Follow In Battlegrounds Broken After 5.2

[Owltoid]

No. That would not accomplish anything good.

Wat.

I think an acceptable policy is to discuss things that are against EULA/TOS for games that do not allow multiboxing. GW2 for example. At the moment, Blizzard does allow multiboxing so it would not be eligible for private server discussion, but it would be getting close.

[EaTCarbS]

I'll just take the ban from this forum i guess.

Knows its against the forums rules.
Posts anyways.

[Fat Tire]

We disabled /follow from use in battlegrounds to curb some of the most basic types of bots that use the command. We chose not to communicate it beforehand in attempts to catch as many bots unaware as possible. Removing /follow in battlegrounds is one small change we can make immediately to stop a number of bots, and those that choose to transition to more overt botting methods will have a much higher chance of being caught and banned.

We did consider those who use /follow for other reasons, including multiboxing, before making the change. Multiboxing in battlegrounds has been a long-fought battle within the community, as the effect of multiboxers in those situations is considered unfavorable by many. When we were looking to make a change to disable a command used by bots, which would benefit the game as a whole, we were ok with it also resulting in multiboxing in battlegrounds also going away due to the poor experience it can create for others.

Right now /follow is also disabled in Arenas, but we’re looking to revert that change as bots don’t typically exist in Arenas, and multiboxing in that kind of pre-determined group environment doesn’t tend to be as disruptive.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/to...775?page=6#104

[MiRai]

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/to...775?page=6#104

Added thread to main post.

[Narij]

So what has long been thought is now proven true. complaining on the forums does get results.

Edit: so I guess this means the days of ganking, crz, and auction house control will be coming to an end.

[Chivalrous]

Judging from that post they probably won't disable /follow all together. So the PvE boxers might be left alone... Maybe not forever, but.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Well at least that limits it to battle grounds and give some hope that they would be open to alternate suggestions as to boxing in BG's.

So what has long been thought is now proven true. complaining on the forums does get results.

Well there have been SO MANY complaints that what else can they do.

And you have to agree that the complaints are not without any substance, boxers are in fact overpowered and underpowered.


On the other hand getting rid of "basic bots" lol, they cant do anything to get rid of bots cept sue the bot software company which they are doing.

[Rosebud]

Blue post claims it is because of botting but follows it up with how they are improving the game for others by getting rid of multiboxing. I think they took all day to read the forums and see all the boxing hate posts only to swoop in and be the hero to the pitch-fork carrying mob. They probably consider the loss worth it or that the canceling threats are just threats. I'm not sure. One has to wonder if they planned to break it all along with his explanation of how it is good for the community.

[Acidburning]

my game cards just ran out the other day too, and I have been lazy getting to Best Buy.

as someone else suggested, let /follow work within the battle.net account. I realize that would not work with the community of boxers 9+, at least it would be a reasonable compromise.

I guess 5.2 is the real end to wow for me. I have canceled a few times and taken breaks, but always nice to come back when I was ready. To be forced out? I was 2boxing in vanilla. This change is 8 years too late blizzard. Poor, poor, poor decision.

acid

[flux1]

To me that blue post says "We have no idea how to stop the bot problem, so we are throwing whatever we can think of at the wall to see if it sicks. If you all get caught in the crossfire, we don't care because people complain about boxing all the time. If we put /follow back in for arenas will you shut up and leave us alone?" Yet as I've seen from posts on other forums, the bot problem is just as bad as ever after this change. As I said before, I never did much PVP, but I still won't give this company any more money after this. Sneaking it in without notice then dismissing complaints from the boxer's side as its easier than to listen to people keep complaining is rather pathetic. "We tolerate it. For now" indeed.