Botting situation is getting ridiculous

WoW Classic Wrath of the Lich King Classic Discussion
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Hi everyone, i know there are several posts already talking about botting but I want anyway to open this ticket because it’s the first time I see something like this.
It’s Thursday 08/12/2022 and I’ve passed the last hour (2 am to 3 am) at Sholazar Basin chasing bots.
I’ve reported 8. Guess how many people I chased? 9. How do I know they were botting? Well, we all know how botting routines look like but we can say that after 10 minutes of following and whispering without receiving any target or reply is already a response isn’t it?

Now… dear Blizzard, don’t you think that the situation is getting a bit absurd considering ALL you have to do is log a pg and do what I just did?
I also have a clip where basically 2 bots are doing the exact same route with the exact same movements and I could have taken loads.
Why is it that hard for you Blizzard to understand that this is ruining the game, the economy and the expercience of the 99% of the players that want to play the game as it supposed to be played?
This is embarassing.

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True.
Once I flew to nexus and i saw about 8 bots grinding next to each other.
Bot companies do not even care anymore if they get catch openworld.
I was about to report them but I did not.

We cannot win this war.
Blizzard has to legalize it so no shady company will be able to make profit from goldconsumers.

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Whenever I’m out in the world late at night, seemingly by myself, I often lose myself in my thoughts… life’s mysteries and everything I have experienced and life. I think about how impactful some of these experiences have been to the person I am today.

I have fond memories of this game from my younger years when everything was fresh and exciting, and countless of my real life friends played. And we all played together.
Now, I am one of the last ones remaining. It’s been many years, really…
We grew up and grew apart. Life just had different things in store for us, and a couple of us didn’t make it at all.

So, nostalgia-drunk, I wander these familiar paths in the night, on my own now, with a lump in my throat, as I hear the wonderful soundtracks to Dun Morogh, The Barrens or even Desolace ring out, when I spot another player running around.
Gleefully, I /salute this strange looking human wearing a level 30ish leather cap that makes him look… well, I suppose you could say he looks a little “slow”… which is why I do not immediately take it personally when he ignores my little interaction with him.
“Hello friend! Wanna group up for this quest?”, I ask him. No reply. I feel a bit bad with my next move, but I throw him an unsolicited [invite], but that, too, fades away, as he ignores it.

So I observe him in silence for a couple of minutes and realise that this isn’t the friend that I subconsciously have been praying to find. A fellow man driven with a crippling addiction to the feeling of nostalgia, melancholy and even sadness. After all, isn’t feeling something better than feeling nothing at all?
But I digress…

No, not only is this not my new friend, my saviour. It isn’t even a player. It’s a robot. A soulless drone programmed to farm the world for the profit of someone who doesn’t care about fellow man and the wonderful companionship that many of us have forged. The brotherhood making us laugh and cry, through thick and thin… NOTHING MATTERS TO THIS ROBOT AND ITS MASTER!
Well… nothing except for gold, purple items and the destruction that its ultimate master, Greed, brings.

So, I simply walk on… alone, yes. But not defeated. I hold my head high and dream that Blizzard some day will step into the role as the “friend” that I, and indeed many others, have been seeking… longing for, for a very long time now.
Ack… I’m getting ahead of myself here, my apologies…

But, my friends! Listen to me… I managed to simply move on without doing anything other than reporting this unsettling bot disguised as a human in a just as unsettling leather cap. I did this because I still have hope.
My friends… we can lose a lot in life and miss out on many things that we desire. But the only way you can lose everything is if you lose hope!

A wise man once said that he could sum up his lesson about life in three words: “It goes on”.
And to supplement to those powerful words, I say to you, dear reader: “Never give up”.

Thank you for reading.

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People on this forum tent to ignore post like this, I dont know if its because they are incompetent to acually see when there is a bot doing wierd stuff like “following waypoints” that are really easy to see by just follow them for less then 5 minutes so they dont see the whole problem with it, bots destroy the economy but I dont think ppl care becuase the bots probably fuel their gold for their GDKP runs.

I dont know what it is really but we need a change, sooner rather then later (Too late really due to it been a problem since classic launched).

