Blizzard may not be interested in its customers to whom it continues to send emails inviting its customers for over 20 years to buy pets and transmog. There are many of us on Classic and we are not Series B customers, by not intervening on bots and abused mechanics like World buffs that are clearly ruining the game you are treating us as Series C customers. Step in and do your job we are paying like retail players.
A lot of bots non-stop farming BRD and strath. Itâs impossible to play. If you are thinking it helps to increase population and improve economy - you are wrong. Just close some servers or allow free transfer. Itâs impossible to play with bots. Wanna find dungeon group? Only bots are online. Like i play WoW on some private server. Iâm paying your money, BLIZZARD. Do something about bots in WoW Classic. Or do you want same sheet in TBC? Just ask 1 of your employee to spend 1h/day to ban bots. Itâll be amazing effect!
Heck they could even put in place a system that allows selected players to ban bots and people would gladly do that
But why bother 
No way you could give players the power to ban
The botting issue will never be fixed or addressed properly they will keep doing the ban waves when the outcry from the community gets to much but in general the action they take is just like throwing a stone into the ocean. Itâs their way of saying âLook guys - we care and we are trying to solve itâ when in reality they know they will never solve it or even make a dent in the botting community and RMT market.
Hereâs the thing - they could get the game to a state where it isnât worth botting but they wonât. The simple reason is cost. They would need a massive team of GMâs working around the clock to combat the thousands upon thousands of bot accounts and even in Vanilla when they had a rather sizable team of GMâs you still had bots roaming the world, not as much as today but it shows you that itâs a hard problem to combat. Donât take that statement as me defending Blizzard Iâm not they could and should invest more into hiring GMâs but lets face it Classic and TBC Classic is just a cash cow to them the more they hire the more profit they lose so it just wonât happen they donât re-release these games to appease fan nostalgia they do it to make money and that is the only reason. The Blizzard of the past who cared about their player base and fans are long gone and you just have a corporate machine left trying to pull in as much cash as they can before the game finally dies or something better comes along that kills it.
As for making anti-botting software - yeah, of course they could but it is never effective enough to stop it like I said even back in Vanilla when it was harder to bot and Warden was brand new you still had people getting by that system and these players doing it have a lot to lose so they wonât just stop they will figure ways around any new software that is put in place and Blizzard would have to keep updating and adapting to combat it - again this would take a large amount of resources and money so itâs not going to happen.
It sucks but thatâs the reality of it.
Thatâs not my point, my point is that players would gladly get involved in bot-hunting in a better way than just âright click => report => prayâ
How they would get involved in another matter
Blizzard donât do crap about bots, not in classic, not in retail. Itâs outrageous.
They donât deserve our money.
This is what automation of customer service gets you. Crap service.
Oh and btwâŚthe games not any cheaper either.
It would require a company thats predicated on cost cutting to do a complete 180 in order to fix.
really makes me wonder how some french guys could do better server stability and bot fixing than blizzard. blizz just doesnt give a damn about classique
I donât think they are going to stop botting completely. Audience has matured and a lot of people who pay subscription have family and a lot less time to farm, so they practicaly have to buy gold if they want to raid.
This is maybe a bad idea, maybe not.
I see in the video they are botting for pvp ranks but there are bots for gold. Retail solved the gold sellers with the token, Iâd rather not get the token in classic/tbc/wrath.
So what if they simple disabled or severely limited the gold trade/mail limits?
They were ok to introduce an instance limit, bring in a gold transfer limit.
Limited amount per trade.
Limited number of trades between players (same players and only gold transfers etc)
Thoughts, i mean yeah sucks a bit for legit players but weigh up the proâs and conâs.
WOuld hurt legit trades way more⌠Gold sellers just use mule accounts to trade from different sources then
Well my slightly strict view is that if your main wants gold, go earn it, therefore âlegitâ trades shouldnât be hurt much as a new character only needs a few gold to get going, even that is a massive boost.
Please explain how it would hurt âway moreâ as Iâm maybe naive on the issue.
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mule accounts wouldnât help as the buyers character would be marked as having traded gold and therfore no longer able to accept gold (in any serious amount at least).
So if Iâm using one toon to sell my fel lotusses and other herbs and gems and enchanting materials there is a limit to what I can sell? Whhat would you set as a limit then because with the influx of gold in tbc you can expect some serious inflation.
I didnt say a limit on items.
Just on gold. Sure that means you could sell a lot of gold through buying>trading>selling items such as arcane Crystalâs or whatever else is costly but would you wanna go through that hassle to buy gold. Plus just because the seller gives you Crystalâs to the average market value of the gold you bought, you arent guaranteed to get that price yourself when selling. So trading gold through items is flawed, therefore trading items wouldnt need limiting, therefore your alts can still provide mats for your main.
Itâs just an idea to disrupt the gold trade and make it as awkward as possible which would hopefully lead to more people not bothering.
Tbh your idea is over complex and pointless at the same time. It wouldnât affect gold rmt but instead make it akward for all of us.
I really dont see how itâs more awkward.
As for complexity? It just requires a simple variable to hold the server time of whenever a player last accepted gold, maybe a popup dialog.
Could write an addon for it in less than 30mins, blizz could easily implement it and itâs as simple as,
âThere is now a limit on gold transfers between charactersâ
Itâs not difficult but imo is better than blizz giving classic the token system to combat gold selling.
Iâve seen loads of Hunter bots leveling up recenty. Like all over the place. Barrens, Hillsbrad, Desolace etc. They just kill mobs 24/7.
Maybe thats their TBC plan⌠for the 70 arena boosters?
You missed the point. I am selling all my stuff on one toon, that would mean I could run into your imposed limit and not be able to sell anything for a while. Not very convenient tbh.
Then mail the items to your main for that character to sell?