Apparently, bot-run accounts began mass reporting him for "abusive chat", causing the reporting system to mute Loknar's account for 24 hours. In a particularly cruel twist, it seems Loknar's account was temporarily muted by Blizzard following the march. Led by a player named Loknar, over 50 people allegedly took part in a protest through Orgrimmar against bots, and the grossly-inflated loot they were listing on the in-game auction house.
Wired suggests that the problem had grown so bad that some players had taken to the virtual streets to express their frustration. A report from Wired suggests that, for the last few months, end-game zones have been swarming with "clusters of bot-driven accounts", rotating through valuable monster locations with a brutal efficiency.īesides robbing human players of valuable loot, it's also had a destabilising effect on the in-game economy - pumping artificially-earned gold into the world, flooding markets with copious amounts of supposedly "rare" items. Naturally, this leaves plenty of players looking for ways to skip the grind. If endgame World Of Warcraft is a demanding hobby these days, Classic may as well be a full-time job. Following a particularly nasty few months of scripted heroes, game-breaking exploits and a parade of Orcs marching against cheaters, this month saw the developers wipe the realms clean of over 74,000 accounts suspected of using bots to give them an edge over their human counterparts. Harking back to the days when MMOs required a hell of a lotta grind, Blizzard's throwback MMO is filled with folk looking for an easy out. World Of Warcraft Classic has a bot problem.