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At this point in time these threads are little more than a circle jerk. They had some meaning first months of Classic, but by now it must be clear to everyone that Blizzard just don’t care. A bot’s sub is as good as yours. In fact it is better, since a bot can be banned ever 6 months or so in a “ban wave”, only to recreate the account immediately for another juicy 13 eur.
You can’t complain about something for 3 years with 0 reaction and not realize you are being ignored and snubbed with an amused grin on the listeners face. Keep crying and paying. Don’t forget to buy 12 month sub for a shiny. And a store mount.

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Can’t imagine what it’s like to be employed as an anti cheat/bot specialist and then the ceo comes out with the current iteration of DK creation that allows bots to skip 100 hours of grinding mobs without having to pay for a boost

One benefit of these locked megaservers is that we barely see any dk bots on them. I’m sure they are around, but none of these “suicide” dk bots we see in battlegrounds at least

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Bots rarely operate in the open world, they specifically farm instances. That’s why you get the feeling there are not many bots around.

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I fully understand this, but just at a glance there are significantly less here. Checking /who and comparing between firemaw and earthshaker at these hours, there’s a huge difference. At least 5x as many, with way more obvious bots on earthshaker with the typical bot names in “guilds” with broken english just to deter inexperienced people from reporting

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What a pitiful person, I feel sorry for you. Embarrassing post

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13 euro is juicy? Lmao it’s pocket change

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yeh but 13 euro times the thousands of bots. aint pocket change

the issue you will have is this. 1 blizzard wont care because on paper its a subscription. lets say across all realms its 250k bots.

thats whats 3.2 million euro. just from botting accounts. you ban all them. some shareholders who most likely never play wow and have not a single understanding of it are going to ask why their share of profits are down.

and 2. i honestly 100% believe that most bot accounts arent actually buisnesses now but people like the average player who raid and plays daily but has a 2nd pc set up on another account with whatever bot program happens to be useable at the time. and they farm with said bot while they sleep/ work / school /college and use it as a second income. whats the cost of gold i have no clue lets say its 20 euro for x amount. and you can farm 20 euro worth a day/night. i mean thats a player point. you also have to take into account theres places like equador where currently wow gold per hour is currently worth more than the currency to work per hour in the country.

honestly i dont know what the solution is. its completely out of hand, and the report system doesnt work half the time

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Botter spotted lmao

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Gathering bots are your herbing competition and it is understandable that they are ruining the game for you and your profits.
Thing is they are not ruining the game for herb buyers (crafters), in fact they are keeping the herb prices low due to supply they provide and consequently for raiders keeping consumable prices low. They are even welcome for big chunk of players.

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Before the war, I’d routinely get ads on Russian social media to be a bot overseer for well above average salay. All you need is a pc, some very rudimentary IT skills and “we teach you the rest”.

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farm dk bots bg man it real mean it ez win but still lol it real

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Indeed, no war can be won without an army.
Blizzard fired its “army” (GMs) ten years ago so you’re right, there’s no way they can win vs bots nowadays.
The solution isn`t to legalize botting, it’s to HIRE GMs.
But that won’t happen because Blizz is a poor third world company.

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Come on Blizzard you know you want that. Just put in a botting interface in your game store and nobody will ever complain since it now will become part of the game. (Seriously though I would not put it beyond them)

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why not player GM’s. i have a good amount of free time on my hands as do many many others. get verified players who know what to look for. let people report them and let the player GM’s look into it.

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To be honest it is not about me and even though it seems so, it was not a “crying post” because I can’t get any ore/herb because of bots.
Bots are quite stupid so you can easily overcome them in terms of farming.
My point was about the fact that they can bot easy without Blizzard giving a s**t about it. Like what game company act like that for people that “hack” on their game lmao

The solution could be easy, from hiring some GMs to legalize bots and put it as a paid service (last one would even remove the problem of Blizzard not getting money from people botting I guess).

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I dont think any solution is needed.
Bots are paying subs, players like low prices on mats, it is mostly win-win.
Sure, someone will always be unhappy, but noone can make everyone be happy all the time.