Nostalrius Begins - Quality wow vanilla realm (1.12)

Lots of bots (especially in PVP)), and much more noticeable too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKUyeN4kKLo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zh--9K4fAw

http://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/34 ... f_gilneas/

How is it that Blizzard is such a successful company, yet allows rampant bot usage?

Because the botters pay them money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHeSHT2ZDnU

Refreshing reminder as to what else the reason to why I quit retail.

botters pay blizzard to use their services with out even needing blizzard to worry about content upgrades and shit like that, best part is if blizzard needs to increase their sales, all they need to do is go on a bot ban wave and subs+account creation+sales goes up.

HB is a great tool. allows me to play the game with out having to play the game.. makes total sense right?

I saw my first bot back in 2005, just before Blizz kicked TotalBiscuit off their forums when he pointed out how bad the problem was getting, Blizz loves bots and always has done. They boot a few every now and then to pretend they're doing something. Nostalrius has been more proactive than Blizz ever was.

thefatswede wrote:Because the botters pay them money.

This, Blizzard never ban anyone anymore, the worst you get is a 3 day suspension. As long as they get money, they don't care.

Xylon666Darkstar wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHeSHT2ZDnU

Refreshing reminder as to what else the reason to why I quit retail.

you're telling me that you quit retail because people bot the boring ass BGs to get gear to play the actual PvP

Zotose wrote:HB is a great tool. allows me to play the game with out having to play the game.. makes total sense right?

Honorbuddy saved me a lot of time, can vouch for it, great service

Blizzard's is much worse because they couldn't care less about it. So long as you pay them their monthly check, you can basically do whatever you want. There are sites loaded with auctions for accounts, items, gold, most of which is obtained by botting. You can openly broadcast your account or name in the auctions; it never get banned. Their WoW gold economy is in the toilet, has been for many years at this point, and they don't care at all. Gold is worth less than toilet paper on retail. Hell, I bet that there's still gold spammers. We were plagued with them everyday up until I quit. Blizzard couldn't be bothered to put ANY kind of restriction on chat channels, mailboxes, or messages. Nostalrius did this in a month. Blizzard couldn't do it in years. Nothing makes me want to quit a MMO more than logging in to see gold advertisement in my mailbox, receive it every day in messages, and seeing it spam my chat channels. I'm also inclined to eventually quit when the MMO does nothing about bots and hacks, which is why I quit GW 2 in less than 6 months. Its economy was ruined almost immediately after release. In addition to entire zergs of bots doing laps or camping events in mass, which they never did anything about up until I quit; we also had spam day and night in the game. Seeing teleport hackers everywhere in a new 2012 game is quite depressing. These players were mostly teleporting between resource nodes to mass farm, which were all bots too probably. Teleporting bot farmers. After cheating it from the game, they then advertise it in the game to sell it back to you. They're all vultures, parasites sucking the blood off the game, and I'm glad Nostalrius treats them as such. They should be banned, as many as possible, until they pack up and take their leeching elsewhere.