Well as MiRai (I think that was who) mentioned removing /follow probably wasn't what killed the bots, it was the patch. Every patch kills the bots and they have to update their software to get things working again.
The LFD 5% buff helps the PvE boxers, I am hoping they did that on purpose to ease some of our anger and hoping its not a bug they will remove.
People just keep leaving out important details.Originally Posted by muffe
Not I, but someone mentioned it (I'm too lazy to look for it).
This exactly.
Anybody on the software dev side knows this happens. Not always but it does happen and 5.2 was no exception. 5.2 broke a lot of them.
They disabled follow due to the fact they cant find another way into getting rid of all the botting programs, It was a easy way out. I am assuming they took a while to do this because they did not want to wreck everyone elses fun Like us multiboxers.
But then they had to since bots rule BG's I remember I used to see about 5-10 botters per a bg, it was nuts.
But for the extreme botting software they will still control wow and its market.
I have seen bots use the /follow command. They would follow me and I would scrape them off on something. In AV for a weekend I saw the same bots (7 or 8) were following one of the bots and would get stuck at the Horde Base entrance and run around in circles. Following each other. They could easily implement a follow system that would allow boxers to follow but not bots. I can speculate that when they were discussing this, they got the idea that a lot of people hate boxers in BGs so they took the easier way out and threw us out with the bath water.
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I'm no programmer; but, from what I gather from reading what programmers are saying, killing /follow will only affect a group of bots that are now being used but will have little to no effect on other available bots. I imagine a botter, whether farming gold, gear or whatever, wouldn't let killing /follow stop them from botting if there is a program that will still work. I just think Blizz may have temporarily slowed the botting problem but not for long, while it completely ruined boxing bgs. It just seems that there is a better solution.
It is a waste to ruin such an incredibly fun style of play that is so seamless that it is almost as if the game was designed to be boxed.
Here's a tip for a programmer who wants to create the next generation MMO. Make a game where you level, but as you level, you gain toons as well as gear and strength. Then everyone can box and the dynamics would be incredible. Talk about an addictive game. It would completely overshadow WoW.
Last edited by MiRai : 03-13-2013 at 07:43 PM Reason: Merged
According to their statement it wasn't there intent nor their expectation to kill all bots, just the basic ones. While I completely reject botting, having an sophisticated bot in your team doesn't hurt your gaming experience/winning chances as much as having a bot who just is just following everyone on his mount (I've actually been owned by a bot in a 1v1 when I was playing an alt, they have a pretty good combat AI). And the /follow bots are the most obvious ones as well. As said before, there are limitations to what they both can scan and are allowed to scan on a player his computer (depending on legal privacy matters). There is simply not a 1 stop go all solution to weed out botting, it will be a never-ending fight. And the bots will only become more and more advanced / smarter. Really, if someone with the skills puts his mind and time to it, 10 bots will be able to take world first heroic kills, since they in theory will never fail as opposed to humans.
Fun for the boxer, not so much fun for the one on the receiving end ...
Everything that is fun in life is either bad for your health, immoral or illegal!
Follow will come back to BG's give it a little time. Since they will see that it did not effect many people. I am still going to keep playing and level my toons while we wait and see what they are doing.
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