To All Who Championed the GDKP Ban... How’s the Economy Now?

[Saneko-ragnaros (Saneko)]

@Slagt-noggenfogger

can you admit that you gave Blizzard an easy out to keep raking in bot subs while pretending to care about botting and gold buying?

Some accounts also get stolen with phishing methods or used with fraudulent credit cards, that incur chargeback merchant fees for Blizzard. The “paid” amount plus penalty costing Blizzard a lot more not to mention the damage the botters do ingame.

For example in video 2 I think they explain how botters make very cheap accounts not profitable for Blizzard at all in here (thanks to that poster btw for linking):

"If Chaos is the Rule, I’m Playing By It"

h ttps://youtu.be/He3Vk97DJYQ Use captions or google translate. It is a rabbit hole worth diving into. Much trickier with the second one. Afraid there is only so much i can post on this forum without involuntarily advertising botting. Lets try this one for size h ttps://youtu.be/phfSTLtc58U Lets just say botmakers are not exactly happy with people reverse engineering their beloved creations. h ttps://youtu.be/Da_yftfs1ys h ttps://youtu.be/F48tnJelYRg Noclip is still not fixed five years l…

For example in another F2P game Valorant & League this is explained in more detail why it is so difficult:

/dev: Vanguard x LoL

An ex-dev that worked at Blizz:

Banwaves Are Smart

If you have any good ideas don’t forget to submit them through the ingame suggestion box!

@Kaivax

We hear folks say things like “just ban the bots” a lot. We ban tens of thousands of bots a week. It’s not visible to you just how much we do, and that is absolutely another problem in itself; we need to be better at surfacing these actions (more on this later). The truth is we’ve never been better and more effective at identifying and actioning malicious accounts, and our Game Security Operations (GSO) team that handle these actions are iterating and innovating on a nearly daily basis.

Unfortunately, in the history of WoW, the people perpetrating this illicit trade have also never been better at coming up with new methods, schemes, farms, and exploits to work around our efforts. As much engineering and analytics effort as we put into this, illicit RMT “workshops” put the same amount in, or more, and there are hundreds, if not thousands of these workshops out there all working around the clock to develop new technologies and techniques to counter our new technologies and techniques. It’s an arms race, and it never, ever ends.

We will never completely beat “bots” or illicit RMT. It’s an unwinnable war as long as there is money to be made by third parties. The ubiquitous nature of this type of thing in online games is an objective fact. It has always been a part of WoW, and every other popular online game for the past 25 years, and it will always be a part of online games going forward. It’s frustrating to fight this fight, but we will not stop fighting it.

While we can’t completely “win” the war, what we can do is mitigate the impact it has on the game. Is WoW Token the be-all and end-all to solve this? No, but it is a tool. It’s just one tool, though, among many. There is clearly a demand for gold for certain types of players, and that demand is only increasing. So, we are engaging a tool that we’ve used before to help mitigate the impact that illicit RMT has on the game. The more tools we employ, and the less lucrative we can make it for third parties to do what they do to make a profit, the less likely it is that new malicious actors enter the illicit RMT scene, and the more likely that existing malicious actors will exit the business. Ultimately, it’s taking incremental steps and using a multitude of tools that will reduce how impactful those third parties will be in Wrath Classic and beyond.

Source.