Follow In Battlegrounds Broken After 5.2

[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.

[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