World of Botcraft

[Daveyoyo-thunderstrike]

So my 2 Cents .

For the past 5 days i lvl up in desolate and at one point i tried to lvl up my proff and making some money .(mount etc )

In the area Mannoroc Coven there are 2 bots Tauren Warriors constantly farming ( they follow the same route =basically 1 person using the same bot program ) everything and redo this at a 24/24 per day . (I even uploaded a video 15 min that simply follow exact the same patch curve etc…
Multiple complains on General channel from several ppl /report etc and as i know 5 days they are just there

It’s way frustrating competing with bots and the company just give you a middle Xcross:D

I played plenty of MMO ,Lineage-Gw-EvE-FF series and several other but this inability that wow has with all the aspects, especially on customer service and with some basic like bots is just unaccepted .

[Saneko-ragnaros (Saneko)]

@Daveyoyo-thunderstrike

and the company just give you a middle Xcross:D

How so?

@Daveyoyo-thunderstrike

I played plenty of MMO ,Lineage-Gw-EvE-FF series and several other

As you noted, every game has the same problems.

@Daveyoyo-thunderstrike

I even uploaded a video 15 min that simply follow exact the same patch curve etc…

There are many videos like this I’ve inspected a couple of them the past week and alas while the botters change tactics slightly it doesn’t appear that there’s a major shift in both (anti)-bot technologies.

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

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.

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.

[Saneko-ragnaros (Saneko)]

@Majitani-stitches

They turn a blind eyes toward bots it can’t be more obvious.

I see individual cheaters, including botters get banned on a daily basis at the US CS forums. If you meant, they can’t tackle the actual criminal orgs, then that is correct. They’re based in low or no judicial countries so they tend to come back after their bots get banwaved.

@Majitani-stitches

But you have to take in count the sub money that bots bring also.

This has already been addressed, but I’m not surprised you didn’t read:

@Saneko-ragnaros

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.

The rest of your post would require actual sources if you’re up for a discussion.

[Dwarfbeauty-stitches]

I’ve met several bots in Badlands recently.

The saddest party was when I followed an alliance hunter bot I told to nearby troll hunter “check out this bot lol” only to realize this troll hunter was a bot too

Felt so surreal but here we are

[Daveyoyo-thunderstrike]

Just wake up , the same thing 24/24 . No gathering items and no nothing to do .

I’m almost 1 hour in this area and i got 1 ****** herb …1…

So question why don’t you advertise the game as a bot infesting platform ??

[Daveyoyo-thunderstrike]

It’s really funny

For half hour they disappeared just for other warrior same route to do the same …it’s like a endless bot army**

[Zadiztimo-living-flame]

Wait until you reach tanaris, the are with all the ofres. Its infested with bots completely

[Daveyoyo-thunderstrike]

i tried badlands…very bad lands
15 ppl at the elements area =was a sign of go away and basically every spot there is troll Hunter (currently farming in a small area with green npc with 4-6 lower ilvl .