I can tell you they do nothing. I always report bots and after reporting them i put them to my friend list to see if they are gonna be banned. A few days later i get a mail thanking me to help them fighting about botting and multiboxing and i can confirm that so far i didnt see any of the bots offline after my reports. They farm 24 hours. After 2 months i remove them from my friend list but so far i can confirm blizzard does not ban them at least 2 months i cant say if they take action after 2 months but i doubt it.
As long as they buy tokens for sub they wont ban them.
From what I’ve seen so far Bastion and Ardenweald is a bot prime territory. Seen loads of then South of Bastion just running in circles picking up herbs / mining ores (Been leveling an alt there today, seen like 7 bots from both Alliance and Horde). Obviously reported all of them but have my doubts that anything is being done. That is a reason why I am raising a question like… What is actually Blizz doing about it… If they are even doing something.
I do see the odd herb train here and there but rarely these days.
It is not an instant action. The report presumably goes into a queue where someone will investigate and take action if necessary. I’ve successfully reported several this expansion.
they have been really good in dealing with all the skinning bots, but for whatever reason the herb/mining bots seem to get a pass… no matter how much or how long i report them they are still there after months. I dont know why this is maybe its easier to get proof from the skinning bots that they are in fact bots.
I’m a returning subscriber and the amount of obvious druid bots you see as soon as you hit Bastion is shameful.
As soon as I hit the first innkeeper I immediately saw trains of guildless travel form bots running around skinning and herbing/mining, its nuts… The first mob I killed in shadowlands on a ledge ended up with 3 bots getting stuck below it for 5 minutes running against the wall.
when gold buying went poorly at the end of BFA expansion bots died therefore they exist now in Shadowlands. “the realm of after life doesn’t reject any soul even if it was a bot xD”
That’s a battle that cannot be won. The battle against automation can only be won by automation. Have you seen the vid of the guy multiboxing 100+ accounts?
While these bots are botting, other bots are leveling up.
You know what will fix it? Limit the amount of WoW instances that can be run per network. They can also hardware limit it to one instance per computer, using hardware ID. These checks will be done on the server side, so they won’t be able to be avoided.
Some Lineage 2 private servers allow only one instance of the game per network. That’s that.
The flipside is that you get to have cheap mats and legendary bases, BECAUSE the resources are so farmed and there’s such an oversupply.
Limit the game to 3 instances per network on the server side and watch all bots vanish :3
you watched video how you can screw out a Bot? its so damn funny when you do
you can put toy box over bot node to bug the bot or portal toy over node so bot end in other location
Imagine some gold farmer get his bot in morrning, you screw it with toy, he come back at evning seeing his bot stucked…0 gold but elecricity bill , thats just preacious.
Ehh this would still all be easily bypassed. VPNs are cheap, VMs are easy to use/free and hardwareID spoofing is not particularly difficult. In due course it would also screw over a lot of legitimate customers who share the same networks, PCs etc as other users, or just have a few legit accounts.
IMO the way forward for games combatting cheaters is not putting in limitations and anticheats which are an uphill battle, it’s better heuristic cheat detection. I mean most of the bots I have seen in bastion are running the EXACT same path/profile/etc, they are probably running 24/7, statistically it’s probably very very easy to at least flag accounts like this for review.
Another possibility is rather than having a single huge resource limited general purpose system watching over players, alongside this have a resource intensive system that can focus on a single player at a level that would not be feasible to do generally in order to determine if they are a bot (Using machine learning for example), and link this up to specifically review a queue of accounts reported.
Draconic methods and software based approaches have not been successful so far, these big companies need to step up their R&D on heuristic/AI based anticheats if they actually care about dealing a huge blow to the cheating community.
Leveling takes time… if an account is banned before that account had the time to reap in the gold the bot user would deem it not worth the bother. But because Blizzard opts to have months in between ban waves, that’s a lot of time to reap in all that gold multiple folds.
Active GMs in other MMOs have kept botting low to non-existent due to on the spot bans. Here in WoW the game’s absolutely riddled with them, even after their useless ban waves.
