Are botters in BGs putting other botters at risk?

[Mordark]

Today as I was running BGs to gear up.
Every time there were at least 5 bots in "Isle of Conquest" that stood there mounted up before doing a suicide run to the middle.

That's not what concerns me. And a number of times there were 15 or more bots sitting there. (80% of the BGs)

What concerns me:

Spoiler

2:20
"15 bots srsly?"

3:45
"look at all them bots"
"lol"
"GG"
"and they all run straight to the middle"
"idc, most bots play better than humans anyways"

4:30
"take the docks"
(bots run to mid)
"[censored]ing bots..."

3 BGs the bots were highly noticed, 2 BGs they were shrugged off, and the rest had 5 or less bots in them so nobody cared.

The player base is taking a very strong notice of bots in BGs.


Say these botters get reported to Blizzard.

Here's my question:
Would those said reports, investigations, and bans lead to other botters being discovered?
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Are botters in BGs putting other botters at risk by letting their bots run like this?

P.S.
I understand the risk attached to botting and such and that the developers will make adjustments as need be to keep HB incognito, but the question still remains.

 

[gippy]

No more than the guys who dominate the ah with herbs and ores/other gathered mats, ninja peoples nodes as they try to gather, following in bot trains from node to ndoe in zones,have 20+ accounts running in and out of dungeons with names like jhsgjkgdsjg.

The only reason you see people complaining more whilst in bgs, is that its an enclosed space where people can voice their opinions to someone else. Where as other forms of botting they'd maybe just voice it in a private channel like a guild or even just in a ticket and say nothing else.

Its bandwagon behaviour, even if a few of those in your chat log had no clue about bots, they'd join in with the complaining to look cool

 

[Coolio99]

We had a thread on this that just got closed because people resorted to personal attacks but I agree. Even if you have no experience with botting and don't understand the nuances it is VERY easy to pick out the bots in BGs, as opposed to something like Kicks leveling profile which to me looks very human like (especially to most players who have little botting experience).

We also need to realize that when you're out leveling/questing you don't really pay attention to other players, unless they mess with you (ninja mobs, steal nodes, etc). That's why BGbuddy is such a liability for honorbuddy because it's the most visible bot (next to gatherbuddy...how many human players make instant 90 degree turns on a flying mount? But I digress) AND it directly affects players. People notice and care when it directly affects them and that's why banrates and public outrage are so high with bg bots.

I understand that bgbuddy probably brings in a lot of money for bossland but at some point I hope the devs make a decision to either deactivate or fix bgbuddy if my hunch/what I've heard from other non HB devs is correct in regards to the warden changes. I'm not saying hb is at risk but in the future it could come to that especially if blizz keeps paying attention.

 

[frosticus]

i never noticed bots until i started botting. my first thought was 'why the hell are these guys following me?!?!'

 

[Giwin]

since all botters do the same thing (same paths), you're putting them at risk just as much as the next botter.

 

[Mordark]

since all botters do the same thing (same paths), you're putting them at risk just as much as the next botter.

I don't see how/why. I'm not using a bg bot.

 

[lckwjl]

Botting in a bg using bg buddy is putting you at high risk.
I think it is possible that the shear number of people botting in bgs may lead to blizzard having to address the issue. Which could result in bad things.. then again it might just be the normal small push to kick botters to please the masses.