If anybody of you who are going to blizzcon, can you please by the holy hand grenade, ask what blizzard are going to do about this bot problem in world of warcraft.
We all know its a problem, if those of you who buy gold from same bots, know they Are a massive problem.
Battlegrounds full of bots,
Bots mass reporting people
Flyhacking to get to vein, herbs etc.
Fueling inflation of prices on everything.
The list goes on and on. It has to be a way to reduce the amount of botting.
Edit; i did not know, that wont do a Q and A this time. So pointless question.
And i can i see alot of people dont agere with me either. Which is fine
Over the past few weeks, we’ve taken actions that removed almost 120,000 malicious accounts from the World of Warcraft ecosystem, including both Wrath of the Lich King Classic and Classic Era. This is in addition to our usual, ongoing banwaves, which often include actions against tens of thousands of accounts per week.
We hope that this helps slow the proliferation of malicious behavior in Wrath of the Lich King Classic. It’s important to keep in mind that as long as there is a demand for gold and other services that players are willing to pay real money for, these malicious actors will keep coming back. Please-- never hesitate to report suspected cheating such as buying and selling gold for real money, automation, and advertisements for power leveling or any real-money sales in chat. Your reports greatly help our efforts to take actions that improve the game.
You’re not getting anything else from them at BlizzCon. You’re probably not even getting that.
Idc if there is a live Q&A or not. Somebody just has to have the balls to yell it out while they are on stage. Loud as you can. Who cares if they kick you out, at least a handful of other people are going to jump in. Everybody in the audience will be wondering about that guaranteed.
no live Q&A, some people abused it for calling out their crap guilds or whatever and i dont think blizzard liked to be called out by the red shirt guy during “that” blizzcon. Even if they did im sure they would have premade questions and answers, so wouldnt matter anyway (they did this with diablo)
It’s a business, so you gotta think of it as a deal. So the problem is if there’s a lot of bots farming gold and mats, the prices in the game will rise or fall depending if the bots are farming them all or not. They sell gold to people, which means they make money, but in this case, they would still have to pay that subscription to Blizzard. So if Blizzard is making money from all of these bots, they wouldn’t care because they are still making a profit from this. Now, if they didn’t make any money from this but only from selling cosmetics or in-game purchases, then they would eliminate the bots from existing. So, even if you are upset and complain about the bots, they wouldn’t do anything because they are still paying customers unless they violate one of their rules. I know D2 back in the days used to do a reset and got rid of all bots, but know they don’t care. Since they have to pay that $50 for a game why would they care about bots.
Every single game has a bot issue. Literally. Its so bad, even youtube videos are being “botted” made with AI. The biggest causation of bots are the players themselves buying gold. Could companies do more to fight them? Yeah, but they really dont have an incentive to do so (outside of making their drug addicted userbase feel better LOL). Corporations’ sole purpose is to make money. They’re not making money spending time banning paying bots.
Even if there was a Q&A what would you hope the devs would answer? In Retail (which still is their main focus for WoW) the botting problem exists but it’s just much less an issue with sharding so you barely see them and the fact that gold is just…kinda worthless for the most part.
As for Classic…again right now this is a side project for Blizz. They’ll just tell you how they’re banning in waves and why that is better and that they’re always improving, yada, yada, yada.
Why would you ask a question that has been answered?
Blizz won’t care until it is a net profit for them to do so, until then they’re only required to do the bare minimum to probably cover some legalities or something.
The year is no longer 2003. It is now 2023. There is not much anybody can do about bots. There is no magical cure-all fix. This is an issue that hasn’t been solved by social media companies like Facebook and Twitter. It hasn’t been solved in the forms of physical spam mail or spam robocalls.
With wealth inequality as it is in the real world, there will always be a demand for people to bot and earn real money, and a supply or buyers willing to spend their disposable income.
We can go the nuclear route and operate under a police state where everyone is guilty until proven innocent, but that doesn’t sound very fun for the masses, or sustainable for Blizzard to moderate. We can explore tying SSNs or phone numbers to accounts, but players in countries and games that employ these methods will still find ways to circumvent this by borrowing or stealing identities, or spoofing phone numbers. We can explore region lock, but people can use VPNs. We can implement a SSF mode, but people can still sell remote piloting services.
If you know a viable method that hasn’t been discovered and explored in the past 3 decades of internet gaming, feel free to share it with Blizzard and the rest of us because you would become insanely wealthy. The only actual effective solution is to run individual private servers with private teams of moderators that have authoritarian control over the population which will still lead to complaints about corruption.
