All wearing communal boost gear. The ones in Slave Pens are mostly level 69.
The ones in Maraudon are mostly level 58.
And thats just on the horde side of the server Zandalari Tribe. A server where Alliance is dominant.
It’s such a demotivational sight to see bots reach level 70 so soon into TBC. I think many people expected this to happen, but not this soon…which is sad because of how easy it is to distinguish these bots from real players.
Edit: Bots have been banned (got the in-game thank you mail).
2nd edit: New bots have taken their place.
3rd edit: new bots have been banned. way to go blizzard! please keep this up
4th edit: the bots have gone skynet and taken over the World… Of Warcraft. Irreversible damage has already been done to the economy and my active subscription.
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You should report them all to Blizzard and watch as they doing absolutely nothing about them. Those bots are all paid subscriptions and hold the same “rights” as players in their eyes.
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The only way to report the bots is by remaining outside of the dungeon entrances and manually right clicking each of these bots when they exit the instance to reset. That doesn’t seem like something blizzard should expect players to do for them.
With all the gold these bots are printing into the game we soon won’t have to worry about being able to afford epic flying mounts for all our alts later on in the game. Inflation will make 5000g seem like a cheap transaction if this issue is not going to be tackled soon. I doubt i’l still be around when the game is in such a state.
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Blizzard will tackle it soon. The WoW Token is on it’s way.
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Stop these lies! The bot problems have already been solved! Solved, I say!
Solved!!!
Its what u all wanted when u asked for boosts. U were warned it would mean tonnes more bots but u all just went “waaaah I want my instant gwatification just like wetail waaaaah”.
So the bots are here to stay now u boostie boys caused this so suck it up
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The issue here is players buying gold, you can judge the amount of gold-buying going on on a server by the number of bots. If players didn’t buy massive amounts of gold there wouldn’t be any bots (or very few)
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It’s funny because it’s true. The gold farmers would have been licking their lips when Blizzard announced the boosts.
Spend £34.99 on a boostie Mage and they’ll probably make that back selling two or three lots of gold. Everything after that is sheer profit.
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They’ll more than make it back in one sale, the going rate on MR/Horde is £45/1000G atm
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“Bots won’t buy boosts”, they said.
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Yeah but thats BS. If ur a serious botter who runs a bot ring to make gold to sell then ur never gonna have just one account ur gonna have dozens of accounts with different bots on different servers. Each of those accounts are gonna buy a boost so that means maybe 20 bots for each botter all running at once and no need to waste time levelling ur bots when u can just get them farming BRD right away.
Id not be surprised if boost hasn’t cause a thousand new bots to appear in first month alone.
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No different the equivalent amount of “players” offering boosts then selling on the gold earned, which never ever happens of course. At least the bots don’t spam /4 24/7. It’s 60g for 60 mobs in slave pens atm, bargain ! Irony is, back in original tbc it was said botters who were spamming chat 24/7 !
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Everyone called this when they introduced the boost.
Gold on classic is so valueable and the time to successfully let a bot level so high that boosting it is always worth it for gold farmers.
They made this problem themselves.
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Tons of bots have been banned since TBC release. Tons of 58 boosted bots there is. The boost was good, since now Blizzard gets the money and can ban them faster.
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All of this was expected and considering how easy it is to level up to 70 + how long it takes for ban waves to happen, this will be getting only worse and worse. Any gold selling “bot” can farm up the cost of boosting character to 58 in a few days.
It’s win win situation for blizzard as they will be grabbing more and more revenue, however, already ruined economies on certain servers will just become more and more bad.
LvL 58 boost was such a big mistake and it saddens me that it was so easily widely accepted as a “good change”.
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Agreed. If i put my tinfoil hat on, i would even say this is their business model for TBCC. And I am pretty sure there is right now in the finance department managers discussing what is the most profitable between the cycle BBB (boost bot ban) and directly selling Tokens themselves.
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I could also bet it is, nothing else makes sense.
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I don’t have much to say in reply to you except; LOL
Yes, I know. I made a thread about it and got a bunch of abuse for accusing Blizzard of such things.