This is what the game has become
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I mean, developers, other players and MVP’s receive insults and death threaths daily for having a different opinion. It doesn’t come as a surprise to me, it is definitely sad it comes to this though.
In addition, we have to deal with desinformation on a daily basis.
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The truly unfortunate side is that in so many countries, even if you go to the authorities they will often say “Bah, is´t just threats in a video game” and dismiss the issue. So I can totally understand why he would just stop if be believes the threats are serious.
No, it´s what society in general has become.
This is a symptom of a much larger problem that people like myself have been preaching against and actively trying to prevent for literally decades, while the willfully ignorant masses just keep saying “it´s not a problem for me”.
How many years have people been saying never buy gold, never RMT, never this never that, and despite all our warnings “special” individuals just don´t listen… and this is the disgusting flower they personally helped to cultivate 
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This isnt about a difference in opinion though. He is actively messing with their profit margin. I suppose the criminal scum does not take kindly to that.
All because he did blizzards, and to some extend, your job for ya. Shame on yall.
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Its fine, Bl*zzard will protect botters from any harm.
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You are at fault here Blizzard, you failed.
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All because this pathetic loser company gave up battling the gold sellers.
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Actually crazy that Blizz will just ignore this.
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“If i igonore it, it will go away”. Why do you think blizzard removed ability to report bots trough friend list, /who and chat earlier this year? No reports, no problem.
By the way, chinese bots on Stiches are back in full force, they just took one week off for new servers and returned back.
According to bootlickers in this thread, there are no technology to “decetect” bots that were grinding Scarlet for 8 months straight 20h a day and vendoring in Southshore.
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It takes a human 5 seconds of looking at a player to determine if they’re a bot or not, and in the less obvious cases maybe a few minutes.
You could literally just have a gm who spends 30 minutes a day reviewing reports + checking instances and that would solve the issue within days. The bots who do slip past reports and detection will not have a reason to exist because it won’t be economically viable to run the operation anymore so you can expect the surviving ones to leave eventually.
Blizzard’s actions (and lackthereof) are indefensible. I can’t believe the bootlickers unironically think we haven’t yet developed the technology to determine if the guy named Asdfasdf selling 100 stacks of grave moss and on the AH is human or not.
I am really hoping that the gold seller mafia making death threats is going to be the tipping point, but knowing how tone deaf blizz is they will probably just ban Madskillzzhc cause he technically got characters killed.
Our only hope is getting some streamers to make a stink about this but most of the big ones are on Blizzard’s payroll so they’d rather just react to HC death clips #41874781 than use their platform to do anything good for the game.
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That will be $100.000 a year in Californian salary, and twice more in insurance and other bonuses. Why would Microsoft-Activision-Bliizard waste those money and not pay them to CEO instead?
I unironically had hopes that Microsoft will replace blizzard staff with indians.
I know few hunters from Stitches that were killing bots since last year, all of them were banned. Some permanently, some managed to reduce their ban to 6 months.
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Indie company. If you put on stiches who/ hunter Monastery all bots . Blizart 0 actions. Pathetic company
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Ngl don’t see any reason to pay a subscription if Blizzard can’t pay one employee to manually ban bots.
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Unfortunately, there are less people willing to unsub than there are bots paying for sub. This is obviously why blizzard dont care about botting damage.
I think they care, but its better for corpa numbers to show bots as active subscribers or players.
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This is too. Thats the reason why they do banwaves twice a year - to boost “new player” stats (those are bots resubbing) in investor call statistic.
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While I agree that it isn’t difficult to spot bot like behavior, it isn’t enough to throw a ban hammer on someone, based on visual observation. Because technically it is possible to play and mimic that of a bot, and therefore it’s not enough of a cause to ban someone.
The people running these bots always adapt to new changes, and if word got out that Blizzard is suddenly observing these bots in real time, then the botters themselves would change accordingly. Therefore software is used to detect if someone is running a TOS program in the background, while WoW is launched.
I also agree that it is suspicious to see hundreds of stacks on the AH which are posted from the same player, it too isn’t definitive proof that said player is botting.
The level 60 guy named Asdfdas who spends 24 hours a day farming grave moss in SM is not human. The guy farming green mobs for 24 hours a day every day is not human. There is no ambiguity in most of the cases I’ve observed.
There hasn’t been a single human player affected by Madskillzzhc’s many bot kills. ALL of them have been bots, if a random dude can kill hundreds of bots with a false positive rate of 0% then a GM can do even better with all the resources they have at hand. I’m not saying to literally ban people based on a quick glance, just that it’s really easy to tell, and
You are bringing up a non-issue here, sorry. A literal random guy with 0 GM powers was able to not make a single mistake out of hundreds of kills, I am certain a person with GM powers will be able to achieve that too.
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Some people that do Bot, are not on a twenty four hour schedule. Also, as mentioned, botters would change if they were required to do so, and since they haven’t been forced to do so yet, they are exposed to what Madskillz has been doing for months. A GM would not be authorized and given powers to kill of a player character, based on visual observation, nor ban said player on such a basis.
The bot programs today are very sophisticated, to the point that they are capable of playing WoW entirely by themselves. Don’t get me wrong though, I want to see them gone from the game, but it is worth noting that anyone who has ever bought gold in the past, should also be banned if the botters are. The botters exist for one sole purpose, and that is to make real life cash, and that is acquired by regular players buying the gold that the botters acquire.
In other words, the botters ruin the economy through their main incentive to exist in the first place, and that’s because people buy the gold, and as such gold buyers are equally guilty for ruining the economy of each server. Now the interesting question is… how many players would be effected by such a banhammer, and what effects would that have on WoW at large…?
And water is wet. On another note; i´ve yet to see some of the “sophisticated” bots you speak of.
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