So I tried questing this morning. Which still is 99% just standing and waiting for spawns.
Most players in Felwood were generic orc hunter bots. I didn’t think it was this bad. All of them running the same laps in the zone. Keeping all wolfs and bears dead 24/7. I lost count of them. They also seem quite advanced, if you kill and loot a mob that is skinnable they instantly tries to ninjaskin it if they are close by.
This have gotten way out of hand. I bet a vast majority of the playerbase are buying bot gold in order for this massive supplychain to be worth it…
Leaves a really bad taste… And btw, I blame the playerbase. They create the demand. “Playing” the game with their mastercard. Buying boosts to 60 and then buying BIS-gear.
I agree, if there would be less goldbuyers there would be way less bots too which after sneaking a peek on certain sites and comparing to ingame it correlates somewhat with the amount of superbot armies I’m seeing.
I gave it a quick bit of thought and I can’t really see any good way out of it. Which I guess is why the problem still persists.
Problem:
The playerbase obviously want this because they cba to play the game, to level and roll on gear. So the bot industry will remain and supply what the players are asking for.
Blizzard will be 100% reactive and have to combat this nonstop to fix whatever new ways the botters comes up with. Constantly being one step behind.
Solution:
Take away all forms of trading. Make all loot personal. Taking the matches out of the childs hand so to speak. This would destroy large portions of the game and so it will never be implemented. But obviously the playerbase can’t handle the freedom given to us in the game without abusing it.
The real and only viable solution:
Playerbase stops buying gold, boosts and gear. But people are way too lazy and entitled these days so that’s never going to happen either.
And so we are stuck with this self-inflicted problem. Kind of like that meme where a guy runs a stick in the frontwheel of his own bicycle.
The rules do get enforced and botters and goldbuyers get penalised. There even was a topic some days ago that said the bots they reported got banned only to return in the same zone so it’s not like no action is being taken.
But the OP of that thread then kept insisting that no action was being taken contrary to his own observation that pointed the opposite so uh.
Oh yea about this, that is why certain gold boosters sell dungeon runs or boss kills instead of trading - which would evade a trade blockade like now.
Real solution:
Every wow player registers with his/her official documents. At the end of the week you sent a file of how much gold in game you gained and spent. If you can’t explain where did you get that gold - you are executed.
Wow leading team that is responsible for decisions about botting gets executed as example. If bots swarms appear again - new executions.
Poof - bots gone
I think the sad fact is that Blizzard don’t care and they will never do anything that requires more than a token effort on their part to solve the problem.
It’s a hard pill to swallow, but it is what it is.
It’s all those guys buying gold for their GDKPs, isn’t it? Luckily, prohibiting GDKPs solved the problem of people buying gold and bots running rampant.
Blizzard has concentrated the whole community into one server. In the past, big servers would experience botting, while more obscure ones (smaller) would be safe from them.
Blizzard has opted for layering - meaning, not only can the community be accommodated, but also the whole bot running scheme.
The whole money making business under one roof. GDKPs are banned for aesthetic purposes.
I think Blizzard do cares. Just not the way most expect to.
GDKP was only a portion of RMT. I can’t really see anyone genuinely beliving in removing GDKP would entirely remove botting-industry and RMT. That’s quite a disingenuous statement tbh…
Doing the hinterlands quest to collect beer for STV and finding all these cute level 20 horde friends fishing together.
At least im happy this is a pvp server. (i am a night elf)
Blizzard actively made RMT more attractive by releasing a single megaserver, with too many players and too few mobs/slow spawning mobs. They then decided on a release schedule that encourages players to rush to 60 or end up with a fear of missing out.
Of course people were going to use RMT to buy boosting services or the gold to buy boosting services. This then means more bots to fund these players, which means even more stretched resources on servers, which means more RMT… and so the loop goes on.
There’s loads of easy at least partial remedies for this problem: -
Lock the server for new players and then do a big ban wave.
Register using ID documents to create a whitelisted server.
Make mob tags count for everyone (as in retail)
Make resource nodes farmable by all players for a period of time before despawning (as in retail)
Whilst not fixes these would help massively but unfortunately Blizzard won’t do it, cause they don’t want to. I’m sorry but it’s so blatantly obvious that this situation suits Blizzard and they don’t want to fix it.
And btw, Asmongold just released a video 2 days ago named - Blizzard should be ashamed of themselves.
Some comments (go check yourselves):
1- Man, gotta love Blizzard huh? It’s so obvious they let botting happen so they can get some extra money each month, disgusting (4.6k likes)
2- Those people are doing something wrong but Blizzard is endorsing it and generating it because they don’t care at all and it makes money for them too (1.6k likes)
3- Blizzard allowed this to happen… Fact! (1.8k likes)
4- Imagine Blizzard is behind the botting, just to push a wow token in the new anniversary servers… (490 likes)
I guess some of us are making convenient stuff up all at once at the same time, right?