Blizzard Lost Control: Season of Discovery Bot Epidemic

WoW Classic is full of Chinese gold farmers. Blizzard clearly lost control

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[flyingoctopus]

Can Blizzard lose control if they never attempted to be in control?

[Gorbachoph]

I love that a large part of this video was two people struggling to count boxes

[Grimdock]

Remember in the good ol days when you could just Message a GM that was playing the game at the time and they'd INSTANTLY get back to you? Imagine...

[meeyatttA]

Glad to see Blizzard encourage players to learn math by calculating business expenses and profits of botting

[someone-jizb]

Funny thing is, if blizzard hired a SINGLE PERSON to go around nuking these bots.. they'd be forced to buy new accounts anyway, which is what they kept doing almost 20 years ago. It greatly lowered the amount of people abusing it, and also either made blizzard money, or at least offset the cost of those particular employees. I know I am making a bit of an assumption there, but with how many people buy gold, these botters will always return with a new account... just fewer of them lol

[MrOrmanley]

If you type /who, it will show the accounts that have been online for the longest, i.e. typically bots.
All blizz would have to do is hop to those accounts, observe what they do, and ban them.
Yet they banned an actual streamer recently for playing too much.

[numanumame]

I remember when Lost Ark was popular in its first months. Bot farms showed this type of setup as well.

[ecMonify]

back in the days of Glider, people would show pictures of their setups on the forums. i remember one guy who rented an office in germany where he ran 64 accounts. this was back in 2007.

[allmight]

There are services in China that you can pay for that offer cloud based gaming services specifically for bots. So a lot of these bot nets/farms don’t have physical computers on site.

[turgonnaish]

While levelling in The Barrens, there was a Cantabrian square of hunters in a zone just killing the quest mobs non stop. Fun and interactive!

[azbatuk]

All of those bots are paying clients. Blizzard did not lose control. Blizzard allows them to make more money while pretending they work against them to save face.

[Bloodyscissors]

I remember a video where a gold farmer went over his costs and profits. Running 20 accounts he was able to make 7000-8000 on a good month and 3000-4000 on a bad month. Assuming he wasn't lying about his profits this group running almost 400 accounts would expect to pull in $120, 000 each month. Bear in mind that a more organized group doing this is going to be more cost effective than a single dude doing it by himself so this is potentially a million dollar operation we're looking at.

[rehmsmeyer]

I will never forget during BC seeing a Chinese gold farming hunter with the guild name <I Farm Or Famiry Dies>

[Adzmataz]

I feel like the token just makes bottling easier and cheaper. They probably only pay an initial sub and use some of the gold they farm to buy tokens to basically keep their bots going for "free" after paying the first month's sub.

[dogtags]

The thing is aswell that people forget when working out the break even point is this. They farm gold and sell say 1000g for 100 pounds. The person then spends the fold in ah buying rares and epics. The gold farmers are also the ones selling the rares and epics they got while farming gold. So the farmer then gets baxk the same gold they sold. They resell it while continuing to farm. So they not only make gold the first month, but they are continually getting the gold they sold given back to them by the buyer. So that 1000g they make a month becomes 2000g the next month then 4000g the folowing and it continues. They control the entire market of gold.

[shmiftywastaken]

It's so easy to spot them too, I have found over 20 troll mage bots in Valley of Trials. They all auto-invite you to a party when you get into a certain range of them. But we all know complacency is Blizzards middle name.

[corysenseman]

Wouldn’t be surprised if 60% of the player base was just 20 dudes running bots to sell gold to the other 40% .

[Aelwyn]

Bots have been out of control for a long time. Even back in tbc I knew a guy who was a gold seller. He had a similar though smaller setup to the one in this video. He made a considerable amount of money and said Blizz simply did not care about botters. He's probably still at it as he made enough to buy a nice car with cash and it paid all his bills.

[Kanivalos]

Blizzard : "We have to bring WoW token in SoD to fight botters"

[conorwilliam]

I noticed some odd behaviour in westfall about 9 hours ago I counted 8 bots there 2 of them kept suicide charging into gnoll packs in the north and west. So i just used them as meat shields to take the aggro of rhe mobs while i dps them down on my hunter worked like a dream on getting them gnoll paws done 😂