WoW Classic has been suffering from a bot problem for months. Many players are particularly bothered by the fact that characters who have been reported multiple times are still walking through Azeroth with impunity. With the latest actions, the developers have now exacerbated the bad mood within the community. With the new measure, a daily instance limit, Blizzard primarily punishes all fair players, and that can’t be it.
Blizzard and the bots in WoW Classic – a never-ending drama in far too many acts. A few weeks ago, with the “Black Lotus” hotfix, the developers implemented what I believe to be the right measure to make it impossible for bot users to dominate the Lotus market at will from now on.
Learn More: Black Lotus Hotfix Was Spot On – Thumbs Up Blizz!
With other measures and decisions, however, those responsible did not exactly cover themselves with glory. Let ‘s just take the introduction of the WoW brand in China , thanks to which the local gold prices went down so much that “gold for money” trading there is hardly worthwhile anymore. The result: In the following weeks and months, the number of bots on many US and EU servers is said to have increased noticeably. Well fine!
But it’s also annoying that Blizzard’s (automated?!) ban system is frustratingly unreliable . Over the past several weeks, we’ve had multiple reports of Classic players receiving ban penalties despite not violating Blizzard’s End User License Agreement. Doubly annoying: These cases were often only checked when those affected kicked up a lot of dust about the case on community platforms. The penalties were then lifted again, but the realization remains that Blizzard’s system reacts prematurely as soon as large sums of gold change hands.
At the same time, numerous players have been complaining for months in the forums and on Reddit that clearly recognizable bot users can continue to roam through Azeroth with impunity, despite multiple reports. Some YouTubers like WillE have published various videos during this time in which they show the exact processes of the bots and their distribution on different WoW Classic realms. How can it be that Blizzard does not swing the ban hammer here despite the reports and evidence?
A slap in the face to the WoW community
Blizzard’s recent actions seem all the more mocking to me . There is a post from Community Manager Thyvene that Blizzard uses to thank the community for reporting so far and to encourage us to continue reporting bots. But why should we do that if it obviously doesn’t help? And why don’t the developers take this opportunity to explain to us why many of our reports have had no effect so far? Blizzard missed an opportunity here and instead put a meaningless PR phrase in front of our noses.
What I find even worse, however, is the new instance limit. Because with this measure, the Blizzard developers are primarily punishing the fair WoW Classic players who occasionally tear down 30+ dungeon IDs a day on their account. Incidentally, I am not affected by this. After a few visits to Dire Maul East, my pockets are full and I need to get some fresh air again. I’m also not the type of player who lets twinks “boost” to level 60 in a few days.
But there are several affected people in my environment who like to drag twinks from the guild through dungeons again and again on their days off (or let their own twinks do it), then do umpteen farm rounds in instances because farming in the open world is torture due to the high number of players, and then in the evenings they clean the currently available raid instances. They then very quickly hit the new dungeon limit across all characters on the account. Aggravating! And when I look at Reddit and the forums, it affects many other Classic players as well.
At the same time, this measure will not eliminate the bot problem from my point of view. If you use bots on a large scale, you already have several accounts. If necessary, you simply create one, two, three more accesses. Then the ruble will (continue to) roll with the bot users, with Blizzard (thanks to the additional subscriptions), and we fair players hold the arse card in our hands.
Sad side note: Blizzard previously had a daily instance limit for WoW (buy now) announced – as part of the Evil patch notes for patch 1.11 that were part of the 2006 April Fool’s joke.
What is WoW Classic?
World of Warcraft Classic is a true recreation of the original WoW as you know it from 2006. All parts of the game – from combat mechanics and talent trees to character models and zones – have been recreated, contributing to the authentic experience.
Getting Started
All players with an active World of Warcraft subscription or game time on their accounts have access toWoW Classic at no additional cost.
- Open the Blizzard Battle.net Desktop App and select World of Warcraft from the menu.
- Select World of Warcraft Classic from the Version menu. If you have more than one World of Warcraft account, you’ll see a second Account drop-down list. In this column, select the active account you want to play with.
- Click the Install button. The progress bar will tell you when your game is ready to play.
- Click the Play button when the installation is complete.
You will need to select the realm you want to play on from several different realm types. Make sure you choose the same realm as your friends – in World of Warcraft Classic, you can only group with characters that are on the same realm as you!
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