bots flooding bg's

Heya Cornpops,

04/14/2011 04:42 AMPosted by Cornpops

Why can't "Insert color" just go into random bg's and just ban the bots in the games. 90% of all bg's have atleast 1-2 bots in them. if we the players can tell who the bots are in bg's i am sure "insert color" can also...

We actually have been doing something about it and your reports are helping us with this process. We will not announce or let you know what the outcome is, but we can assure you something is being done.

As Bashiok has also stated, what we have been working on here:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2228415417?page=1#2

03/15/2011 06:17 PMPosted by Bashiok

We’re in the process of stepping up our detection and tracking to log and action players that are botting, or habitually AFKing in the Battlegrounds. We’ll be taking aggressive action and removing earned items, Honor Points, and ultimately suspending or even banning accounts of those that are found to be botting or habitually AFKing. It’s a sophisticated level of monitoring we’re undertaking. No one actively playing in the Battlegrounds normally should be concerned that they’ll be actioned.

We actually have been doing something about it and your reports are helping us with this process. We will not announce or let you know what the outcome is, but we can assure you something is being done.

I for one am flabbergasted.

As a member of a frustrated player community, I have to ask, why not?

That is, why not provide feedback? As much as any particular answer, simple, honest, feedback is what is desired. Players are frustrated about battlegrounds. Why not provide them with information about ongoing efforts? Why not tell us when you have made improvements. Then you could ask us to compare our battleground experiences and see for ourselves what improvements have been made.

For the life of me, I really don't understand how y'all decide on your policies, nor can I understand how you don't see how frustrating they can be.

Sincerely,

Pendergrass

04/14/2011 11:44 AMPosted by Danvers

Because when they did, the people who made the bots could figure out how they were discovered, and plan against it for the next iteration.

▲▲ I believe Danvers, said it best. If we made announcements of our actions, bots will already start working on their next plan to circumvent it. Not to mention, that we never provide information on the actions that have been applied to other accounts or closures on any account in the past.

You always just read about it on the forum from the multiple players that comes back asking, "Why was my account banned?"...

As a fellow Pvp'r Pendergrass, I can truly understand your frustrations in this matter, since I Pvp 7 days a week. It takes time for us to do this, a simple click use on the Afk report feature goes along way, even if they are using a smart bot to avoid the Idle debuff. We still receive these reports and they are dealt with, it may not be right away and they might get away with it for now, but that is short lived.