Blizzard taking your shit

[Venture]

In our continued efforts to support fair gameplay in World of Warcraft and to provide a positive experience for players, we are currently taking steps to ensure fair and enjoyable competition in the Battlegrounds. Starting immediately, we will be issuing warnings and penalties, including suspensions and the removal of Honor points and recently acquired Honor rewards, for non-participation in Battleground games.

We are taking action against thousands of accounts immediately, and will continue to monitor these situations and regularly take action against violators. If you encounter a player in a Battleground who is intentionally not participating in the battle for an extended period of time, please help us track the situation and report the player as AFK. For information on how to complete an in-game AFK report, please go here: (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/pvp/batt ... /info.html). All reports will be thoroughly investigated, and corrective action will only be taken if the violation is confirmed.

Thank you for your support and best of luck to you in all of your games in the Battlegrounds!

Basically this became a rampant problem, because nowadays you can get gear from PVP Battlegrounds that's almost as good as gear 10 and 25-man raiders can acquire early on, and sometimes as good or better. You play Alterac Valley, a 40 on 40 battleground, and 20 people on each side would just be AFK in the cave, using scripts to keep their characters from being disconnected after being AFK for more then 10 minutes. People would run bots that would auto-queue them into a battleground, then idle them until it ended, which meant they could do zip towards the outcome of the battle, and still get the full reward of bonus points and marks to spend while everyone else did the work for them.

One guy openly admitted already he lost 50,000 Honor points, which is about 150 games, or at least 40 hours of Alterac Valley, and all the gear he had accumulated, plus all the gems and enchantments he had placed on them, which adds up to a decent amount of money at 70.

I could imagine if SE ever did something like this to the botters of FFXI, they won't, but work with me here...how many Ridills and Adaman Hauberks would go bye-bye. Lawl, hilarity ensues!

[izembo]

thats not really comparable to anything on ffxi, kings isnt anything like battleground rewards <_< and yea afk'ers sucked bad there.

[Exoduso]

Your FFXI comparison made no sense.

[Lockecole7]

Both people acquired the items via using a script/bot in order to achieve their item. They lost their items because they gained them in an illegal way according to the ToS, just as botters in FFXI would. How is that not a valid comparison? Geez, I understand the FFXI-fanboyism but come on, how can you not see the relation.

[Charismatic]

It made enough sense to me, it's not the same thing, but I get what he's trying to say.

It's not the same situation, but imagine if SE went after people they found to be/have been botters and took away the rewards from their kills. (even though just banning them takes it all away too, and is the way I'd do things most likely)

[izembo]

you can afk without a script and get the stuff taken too, its for general purpose afk, not only with a script. and the rewards are two completely different ways of obtaining them. they are nothing alike.

[Exoduso]

You can't afk with a script and get a Ridill.

and ffxi fanboyism? hardly. I played both games (and quit both over 2 years ago), the comparison is just dull because you CAN do those things in WoW (or you could until now..) and in FFXI the most you can do is bot in order to claim an enemy, which may or may not give you what you want.

Even if SE were cracking down on the botters, they wouldn't be able to take Ridills and ebodies away.

[Correction]

The more apt comparison would be to remove every in-game item and piece of gil that was botted, farmed or stolen by a chinese farmer somewhere in FFXI. So far SE has only managed to remove gil and not items.

AFKers in WoW battlegrounds are crushing any fun they used to produce for people, because the rewards were improved without enforcing actual participation. So for now they're trying the band-aid approach of taking away the rewards from people they catch exploiting the loopholes.

[Cheerios]

I stopped botting the second I read the sticky on the general boards. Thanks for the gear, though

[Koga]

Solution: Stop playing alliance.
Horde still has problems but not as bad.

[aurik]

cool, a ffxi vs wow topic.