A struggle that has always been present in World of Warcraft is that of fight against bots to expel them from the game, although sooner or later they end up coming back more and more. This unpleasant situation does not please the community at all, but in recent days it seems to have increased even more in the Season of Discovery.
There are users complaining about having seen more bots around the city than players, especially in Stormwind. Beyond being one of the main cities in the game, it is because in the middle of its streets there is a dungeon that is not excessively complicated either, so a very quick way to earn money is by accessing it, cleaning all its rooms. and going out to sell everything that has been obtained or placing the objects in the auction house.
YouTube user Vixacious has published a video about it in which he has shown that there are indeed a huge number of bots. So you can see how a wave of characters follow a fixed route from the entrance to the dungeon to a vendor in question, with a constant influx of characters going from one place to another, but always following exactly the same path without any type of error.
Another of the serious problems of this situation is that bots take up space on servers, so sometimes users may find themselves with the case that these are full and they have to wait patiently in a waiting queue to gain access. In fact, another X user (Twitter) posted another video more to show the result, although this time asking Josh Greenfield what he thought of all this.
The senior producer of World of Warcraft Classic has not ignored the doubt, so he wanted to pronounce to offer your vision of this fight against bots:
I hate to comment on this topic because I will never be able to give a satisfactory answer, but the reason this is so is because so far we have been very effective and have eliminated most of the farms elsewhere. This is kind of a constant resource for these clowns. The reality is that when we crush a few different farms, many times they go back to the next best option.
Of course we are keeping an eye on the areas, we will ban this round and tomorrow they will be back with thousands of new accounts. Believe me, it's discouraging for us too, but we have to keep working. The reality is that the more effective we are, the more visible these things become. We banned thousands of accounts, you will see more bots leveling up in the outdoor world. We fixed an exploit in one area or dungeon, it will lead bots to one or more more dungeons.
Even so, despite being such an unpleasant situation for the team, Greenfield wanted to point out What's positive about this whole thing?:
The fact that we're seeing behavioral changes again and these guys moving on to other places is a good thing. It's just a difficult thing for a player to perceive because it's in a city and it's very visible.
Again, not satisfactory. Bots will never go away. You can only mitigate, not resolve. It's about making it more expensive for them to continue and that's the best we can do. This is another reminder not to buy gold and create a market for them. This is even more damaging as it reduces your profit margins and makes it more expensive to write new bots, hack, and maintain your farms.
Like I said, it's hard to comment on this because it will never be enough, and it seems like hot air, but I'm proud of what our Server and Game Operations Security teams have accomplished in this patch. It is very frustrating not to be able to share the progress and behavioral trends that are reported to me almost every day and the impact it has had on the performance of these farms. Our security staff work tirelessly for this in literally the most thankless job in gaming, but it has a huge impact.
Therefore, despite being a serious problem for everyone, Blizzard makes it clear that it is working very hard to put bots in serious troublealthough it is very clear that it is a war that is too far from seeing its end.
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