I guess my stance on that issue stems from the fact that I grow tired of seeing Blizzard constantly avoiding responsibility regarding glaring issues in a game that is monthly paied for on top of being fully re bought every two years.
It is a bit easy to let game breaking bugs rum rampant, let people ruin the game with them, and then just ban a handful as example because they dared use bugs that were not fixed in a timely manner. Act, and prevent the ongoing abuses rather than wait, and frown upon people who used them because they were given the time to.
Still, I am not defending these practises and am heavily against them. Just in case it’s not clear. I’d simply like to see a part of the blame go towards Blizzard sometimes instead of trying to shift everything on the players, because they do have a part of it imo.
Should. Exploiting is a bannable offense and people who use this macro do it with clear malicious intent, knowing very well what they are doing.
While the fault lies within blizzard that they allowed it to happen, I believe biggest issue with blizzard is that they can’t just start punishing people properly instead of treating them like little kids.
I mean it’s not different from some dupe glitch that would give you infinite money. But here blizz will ban immidiately because it hurts their own income.
If blizz would just perma people for exploiting bugs right away, people would be thinking twice before doing so. And im sure it’s easy to prove whether they were exploiting or not, since blizzard has access to all inputs from the player.
And same for macro, I’m pretty sure its easy to figure out whether somebody used this macro for testing once in a duel or was using it every arena match.
blizzard is the only one at blame, people who break their set rules are handled according what their rules dictate related the offense but the one who own this product and are responsible of it is blizzard and they have been enabling all of it
the day i see blizzard starting take faster and more efficient measures on bot scripting or rmt in anything involved acc/char selling ill tip a fedora to them finally doing whats right but i imagine they would also cut big part of wow pvp playerbase simultaneously
It would must probably be an exploit or bug. There is a reason why this macro only works with target and not with focus / arena. The reason is Blizzard blocked the APIs to not allow such macros to even work and most probably them not limiting target is a bug. They most probably just missed it?
Them missing one possible targeting mechanic for a macro does not mean it’s working as intended and not a bug. You as a user of such a macro most probably know that this is a bug and Blizzard meant to block it if everything else is blocked.
You might not be 100% sure, but in the back of your head there must have been at least a single thought like “Is this working like it should? Why would they block everything else and not this single one? They probably forgot about it. This might be a bug.”.
I find this funny that this macro interaction can actually exist, lol.
Also, they should not punish anyone for using this “exploit”, and “fix” it accordingly, as the devs never said that this was not intended.
Also, they don’t always fix problems that need aid or in time.
As the game usually is " Working as intended" - wowpedia fandom
You mean the irony with the “working as intended” meme?
There were some people who went around killing people with a macro instantly in main-cities. Would you say thats intended because it worked and they said nothing about it beforehand?
People have used buffs from torghast to one shot raid bosses. Would you say thats intended because they never said anything about it?
The entire “Working as intended” is a huge meme with blizz.
Anyone can understand a macro that gamebreaking for PvP is def not intended (which blizz have proven now), and the people who used it and abused it should be punished accordingly. They are just too lazy with actually doing it.
That macro was fixed since they made it “protected” again. I have no clue why it wasnt though.
They cant do anything about the past no, but what they can do is look who abused it, remove their achievements/rating/rewards while using it and its not that difficult for them to do that even. They are just lazy.
Like I said, anyone with a tiny understanding of PvP knows that was a sure bug/exploit/not working as intended at all. They still did and thats it. If it was intended, you would know it would have spread quite strongly amongst the PvP community and been “mandatory” to have.
If theres no punishment, as usual, then you will know even more people will start abusing and exploiting. They need to make an example for people to see. Not silence.
The problem comes down to human nature, sure, you could punish it, but people will still exploit it (except if they have the personality trait or culture to report it)
But ye, this could make it seem that they let exploits a good thing until they are found out.
Its quite obvious when things are exploits and not.
If you dont set examples out of ppl who do it, they will continue doing it and MORE people will actively try to find them and do it.
Punish the ppl exploiting = Less ppl will do it and less ppl will search for ways to do it since they know they can get punished for it.
Dont punish the ppl exploiting = More people will search for ways to exploit and actively do it since they know all they get is a slap on the wrist as a “bad boy” if even that.
You either welcome ppl to do it or you scare ppl to not do it.
