Follow In Battlegrounds Broken After 5.2

[zenga]

Trying to prove your point by stating that the most sophisticated bot does not use /follow is plain dumb.

We disabled /follow from use in battlegrounds to curb some of the most basic types of bots that use the command.

There were enough bots around in bg's who would just /follow people. Rather than spending man hours on those reports, they can easily kill those 'basic' bots by disabling follow. The fact that they consider re-enabling it in arena is a concession towards multiboxers. They have always said that they tolerate multiboxing, but are not supporting it. which basically meant until they change something that makes it no longer possible (like disabling follow in bgs).

The vast amount of conspiracy theories and fallacies is amazing in this thread. I was under the impression that the multiboxing community here was a bit more mature and intelligent.

[Meathead]

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.

[blast3r]

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.

[Fat Tire]

I just got home from work so i'll check as soon as tich is up.

Edit: still no.

I haven't gotten a chance to play and probably wont for a few days.

If you could keep checking everyday it would be appreciated. I got a feeling if and when they revert the follow change for arena it probably wont be announced.

[heyaz]

I haven't gotten a chance to play and probably wont for a few days.

If you could keep checking everyday it would be appreciated. I got a feeling if and when they revert the follow change for arena it probably wont be announced.

Still does not work as of 13:15 EST

[Fat Tire]

Still does not work as of 13:15 EST

thank you.

[heyaz]

Trying to prove your point by stating that the most sophisticated bot does not use /follow is plain dumb.

We disabled /follow from use in battlegrounds to curb some of the most basic types of bots that use the command.

There were enough bots around in bg's who would just /follow people. Rather than spending man hours on those reports, they can easily kill those 'basic' bots by disabling follow. The fact that they consider re-enabling it in arena is a concession towards multiboxers. They have always said that they tolerate multiboxing, but are not supporting it. which basically meant until they change something that makes it no longer possible (like disabling follow in bgs).

The vast amount of conspiracy theories and fallacies is amazing in this thread. I was under the impression that the multiboxing community here was a bit more mature and intelligent.

They killed a lot more bots than I thought they would, looking at all the people stuck at the entrance over AV weekend. Those were also the harder to detect bots (via client/server side methods); paradoxically the easiest ones to completely disable immediately.

I did a little research and it did some damage to the more sophisticated bots, and minor damage to the most sophisticated bots, but they worked around it quickly. Apparently they used /follow in some situations when necessary to, I guess, normalize things where the pathing got off.

It only made a small difference though. They knew from the start it only helped botting and RAF/LFR/etc. followers but the collateral damage to multiboxing? Acceptable risk.

I'm trying not to go to either extreme here, which is pretty common on all the posts - e.g. this was only to kill mutliboxers and did nothing to bots, or that this was really for bots and multiboxing was only a side effect. They killed some bots and annoying leachers. They crippled multiboxing in BGs too. They did both.

[muffe]

Rest in peace multiboxing

[JohnGabriel]

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.

[MiRai]

Rest in peace multiboxing battlegrounds in World of Warcraft

People just keep leaving out important details.

Well as MiRai (I think that was who) mentioned removing /follow probably wasn't what killed the bots,

Not I, but someone mentioned it (I'm too lazy to look for it).