Same rogue bots that I saw in Searing Gorge killing spiders are now kiling ghouls and skeletons in E. Plaguelands at the graveyard.
I always spoke about this in general chat and people came to se and we all reported them.
People are reporting everyday these same bots but they still farm 0-24 for days and blizzard are not registrating at all.
These rogues will hit 60 and all will pickpocet BRD all day long .
Cant beleive that single one of this bot is not punished. Will continue to report them, will continue to speak to others about them but honestly is there a point at all?
I get that it is frustrating.
However, Blizzard cannot just go around banning accounts willy-nilly, because you believe that it is a bot.
Blizzard are forced to gather copious amounts of evidence - otherwise it is a lawsuit just waiting to happen should a player get banned for something they didn’t do.
They do get banned, just not as often as one would like.
Nor has it ever solved anything in the 17 years of World of Warcraft. It is a futile effort as banning bots is just treating the symptoms, not the cause - which is the playerbase that buys Gold from RMT.
If you really want to get rid of the issue, you ban the playerbase that buys this gold once you have thinned them out you go after the bots.
It’s about making it as non-profitable for them as damn possible.
I want to ask you something, cuz iam really curious. The last time i read the terms of service from Wow it was kinda like that: Everthing on your account is owned by blizzard and even if they what to ban you they dont have to even give out reasons. Did that changed ?
Nope it didn’t change, however Blizzard don’t really care about banning bots in classic. I gave up reporting them in the end. All they need to do is /who blackrock, look in on them then ban them.
I don’t know why you think that. But no, that’s not the case. What’s more interesting is that you think that is the case. The more people that think that’s the reason, the more the big blue benefits as it can hold it’s hands up and say “we’d like to; but the law”.
I hate to be cynical but it’s just more likely that investigating and banning bots, represents a cost, a cost that has no direct return.
Blizzard reserves the right to terminate this Agreement at any time for any reason, or for no reason, with or without notice to you. For purposes of explanation and not limitation, most Account suspensions and terminations are the result of violations of this Agreement. In case of minor violations of these rules, Blizzard may provide you with a prior warning and/or suspend your use of the Account due to your non-compliance prior to terminating the Agreement or modifying or deleting an Account.
The first part is mostly just telling you that Blizzard reserves the right to stop the service at any one point in time - such as shutting down WoW with or without notifying you, it also reserves the right to update the agreement with or without notifying you.
The latter part tells you under which circumstances you get a ban according to their suspension paragraph further up.
You don’t just get banned for no reason. They have never banned for no reason. They ban when they have collected sufficient evidence as has always been the case. To think otherwise you contradict their practice for years. Yes, they have an automated system now in regards to many minor violations that would not give a ban in the first place. I can assure you that in times past breaking something as simple as the Community Guidelines netted you a 24hr suspension which increased in severity each time you broke it and was reported.
Either your account has been spotted by whatever anti-cheating software (such as Maphack in Diablo and Warcraft) or a GM has investigated your account and found you to be botting due to reports such as in WoW.
They are still liable under the State law of Delaware, they don’t just get to do whatever the hell they please. Game Companies have been sued for less and lost - most of the time you just get a refund, so eh.
And no they’re likely not spending as many resources on this as previous, because it is entirely a waste of resources.
It will never even remotely make a dent in bots, because bots are just the symptom not the cause which is the playerbase engaging in RMT, they, the RMT companies, just make new accounts and off they go again and/or they have several backup accounts ready to be resubscribed (that’d be my guess or what I would do anyway) to keep their “service” running.
All we got out of people and their need to have bots “under control” was this Asian MMO **** that is dungeon limitations that ultimately does nothing to prevent botting and in fact just hurts the players.
There is not 1 single gm in classic to ban bots. We only saw kaivax (forum poster copy/pasting us announcements) in two years, i guess he works there alone.