World of Warcraft Battleground Bots - How to identify bots & how they affect stealth classes

Created this video to outline the current state of World of Warcraft Battlegrounds. Bots have bypassed the Warden system in place by WoW and are running rampant. It seems that people don't seem to understand just how complex bots have become so in this video I give some key identifiers to help you know the difference between a bot and a real player. I also outline how some of the bots that auto-follow teammates can severely affect the gameplay of stealth classes. I hope this video convinces the community to understand just how bad the problem is right now & urges the developers at Blizzard to take this issue seriously. Personally I don't enjoy investing time in developing characters while being passed in levels by botting software. On top of that, half of my battlegrounds don't feel like an MMO experience anymore. They are more like a mix of humans versus bots. If I want PvE in Warcraft there are far more challenging experiences available compared to these repetitious, predictable BG bots. I play the Battlegrounds for PvP and this is not what the current state of World of Warcraft is offering in Battlegrounds.

Follow the thread on the official forums:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=24702152833&sid=1

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Wow
• World of Warcraft
• Bots
• Battleground
• Identify
• Stealth
• Arathi Basin
• Warsong Gulch
• WSG
• AB
• Anxient
• Druid
• PvP
• PvE

[CapCarell]

Because of this video, I've started to notice and successfully report bots. I appreciate the time you took to make this video and spread the word.

Keep up the good work!

[PlayerVersusPlayer]

@CapCarell Cheers, I appreciate it. Spread the video & keep up the good fight.

[joosbawks]

the whole video i felt like you were uncovering some intense conspiracy. it was awesome.

[Esquilaxx]

This vid is fucking depressing. It's so true, I know a guy who's used an advanced bot every night when he sleeps for over 2 years, and hasn't and probably never will be banned.

P.S. your voice is sexy.

[MMOinGAMEcom]

32 people are using bots and dislike thsi video cause they got reportet because of it^^

[silowhore]

this must be a shit bot, pirox does not follow people and that's the one everyone uses.....well up until a month ago

[KukaPedersen]

Bllizzard should really fix this. Hate bots, and it ruins the game for all others when maybe one is using these sh"t bots. Blizzard is becoming a golddigger, they are not gonna fix it...

[ILove2Bot]

@derekmorris89 Yeah, it's sad that people feel the need to bot BGs. Although having said that, it probably isn't a WoW-loving player behind that bot, it's usually a company or individual who farms honor for a fee. I know this because I used to farm gold with bots when it was worth doing. The Chinese have dragged the gold prices into the basement. I do still enjoy running my AH bot, but when I see a BG bot, I report them with extreme prejudice...lol.

[TheSmokey2312]

@13ecky1

Wow is getting boring vanilla was the best time its fucking boring to grind the full set you self i would never grind in bg i use my bot

[derekmorris89]

@hpychf You obviously miss the point. Bots ruin PvP more then noobs do. If you have bots on your team, then you're more likely to lose the game then win. Grow up...

[hpychf]

Wow, aren't you a boring cunt... Who gives a fuck if people bot? They bot for a reason LOL. Bad retards who can't pvp ruin BG's. YOu don't see anyone botting in rated LOL

[13ecky1]

Least Runescape did something about their bots.



[Shinykangaroo]

blizzard dont care, they only care for money.

[WDrSharkon]

This is really eye-opening. I had no idea bots could pull off such complex behavior. Guess I'm gonna be issuing lot more reports.