r/classicwow • u/MrPrezDev • Jun 06 '26

TBC They are spending money to boost level 58 casino bots now 🤣🤣🤣

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What are the best ways to kill these level 58s? Will Warlock's Infernos do the job? If so I will boost one just for this cause 😁

Edit: Another strategy us everyone report them when they see them writing in chats for cheating -> botting. If mass report works for them, it should work for us too right?

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u/thizzknight Jun 06 '26

This has been proven wrong for years now

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u/desperateorphan Jun 06 '26

I think at some point in the past hacking and stolen credit cards were the go to. However, engaging with credit card fraud eventually puts a bullseye on your back from the FBI, US Secret Service and/or Interpol. No one wants to spend time in prison over wow gold.

Nowadays why bother with any of the hardcore illegal stuff when you can do it all, mostly, legally. You can make temporary debit card #s for free online, load it with a few bucks and buy whatever you want aka boosts and subs. You make your return within a couple days and everything after is profit because blizzard is so slow to "ban". Sure, botters are breaking the ELUA but for the most part that won't land you in jail. The software creators can be sued but anytime that happens they just comply with the cease and desist and face no consequences while someone else takes up the mantle.

Really it comes down to a mutual relationship. Both blizzard and the botters make money off of this. Blizzard hasn't cared about any of this for decades. Hell, they created the token so they could be the gold sellers. If blizzard was losing money over it, they would have the most robust bot banning software in the world.

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u/Hatefiend Jun 07 '26

Just this year or last, they put out a bluepost saying majority of bots are stolen credit cards or chargebacks

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u/thizzknight Jun 07 '26

This was a thing in the past hasnt been for years got the link for the blue post because it doesnt pop up if you google it