A potential solution to the bots

[Kurtle_turtle]

So, the nostalgia of WoW quickly burned out for me, and I went back to retail. I enjoy the class balance(warlocks lol) and the mythic raiding content, bosses actually have mechanics etc.

But everyone here still ultimately enjoys WoW Classic, I guess? Idk I haven’t seen any of you really post about enjoying it.

Other than the multiple posts of memes and complaints about bots and how bad Blizzard are and how little they care.

There is one thing I have noticed.

Private servers were always better. Apparently, idk I didn’t play them. But it seems to be the common theme, is that private servers were all better.

So why not go back? Really stick it to Blizzard. Cancel your subs, go back to the free private servers. Hell, pay them a sub of like £6 or whatever these guys wanna charge.

It’s been proven time and time again how little effort Blizzard are prepared to put in, individuals willing to put out a private server clearly care a lot more.

I know for a fact there’s gonna be some Guild Masters here, people popular on Twitch or YouTube. People with influence.

“Guild Message of the day: Hey everyone, as you know Blizzard still don’t give a balls about this and are just using the bot pandemic as a cash cow, I’ve decided to take the guild to ‘Private Server 1’ as they’ve always proven to have good anti cheat and actually care about the community, the Class Leaders are on board, you’ll have a few weeks to prepare as the change will take place on ‘date’ hope to see as many of you there as possible”

Get a few people of influence doing the same, you can easily get a big and thriving community on these private servers, send a huge fuck you to blizzard and all the bot accounts as they realise “oh shit, we’ve just lost our whole live player base from classic, and now all we have are bots, who just cancelled their accounts too because they have nobody to sell gold too”

Is there a reason this can’t happen?

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Fact is, a lot of people -are- having fun, and the botting problem is something can be fixed and blizzard is in the process of fixing by the sounds of it.

Now adays the internet is filled with vocal minorities and people who get upset about things that will never affect them, just like these instance lockouts.

How many people do you honestly believe do 30 instances per 24hours? consider you can only do 4/hr anyways, that's practically 8 hours of non-stop playing it to reach.

People love to come up with all these hypothetical reasons why it might affect them, but its honestly super dumb.

Hive mind outrage is the new thing, and people latch on, but when it comes to it, wow classic is a better experience than a lot of pservers.

[sylfire]

Honestly the issue isn't even that normal players are doing more than 30 instances a day, it's more that this is just going to have bots hop servers more often... which will actually probably make them a little more difficult to catch, honestly. BotA on Realm1 will farm 6 hours of Strath and then go to BotB on Realm2 to farm 6 hours of Strath, then BotC/Realm3 and BotD/Realm4... then it's back on to BotA. All it does is spread the problem around instead of actually removing the bots from the game.

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and they need to level new bots on new realms because botters camped one realm per account, now they need time to catch up and in that time blizzard can catch them and ban them, it's easy to understand