wow The Bot Report: Druid Stigma, Flyhacking Bot Dealt With, New Player Perspectives and More

[Starym 3,800]

 

Here we are with another bot report and this time we get to check out both some wide-ranging issues that come as a result of the biggest WoW plague, as well as see some creative ways to mess with the bots and their evil ways!

First off we get to see a really damaging aspect, as new players are completely confused as to what's going on, and when they find out what those things are their view of the game definitely goes down:

And directly related to the above, since bots are 99.999% Druids, the entire class is getting a bad rap, as players are just starting to associate it with botting - especially when multiboxers are involved.

And then it's on to the more fun part of the bot report, as we get to see some extermination in action, with this flyhacking bot getting pretty solidly dominated in Classic:

When you think about it, the bots being just AI makes them very much like mobs in the game, so managing to kill them and shut them down for longer periods of time is just as valid/fun an activity as playing the rest of the game! Time to get some raids and exterminate!

Another successful way to take them down works outside PvP enabled players as well, with the now standard toy-usage where they would click for a herb spawn method working really well:

And finally, the bot in its natural habitat:

[Yojiro 30]

I stopped reporting or caring about bots ever since I received a warning during the WotlK/Cataclysm era.

There used to be an endless stream of hunter bots going into Botanica and back to the small camp to sell their loot, I used to stand on the platform and kill them so they'd fall into the void and have to spirit res, eventually I received a warning from Blizzard claiming that I was "Exploiting bots for personal gain", they said that because I received a pathetic amount of honor every time a bot died I was exploiting them for honor gains and that they would take action if I kept doing so, ever since then I've ignored bots.

Blizzard doesn't seem to care all that much so why should I?

[SidonisAntares 290]

I don't worry about getting reported when herbing on my Druid, I don't move in the same erratic, twitching manner they do that indicates automation, and even if I get reported Blizz won't see any botting evidence.