Quote Originally Posted by MadMilitia View Post
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I'll hold true to my thoughts on it. When you have a large section of the playerbase botting the content, the content needs to go. There is no better way to tell a developer how much you hate a piece of content than to bot it.
It's not the content that makes people use bots, it's a risk/reward thing. They should either remove the reward (which would make playing BGs useless for any other purpose then PvP) or increase the risk involved in botting.

Since they can't do the first, because people like to be rewarded, and playing without gaining anything would suck. They should try do accomplish the latter (which is way harder, and more expensive.)

By removing /follow from BGs all they did is make it slightly harder for some bots to operate, which, instead of combatting botting, will only force people to use better software, which will make the bots harder to detect and combat in the future. Like in real live, when you prohibit something, you're punishing honest folk, and pushing offenders to be more creative and elusive.

Detecting bots is probably quite hard to do (involves a lot of manual work), but I think that in the end, it's the only thing they can (and should) do. I think that another problem here is that they basically removed the community feeling that individual servers had in the past. You can now just bot or buy gold at virtually no risk at all, where in the past, people got identified as cheaters by the community, making it hardder for them to join guilds and enjoy content. Nowadays you can do just about anything without ever speaking to anyone on your srever.

Anyway, long story short. I think that the follow nerf is not going to combat bots at all in the long run, and I hope Blizzard will add /follow back in when they realize this.