Day 4 Blizzard completely scored on bots. Will Microsoft react or are you the same as the previous owners?

[Gelion-gehennas]

Blackrock Spire, Silithus, Felwood and other locations are completely in bots.

Maybe it’s time to ban you or have you realized that they bring you a lot of money?

[Draghonis-drakthul]

A lot of money is severe understatement. They bring huge loads of money.

[Saneko-ragnaros (Saneko)]

If you’ve reported them or not, they will be dealt with in banwaves. This may rollout over several weeks and then they’re back again.

The money bit is already debunked as they use fraudulent or stolen CC’s which upon chargeback costs the merchant fees in addition to the retrieved funds.

For example in another F2P game Valorant & League this is explained in more detail why it is so difficult:

/dev: Vanguard x LoL

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:

Banwaves Are Smart

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.

@Kaivax

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.

Unfortunately, in the history of WoW, the people perpetrating this illicit trade have also never been better at coming up with new methods, schemes, farms, and exploits to work around our efforts. As much engineering and analytics effort as we put into this, illicit RMT “workshops” put the same amount in, or more, and there are hundreds, if not thousands of these workshops out there all working around the clock to develop new technologies and techniques to counter our new technologies and techniques. It’s an arms race, and it never, ever ends.

We will never completely beat “bots” or illicit RMT. It’s an unwinnable war as long as there is money to be made by third parties. The ubiquitous nature of this type of thing in online games is an objective fact. It has always been a part of WoW, and every other popular online game for the past 25 years, and it will always be a part of online games going forward. It’s frustrating to fight this fight, but we will not stop fighting it.

While we can’t completely “win” the war, what we can do is mitigate the impact it has on the game. Is WoW Token the be-all and end-all to solve this? No, but it is a tool. It’s just one tool, though, among many. There is clearly a demand for gold for certain types of players, and that demand is only increasing. So, we are engaging a tool that we’ve used before to help mitigate the impact that illicit RMT has on the game. The more tools we employ, and the less lucrative we can make it for third parties to do what they do to make a profit, the less likely it is that new malicious actors enter the illicit RMT scene, and the more likely that existing malicious actors will exit the business. Ultimately, it’s taking incremental steps and using a multitude of tools that will reduce how impactful those third parties will be in Wrath Classic and beyond.

Source.

[Annaia-aszune]

As usual bunch of green nonsense based random guy youtube that was booted from game dev. Gg

[Черница-flamegor]

@Gelion-gehennas

Blackrock Spire

Damn that sounds like some modern corporate HQ skyscraper name these days, now doesn’t it?

[Gelion-gehennas]

up for blizzard… UP UP UP!

[Fadetoback-kazzak]

You do understand that the only reason bots exist is profit for the people who run them right? So if it wasn’t profitable there would be no bots. So the reason there are thousands of bots means that they either aren’t getting banned or are getting banned after they turn profitable, so they just keep pushing more and more bots. Blizzard is doing horrible / no work to fix the bot issue.