Is botting ruining the economy?Yes./end article
"Is Botting Ruining the Economy?" Are we still asking this? Yes ofc it ruins the economy for most people. Because of bots all raw gold farms were nerfed. Because of bots gathering professions are not viable method of making gold excluding few weeks at a start of expansion/major patch. Casual players are struggling for gold. I know world quest exist but unless you run them on multiple alts they barely yield enough gold to participate in m+/raid for repairs alone. Im sure region AH didnt help gathering as well but its mostly bots. Every time i go wm on in zaralek i can see dozens of them swarming around a node. Its not difficult to ban them (if someone wants to).
Are we at the point now where we're recommending disenchanting AH purchases as a means to gold-making?Assuming you can find items that D/E for more than their sale price, that amounts to a very, very, very measly amount of gold (or even just silver) per D/E. That is not a viable goldmaking strategy at all.I also can't really support using TSM for much of anything anymore. Is it still being developed? I guess it is perhaps? But is it really worth using an addon that loves to constantly spam your screen with a giant block box demanding you report errors to TSM devs? No, it isn't, especially when you're in the middle of a key or arena and now half of your screen is blocked by a box that constantly spams itself with no option to prevent it from popping up at all.
Is "Botting" ruining the economy?No... 😶 Are "Human Beings" who actually set up and use those "Bots" ruining the economy?YES! 😠Don't blame the bots, blame the baddies who use them. 😑
At first glance the idea will probably make people want to throw up, but I wonder if a tiered subscription model could help combat botting, where you pay for a daily playtime limit. If you want to play 14 hours per day then you pay more money/gold than someone who only needs 2 hours per day. This would force the bots to all pay the maximum rate to be able to continue to farm and means that the limit to what each account can contribute to the economy is balanced a bit more around what it costs the account holder. Like a human player could also farm for 12 hours and put the same amount of mats on the AH in that time as a bot - but they probably won't and instead can spend less on their subscription than the bots do. IDK if bots play 24/7 (surely that would be an immediate tipoff that its not a human) but realistically no human needs a 24 hour per day subscription (except for the occasional marathon session) so the maximum subscription tier could be like 18 hours or something which might also limit bots access to the game.
Retail economy has been dead for years. It's just whales reselling the same stuff over and over. There are hundrets of bots flying around at all times.People just buy tokens if they want to fully gear an alt. Noone in their right mind is going to compete with bots. You see more and more people run around without enchants or any crafted gear because they cba to keep up with the threadmill anymore.
i dont think bots are running the economy, it took a while to set up 15 accounts but after that the thing kinda run on its own.
I don’t think this really matters, the games old and bound to phase out on the next 3-5 years. The presence of bots seems to aid the “casual player”. Without casual players the game would be dead. Even on the popular servers its 24/7 GDKP runs. If you want to change something ban the GDKP runs they fuel the gold farmers.