In the fantasy MMORPG World of Warcraft, the bots are rampant, especially in PvP and here in the battleground “The Eye of the Storm.”
It is no longer a secret or a taboo, but something that has become normalized in World of Warcraft: PvP is crawling with bots.
What caused outrage in a fresh MMORPG like The Elder Scrolls Online, ArcheAge, or WildStar last year, and was seen as a clear sign that the developers are incompetent, has somehow become the norm for WoW over the years.
But a blatant example like in this video is also rare. A YouTuber is in “The Eye of the Storm” in World of Warcraft, until he notices the strange behavior of fellow players and opponents…
Will a bot-versus-bot tournament be announced soon?
The assumption that the players may all be users of a very specific bot, which is the most widespread in the scene, is notably dismissed in a comment under the video by one of the developers of this bot, who finds it dishonorable. His bot is not that obvious, it even attacks players on a mount, it must be a competing product…
Perhaps soon there will be the first pure bot battlegrounds in World of Warcraft – or do they already exist and no one is left to report it? Maybe we could even turn it into a tournament? After all, the best programs compete against each other in chess to determine the winner.
The causes run deeper
And now seriously: The PvP in World of Warcraft has had a design problem for a long time, or at least it is perceived that way. The “exciting” arena matches and rated battlegrounds are accepted by players. The way there, in the eyes of many, involves more or less tedious grinding in “older” battlegrounds that no longer excite anyone.
Or players who have nothing to do with PvP go in to complete specific achievements.
The PvP, especially in battlegrounds, is a topic that Blizzard should seriously reconsider. In today’s game design, it is assumed that a bot problem cannot be solved with the banhammer but rather through design decisions, as bots indicate that there are lucrative parts of the game that can be performed without any spirit and thus also without any fun.
In PvE, the famous mining bots, which used to endlessly circle the world until they spotted a vein, have been rendered obsolete with some changes. In PvP, however, it seems not yet. And when you look at it that way, the thought comes to mind: They’re riding again.
