Let’s mix:
Locked crate chests.
Flyhacks.
Poor warden system.
Bots.
Gold Buyers.
Put it in the pan for 5min and then… you have this:
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It’s so hard to track though, how can blizz possibly combat this? Imagine if we had tech that could detect people flying in the air. Or being logged in 100 hours a week doing the same thing, same paths taken. Or trading obscene amounts of gold to people they’ve never spoken to or interacted with.
One day tech will advance that far!
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We couldn’t even have a nice early game it’s been completely ruined already.
I’ve deleted my 2 characters, cancelled my sub and am never coming back. It’s an absolute cesspit of botters/hackers and gold buying retards. I wouldn’t even play here if it went F2P.
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Guys. I totally can’t see any bots here, what strange allegations.
I bet Sdfkoie, Gsebssv, Exdcvx, Wrevcbcv and others are a completely legitimate players that are enjoying SoD as all of us! There is no way 90% of that list is bots lockpicking chests.
There is no bots in Ba Sing Se…
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I mean they could make the warden system more invasive but people would cry about that as well 
What amuses me the most is that they blatantly don’t even care if their character name even sounds remotely legit anymore because they know there’s no one even looking at them unless it’s flagged by multiple player reports. It’s basically create character, type Digvdhcdf and then off they bot.
Yes, that’s the most hilarious part - like they aren’t even trying to hide.
One human GM is all it would take to flag hundreds of those in a matter of an hour.
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An unbeatable, impossible to ban bots are here idd! Literally cant ban them, they are inside dungeon so no mass reports, blizzard has no non automated ban system and no human employers (both figuratively and literally) to combat such advanced tactics.
One GM per server could take care of most bot problem…but then you have to hire and pay some guy while banning valuable customers(bots) that pay sub and make your stats look good.
Blizzard will just ignore this till p2 where the world gets bigger and less noticeable.
they don’t need warden detect this, it can all be done server side.
Or maybe, just maybe have 1 GM per server to do the banning.
The tech is there 
A GM could literally ban 50-100 bots just by standing at Southshore on my server. They run into a tree trunk and proceed to levitate 200ft into the air, before turning and running towards SFK.
And don’t give me that old tripe that every bot must be carefully investigated. The moment they levitate 200ft into air, they should be banned.
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Warden is a joke outdated system. Until they update their ancient anti hack nothing is going to change.
Yea, idk why blizz is so stingy. People saying it’s too expensive boggles my mind.
They could outsource it to a Third World country for a few euros an hour.
I would do it for free. Get home after work, clear bots on my server and chill and play some SoD
yeah, but every bot you can ban is costing them 10$a month. so when you can ban 100 bots in an hour, you are actually costing them 1000$ an hour. A good solution imo, would be to make the first month you pay for the subscription more expensive, and the following months cheaper. This would incentivize blizzard to ban bots and have them resub.
Bots have a pretty disastrous effect on such games - go check Lost Ark.
I can assure you, Blizz is not doing this kind of math you suspect. It’s not some sinister plan or conspiracy, it’s just plain incompetence.