Most effective is banning per hardware ID of the PC so you can’t use given motherboard any more (assuming they aren’t using virtualised system in the cloud but that can be detected as well).
No no, you’re now arguing that a Blizzard employee is not only unable to detect bots with analytical tools, but they also cannot just track players doing botting activities and manually ban them.
You’re saying that Blizzard is incapable of tracking bots, you’re saying that human beings are incapable of detecting bots within the game and you’re saying that a few employees working on a server could not for example just track popular farm spots, confirm it’s a bot and ban them outright.
I alone could wipe out thousands of bots in a single night. And you’re acting like Blizzard could not do this if they had the intention to do it? You’re clutching at straws because you just want to be argumentative.
The ONLY reason Blizzard doesn’t make botting less profitable is because they profit from it too, boosts and subs.
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you have no clue.
didnt say any of this.
Im not im asking you how you would do this. you have no clue about anti botting software and you are just crying and tell people to fix things.
lol are you serious? Mac addresses can be editted on ur network card in windows but also in ur router 
No no, you have no clue. And you’re insinuating all of this with your posts. You’ve set some rules where the anti-botting softare alone has to automate tracking and banning bots without any human interaction.
Completely unnecessary to have a fully automated solution and infact fully automated solutions to customer service and maintaining services is why those two things are so damn bad these days. Blizzard is trying to save money which is why they automate everything now and there is no customer service, by extension that is also why they have a harder time dealing with bots than if they had someone employed to do this job on each server.
But they wouldn’t do that anyway because they don’t want to stop bots, they want to keep bots buying boosts every couple months. You know this is true and you know I’m 100% correct, but you’ve setup your little strawman defense where we play pretend.
Didnt check, I know back in the day there was software for faking MAC
Probably, Im not in touch with latest Windows editions
keep living in your own head. Maybe you should apply for a job at blizzard with your IT knowledge and tell them what they are doing wrong
Blizzard don’t need anyone to tell them what they are doing wrong, they are doing precisely what they mean to do. That is to keep boost/sub fees coming in.
You may be right on the profit one, but what will happen the day there are way more bots than players?
In your mind, do you think that blizz gonna rethink if the classic realms are almost empty of players but full of bots?
If that happens, no runs gdkp bc every player got the best gear, botting stops bc noone is buying gold, and blizz stands whit empty servers an no income.
What you and others on this forum is saying is that blizz is running the “greed before need”
Reset router for 10-15 seconds and you have a new IP. Better too hardware ban their CPU.
Better to just force an authenticator, or make it impossible to play with VPN. Like this, they can identify large botting hotspot/hubs, and ban all at once. The only reason, they aren’t doing it, is in fear of losing subs. I wonder, if some day, one of the investors in the financial reports is experienced enough with games in general to ask, what % of subs are bots, etc.
The opportunity was there when MC decided to enter the scene but they weren’t bothered too ask for numbers. Not only that, Blizzard probally doesn’t even know how to check these correctly… Even Twitter doesn’t even correctly track these numbers (or lies about them).
you are clueless of how it all works and you are just making noise
Sure, and you’re the expert here right? I’m clueless about how it all works by pointing out exactly how it’s all happening. Blizzard isn’t really banning bots at the perfect rate to allow bots to remain profitable and by extension allow Blizzard to continue receiving millions of $ from them, that’s just a happy by-product of Blizzard just not being able to keep up with the bots.
And don’t get me wrong I believe that you believe this, and you will say anything you can to convince yourself you’re right and I’m wrong to protect that belief, but one day you have to wake up in the real world.
Bliz isn’t going to ban bots because:
- They get money from the bots accounts
- They get money from the accounts of people who buy gold and wouldn’t play if they had to farm their own gold
Remember, if no one would buy gold, there wouldn’t be bots
go a bit up in the comments and you can see the my answar to what you say now.
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I think you seriously underestimate the amount of people that buy gold, could be 50% or upwards. There are a lot of people that want to buy gold, or that don’t care other people buy gold and they won’t quit. Just install an addon to block the spam in chat and thats it. A lot of people that play classic have a family now and don’t have the time to farm their gold. It’s easier to spend some cash to get gold and not upset the wife that you are playing again. You might think that a majority of people dislike gold buying but that is just not the case, that is a vocal minority
Some streamers/content creators did polls on Twitter and alike and the % was quite high.
Banning bots is like the war on drugs in the USA.