Heyho, There is no real question in this thread, I just want to share some expiriences. I have some people in my guild that really don`t like botters. And I totally understand that, because if anyone tries top play a BG by hand they will know why. Its just overpopulated with bots acting as smart as a piece of sh... Whyle chilling with my guildmates in teamspeak I noticed that they report botters... Thats their good right, as they are honest players. They asked me to also report player XX for botting. Ok I pretendet to do so. Ok that startetd about 3 month ago, reporting an AH bot. I am 100% sure that it is an HB auction bot, because I startet my auction bot und my toon used the same waypoints and the toon stands in the ah for about 8h a day 7days a week. It was a lvl 90 well equipped toon with many achievments. I am sure it is the main char of that player. I know that he recieved at least 5 reports- Nothing happened. Now, they did the same again to the same player, nothing happened. Some days ago me and some guys from the guild created some twinks and went for dungeon runs. We had a tank, a heal and a DD in our group so there was no wait time between the dungeons. At the stormwind dungeon a mage came to our group (we were horde). The mage didn`t move, didn`t answer. It was clear to me he was a bot. Finally he moved but right into a mob group and ofc died. Guess what he did? He rezzed at the spirit healer in elwynn, while pvp was on. Perfect idea. So he got knocked over and over, while always used the spirit healer. Everyone was making fun of him and every party member reported him for cheating (obviously I didn`t). Ofc we logged onto our alliance chars and kept knocking him over for 20 minutes. Now guess who we met 3 times about 10 days later in northend dungeons? Acting like a piece of shit, getting stuck all the time or just didn`t move? I added him to my buddylist and guess who is still doing dungeons all the time, changes zones but never answers to whispers? I am a botter myself. Not really hardcore, I mainly use it for questing and leveling toons. And I don`t mind if bots farm shit, grind or quest. I eaven don`t mind if the influence the economy on a realm. But what really sucks is the direct influence to the gameplay of other real players by doing BGs and dungeons. I don`t mind if the use a combat/raiding botbase. And as far as I thought, blizzard kind of thinks the same. Although they possibly could (and I think they can) they would not ban someone as long as he doesn`t hit a automated detection system and as long as no one complains about him. But they would immidiately ban proven botters if they were reported. But now I must say thats not the truth. I personally have 3 accounts, that I never played myself, each one with 2x90 they were botted all the time, and once they hitted lvl 90 they were just farming for a month untill gametime ran out. Never got a ban for botting (ok, I did get one for using a ***** accidently, but got my acc back in 5 min because they thought it was hacked) Just some thoughts.
I've narrowed it down to for the most part, blizzard really only researches complaints that are related to the economy(and harassment too). Blizzard gets so many reports per day its almost impossible to fully research each one.
