Why I`m not reporting bots anymore

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Here is my little story:

Let’s take one of the main farm spots, you can check ur servers cause this bot-people uses same presets.

For example check Silithus for troll-hunters/orc-warlocks with dog-s gear moving OMG like a sh**ty scripted pile of obvious automated software! ON the same spots FOR MONTHS with a little bit of extra protection with changing locations between 1-2-3 max spots in the same area with a little bit of configured offline time. BUT! This is only THE BEGINING.

As many or some of us knows, main bot-meta before summer banwave was a 5-man druid/3mage/priest Stratholme live farming almost 24/7. (not counting open world rofl-1man botfarms like yetis in Winterspring or Turtles on the far-shore of the Tanaris +++ I think many other that I don’t know about.

I have a screenshot from that times with 7 (SEVEN!!!) bot-groups in Stratholme only for alliance on the Mirage Raceway at once. To clarify, this bots was free farming at least 4-5 month before banwave.

Now, besides the open world bots, we have a new meta - BRD pick-pocketing rogue gold printing. Type /who Blackrock on your server, THE AMOUNT OF THE BOTS ARE INSANE AND ABOVE THE ANY LIMITS (more then 50 at one time, u can’t see more cause of limitation);

Why I`m not reporting anymore.

For 5 month, I had reported at least 10 bots every few days in open world, yesterday I got only one mail from support, that action had been taken (24 hours ago). But, today I saw 2 of them, and who know mb they got a rofl-24h suspension and will be back soon, or dont get the banana excursion at all.

Now to the juicier part, for the last few month, I was reporting /who Blackrock and all the list of non-guilded rogues with /w-right click report (this took about 45-75min)

And guess what? Typed today /who Blackrock - all the list are filed with non guilded rogues.

If the situation stays the same, with introduction of classic TBC this game will be doomed forever. U`ll see the flying bot-trains across the Outland AT LEAST.

Suggestions?

Hire 3 GMS on every 5-10 realms in 8 hour shifts.

Or contact my for pricing, mb u can’t find good personnel nowadays (I can handle 5 realms/10 hour shift, but this won`t be cheap).

Some conspiracy bonus:

  1. Blizzard CEOs decided to milk bots for subscription profit (very stupid short term decision)

  2. Corruption in the staff echelon that handles reports and mb they somehow involved into creation of this bot software.

Ask yourself these questions:

WHY I NEED TO REPORT WHEN MY REPORTS DONT MATTER AT ALL?

WHY I NEED TO WASTE MY GAME TIME TO REPORT INSTEAD OF PLAYING THE GAME?

WHY I NEED TO PAY FOR REPORTING BOTS WITH NO RESULT?

THAT’S THE NEW GAME, WORLD OF REPORT?

Thanks for reading.

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Issue is that Classic is notoriously understaffed. I mean the main game (retail) has been understaffed for ages, so what do you expect in a version of the game they regard as a cash cow?

The report feature is operated by a program, it takes a lot of people reporting before it actually takes any action.

And no, its no longer worth reporting bots in WoW. Iv done it for ages, and some bots I have personally reported on a daily basis for months (In Azshara where I farm runes every day almost, just one example). Guess what, they are still there.

All in all iv reported over 100 bots so far in classic. You know how many notifications iv received regarding the reports ? About 7-8.

Blizzard is a company that stopped giving a damn about their games a long time ago. Its all about max profits.

If I had to go as far id honestly advise people to get a bot on another account for TBC, before Blizzard bans it you will have a gold cap, mats and be set for Wotlk too.

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I think I’ve reported 20 bots randomly spotted the past 3 weeks, and on Sunday I received a “Thank you for reporting” in game mail from blizzard, stating that action was taken blabla, whether this is true or not I cannot prove.

For all I know blizzard sends out messages like this to act like they ban? Or on the other side, 1 out of 20 ain’t much, doesn’t help to ban 1 bot a day if 10 new ones comes along.

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I actually tested it. In Mograine, there was a known bot at yetis. For 1 month i only reported him many many times. I didnt report any other.

Then i got mail but the bot still continued to work on his rmt business.

That mail is a lie. There is no gm to ban bots in eu.

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That’s nuts…

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Oh wow, these precious 3 seconds of my game time required to click 4 times.

You don’t pay for reporting bots, you pay for being able to play the game.

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But you need to waste time typing a short explanation too which makes no sense. It’s not like they’re going to take your word for it.
I’ve stopped reporting too.

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No you don’t “need to”.
You can leave the field completely empty and report anyway.
The explanation-text is completely optional.

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Feels like leaving it empty will make blizz more likely to skip it (hypothetically speaking you know, assuming we had actual mods reviewing and banning them).
But already concluded bots don’t get banned so might as well save yourself the 3 seconds and 4 button clicks.

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I have personally seen the success of reports (reported a group of obvious mage-bots leveling, 4 days later only 2 of them remained, a week later they were gone completely), so I don’t share that conclusion tbh.

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To be precise, It`s at least 1 minute per repot.
To report 50 bots in BRD I had wasted around 45-75 min at a time.
All the time wasted add up.

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Right-Click → Report Player → Chose Reason for Report → Click Accept.
That’s 4-5 mouse-clicks.

How does that take 1 Minute?

/who “Black Rock Depths”
Press “Prnt” Button on Keyboard
Send Screenshot to hacks@blizzard.com with maybe 2 lines of text (my account name, datetime, what I think the screenshot shows)

There, 50 potential bots reported. Time spent…about 90 seconds, give or take?

:sunglasses:

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Blizzard system is modern, technology of 22nd century, bots reporting players.

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This doesn’t even cover the whole thing of handplayed gold farmers that are clearly selling their gold, especially on likely bought accounts etc. Which, handplayed gold farmers are all over the place in ele farming spots IE and running around usually as mages in every low level zone collecting herbs/mining nodes every day for almost the entire day.

The confirmed bots I had in my friends list? Very few of them stay offline and I rarely get mail so it generally takes enough time for it to not matter, they’ve made the gold they need to make it worth it especially since they can fund their accounts with tokens from their retail bots which almost never get banned either.

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