure there are quite a few players with bots using the gold for their personal use instead of selling or buying.
Personally I don’t have a problem with casual gold buyers even tho I’m farming my eyes out in DME as we speak.
It’s like hey, you don’t have the time I have, alright if you buy a bit of gold for pressing needs it’s okay, I don’t mind.
And if you sell gold, I don’t mind it either at least if you do it casually and not using bots.
Also, bots might be frustrating but they play just a small role here.
It seems most raid runs are only gbids runs, and everything even a useless crap must come with the “standard” 50g bid…
This “meta” is toxic af as it creates the “uber” need for gold, gold that many will be effectively forced to buy. And if you already have it you’ll be under the “omg he is a gold buyer” stamp…
Bottom line, I think the community is more to blame than Blizzard.
And this is always the scenario for this type of game in modern gaming times, unfortunately.
Yes, it seems cheaper to run a bot to get gold for your own use than buying the gold.
No, it can only be the company behind the game that is to blame. They clearly refuse to deal with the issue what so ever. If the police in my country had the funds that blizzard has, i would also blame them for everything.
It’s blizzards fault for not banning the players in the community who are breaking the TOS and buys gold for IRL cash.
I don’t see how you can point fingers at players who participate in this since they know nothing will be done against them.
I hope they will do a gold wipe and boe item wipe going into TBC. Soulbound items only, that way we can atleast delay the economy from doing a backflip into a noose since blizzard wont do anything against the botters ruining the game.
sidenote If they don’t do any wipes then I hope they atleast reset the accounts to the state they were prior to classic vanilla for those who broke the TOS. They deserve no more than that after wasting their stimulus checks on a video game currency.
What is most ironic here, is that bots keep prices of herbs at reasonable level for players who need a lot of consumables for Naxx and cant afford to farm themselves.
You, as herb farmer, would bring prices thru the roof if no bots (competiton), so you are average-player enemy, not bots.
In game world, with very limited resources and huge demand, bots are very welcome, however strange that might sound.
We have in game currency to do whatever we like with it as long we don’t sell it for irl “stuff”.
So how posibily Blizzard can know if for example I give to some friend 1k gold or if I sell it to him?
Or maybe I donate 20k gold to some stranger from the goodness of my heart. How can anyone prove anything?
I keep hearing the word “enforce” but how?!
Imagine like having a limit of 1k gold of transactions per day, or for Blizzard to ask you details about every gold you own.
I don’t know, something like that is what you want?
Apart from large gold transcantions investigations idk what Blizzard can really do.
And banning bots won’t stop the gold buying, it will just be more expensive to do so.
Look at the Chinese. They pump money in games like there is no tommorow. They don’t even play a game if they can’t spend money in it.
The rest of the world is just catching up.
Imposing absurd restrictions or ban half of the player base is not realistic.
So that leaves us with “legal gold buying” as Tokens to be the single solution. And everybody wins. Blizzard and buyers and oh…wait…
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