The players’ concern is quite clear: the new restrictions will not help but will only lead to bots creating characters on multiple realms. Once they reach the instance limit on one realm, they simply switch realms and continue.
What do you think of Blizzard’s solution? A good decision, April Fool’s joke or not? Or can this not be the answer to bots?
Some, like AlphaTangoFoxtrt, are really angry and explain:
And don’t forget that it only counts per realm. So all the bots have to do is log from realm to realm. This fixes nothing and only punishes the players.
The players’ concern is quite clear: the new restrictions will not help but will only lead to bots creating characters on multiple realms. Once they reach the instance limit on one realm, they simply switch realms and continue.
What do you think of Blizzard’s solution? A good decision, April Fool’s joke or not? Or can this not be the answer to bots?
Blizzard’s approach against bots in WoW Classic is a joke – and literally so. It actually comes from old “April, April” patch notes.
The developers of World of Warcraft Classic have finally taken action against the increasing number of bots and imposed a restriction on them. A maximum of 30 instances can now be accessed per account per day.
However, some players do not find Blizzard’s solution funny at all, as it was actually an April Fool’s joke from 2006.
What was that April Fool’s joke? In the past, Blizzard regularly published “fake patch notes” on April 1st. These contained changes that never made it into the game and were meant to fool players. One of these changes from 2006 reads as follows:
With the many improvements made in the endgame dungeons in the last patch, we have decided that it is necessary to limit the number of dungeons a player can visit per day.
This is done to prevent the economy from being flooded with valuable items and to ensure that players do not earn too much gold in a time period that we consider an appropriate playtime. We understand that many players enjoy their repeated visits to their favorite dungeons, which is why we designed these limits to be as non-restrictive as possible.
Each character on a player’s account can visit the same dungeon up to three times per day and a maximum of 5 dungeons within a 24-hour cycle. Remember that each character on your account is counted individually. With eight characters, that’s a maximum of 40 dungeons per day!
That is quite close to the instance limit that Blizzard has introduced today in WoW Classic to deter bots and cheaters.
Here are the differences: Unlike the April Fool’s joke from 2006, the instance limit is not the same. In reality, the limit of 30 instances applies to all characters of an account on the same realm. You can therefore visit up to 30 instances with a single character, and not just 5, as the April Fool’s joke had suggested.
This is how players react: In the WoW Classic subreddit, this find is being discussed vigorously. While some are amused that Blizzard has implemented an April Fool’s joke as an actual solution, many players are irritated. They write things like:
HellenKellersMonocle says: “I don’t know whether to laugh, cry, or be angry about this.”
Some, like AlphaTangoFoxtrt, are really angry and explain:
And don’t forget that it only counts per realm. So all the bots have to do is log from realm to realm. This fixes nothing and only punishes the players.
The players’ concern is quite clear: the new restrictions will not help but will only lead to bots creating characters on multiple realms. Once they reach the instance limit on one realm, they simply switch realms and continue.
What do you think of Blizzard’s solution? A good decision, April Fool’s joke or not? Or can this not be the answer to bots?
