Don’t tell me your glorious “anti-hack team” actually does something. Every poorly trained monkey could detect most of the bots flyhacking through dungeons or grinding in the open world 24/7.
When, if ever, can we expect any response from Blizzard?
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When idiots stop buying gold from 3rd party sites, then the bots will be gone. It’s not on Blizzard exclusively.
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private servers did a way better job banning them (even the ones that didnt sell gold themselves). this by itself proves to me that its on blizzard to stop it.
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right, just like on retail servers which have absolutely no bot problems at all, right? 
Spotted the infamous gold buyer.
Because private servers had something to lose.
They don’t sell subscriptions.
Blizzard does.
Blizzard does ban bots, but they have an unspoken agreement between them and the botters that they ban in waves. Once they ‘detect’ someone is botting it can still take several months before they swing the banhammer on them.
By that point the botter has grinded and sold a lot of gold for IRL money, earning him back more than the few months of sub and a 58 boost.
So by that point he’ll simply buy a new account with the earnings while still having some money left over and then the cycle repeats.
Blizzard simply don’t want to ban them too quick, if they did it’d no longer be profitable to bot as you’d be banned within days before you could turn a profit.
And Blizzard don’t want them to stop buying boosts.
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True, but then again its not quite as easy to make gold every time from gathering stuff.
Why? Because every time you into a zone with veins, herbs or gases you have 200 Chinese/Ruskie no-life gold sellers (actual players) that just farm this stuff to sell online for irl money. Its what they do as a job.
You try to push them away its not quite as easy as 10 of them grp up and overpower you. Yes they are horrible players, but you cant 1v10.
On the other side there is even more bots who wont fight back, but a legion of them is flying around on epic mounts farming stuff 24/7. The fact that they all have epic mounts shows how often they get banned.
Anyways, fighting them is pointless as there is always a ton more flying about.
So you see, while people would love to go out and farm their gold, its not quite as simple and they are forced into buying it.
This scumbag company needs to ban and removed these leeches from the game so that the playerbase can actually do it themselves and not have to buy gold.
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Good point, maybe that’s the case in those megaservers (Benediction, Gehennas, Firemaw, etc) but in my medium PvP server I can easily farm my consumables despite limiting botting.
Are you autistic or something? that’s really the conclusion you reached after reading my post?
what i am saying is that 3rd party websites still successfully sell gold despite the fact blizzard introduced the wow token, aka it didn’t solve the problem whatsoever.
dunce.
I can still farm stuff on Firemaw. Its just very annoying because a ton of bots are just flying around. And it just takes me more time to farm out what I need.
Iv been playing long enough to realize that botting will never go away, its as much a part of WoW as bad expansions. But I dont remember seeing this many bots and gold farmers ever in my 17yrs in the game.
Blizzard done one big ban wave every 4-6 months. In that time these guys make their investment 50 times over. No reason to ever stop.
Gold buyers have jobs now and can afford to buy more gold than 17years ago.
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But you’re really famous for it indeed.
i wasn’t aware of that, especially considering i’ve never bought gold lol. if only i could become famous irl for doing nothing, that would be sweet.
Um yes it is?
Sorry for claiming earlier that Blizzard passively allows botters to take-over the game because it feeds them new subscriptions.
It’s later come to my attention that they’re extremely vigilant and pay close attention to any gameplay by these clearly very real players being out of the norm.
In other words, nothing to see here, just legitimate players legitimately playing the game in legit ways.
Seems legit.
https://nordic.ign.com/news/44523/activision-blizzard-has-reportedly-laid-off-nearly-190-employees
Problem solved = yes, ja, da, jaförfan, Ty.
Same attitude as blizzard. It seems that they dont care either 
I 100% agree with this statement. However Blizzard made it even worse stating that those activities which encourage gold buying (you know, boosts, GDKP, etc) were not against the TOS, so now retail is pretty much divided between the boosters and their customers and classic TBC is following the same path.
We can see the opposite stance in another current MMO, where they recently modified the TOS to explicitly forbid those kind of things and deliver thousands of permabans every week for anything realted to RMT activities within the game. This kind of thing is what the company can do to try to fix things. The fact that the company doesn’t even bother with it in our case is completely on the company, not on the players.
I don’t know about other servers but Nethergarde k is bots kingdom, and I reported many of them but even after a month or two they are still there and digging in my nerves day by day…
I would really appreciate someone doing something…if such an antibot system can’t do anything let some gm contact me…in two days I’ll find him 20 bots to ban