Blizzard loses a round in the fight against botting

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3-21-2008 @ 3:42PM

Makari said...

@Matt

I fail to see why people don't realize that allowing botting is actually a defense against hackers / identity theft. If you allowed botting then the farmers wouldn't NEED to steal your info because they could just turn on their computer (or two, or nine) and start a program to gather stuff to sell on the AH or whatever.

Because the 'botting' functions have been largely disabled (which kills the use of them for a lot of potentially useful things such as a macro that just lets you defend yourself if attacked because you had to go AFK) now the farmers are trying to find other 'quick' methods of grinding the same items.

People are lazy. As noted above, we look for easy solutions so if there is an easy solution built directly into the game why would they go through all the time and potential legal trouble to do the same thing?

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