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The Reason for Botting?

fortis931

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I began to ask myself while reflecting on all the years I've played WoW from early beta up to now, what really influenced me to try botting and what kept me continuing my botting career on WoW.

I thought I'd ask other like minded people for their own experience and opinions about this issue.

For me personally, I started to bot when I began to take studies seriously and pursue a fulltime job which made it difficult to invest so much time in doing the grindy Chores that goes hand in hand with WoW Content/Patches. To get the same sort level of enjoyment I had to do the "chores" in order to unlock options. Chores would also help with gathering raid consumables, gold for miscellaneous expenditures and chores that would help reach a certain status with a long rep grinds which would have taken so much time away from other things like a full time job, full time studies which are arguably much more meaningful and time worthy when you compare it on a scale against WoW Chores. Whenever I would find botting convenient to get the chores out of the way I would often wonder if Blizzard could have designed the game abit less filled with chores and re-develop these chores to make them fun and enjoyable. When WoD was announced and there were sneak peeks and previews hosted by Blizzard came to light, I thought to myself that perhaps this expansion would feel less like a chore and it would focus on the "Fun" element, instead what I found was a content that felt like it was the epitome of what WoW chores could have mounted up to and more. While some gladly paid a monthly subscription to do virtual chores, others took pride in themselves and paid mass gold to buy wow tokens in order to do virtual chores all day every day minus the few hours for guild raids and pvp if anyone even bothers now a days.

These days I find myself viewing many positive Legion footage through youtubers yet I have to wonder to myself whether or not if Blizzard will learn from their Warlords of Chores. For all I know the next expansion can easily become Warlords of Chores 2.0

So what influenced you to start botting? For me it was to continue being on the top of the game by letting the bot do the "Chores" for me while I can focus the few hours I have to play on raids and sometimes pvp with close friends. What kept me going with botting was that there were increasing number of chores with each expansions and botting was a great convenience to solve the chores in my absence.

Do I regret botting? Hardly. I earnestly feel it was thanks to botting that I was able to even last as long as I did on WoW. Ultimately I played the game to have some fun and while the risks were always there it was worth botting if it meant I could enjoy the game by artificial means. There are plenty of other games out there aside from WoW which doesn't feel like a chore, if I was bound to move on I dare say I was much overdue to move onto other games. At the end of the day what you really enjoyed was the good memories and times you had which was greatly improved by botting, if the risks means you can graduate from the miserable chores WoW has become I think it's about time you take a step outside and find other games you could have potentially missed out on due to spending long hours investing on WoW chores.
 
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Game ist boring, Server are destroyed. For Quests you have to wait untiel the Bots are ready. Queststory of WOW ist allways the Same. You can get High Accounts with a Blizzard Paket. Bevor you can get level 90 Upgrade for some 50 Euro. You can get Gold (Token) by Blizzard now. Draenor ist made wit no Brain i think Legion will be not better. Is there any reason why 5 Toons have 5 different "Garnisions", even when they are on one Account? Fly in Dreanor ist a Toture now. Some more Reasons needed?
 
Before i would not touch a bot, now that the game is ruined i dont care if i get a 6 month ban. The reason i was botting (banned yesterday) was because i wanted to play arena with a class i havent touched before. Some bot routines are insane, they do everything. If you learn to use it, 2300 rating++ wont be a problem. I am laughing so hard when it reflect traps on hunters!
 
I began to ask myself while reflecting on all the years I've played WoW from early beta up to now, what really influenced me to try botting and what kept me continuing my botting career on WoW.

I thought I'd ask other like minded people for their own experience and opinions about this issue.

WoW Chores :) yes I completely agree with your post, and in addition for me, I have always been a 'computer guy', and to me computers are meant to handle menial tasks to make our lives easier. So in some respects, I bot because I enjoy finding ways to make my computer do my 'chores' for me so I can do the 'fun stuff'. Beyond that, I do some programming, I like programming again because its all about making the computer do work that I don't want to do, so with HB (or any botting software for any game/application), I love to play with it and 'train' it to do stuff for me.

I do understand the stance of those who are against botting as well, it does 'negatively impact' the player experience for those who don't bot (because they have to do the work themselves that we who do bot don't have to do to get the goodies). As well, botting is also quite often used to profit financially (ie. gold selling), which is something that I don't personally agree with doing, but kudos to those who can figure out how to profit from it, I have no negative views against those who do 'bot for profit'. I myself bot purely for the fun of botting and for my own characters existence really. My own goals are purely self gratification, not to 'negatively impact' someone else's game play.

Botting is just part of my entertainment budget. In the end if Blizz bans my accounts too often (and I have to keep purchasing new accounts), then I will just go find other games that I can bot on. If they ban me once in a while, its just the cost of entertainment.

Those are my thoughts and probably more information than you were asking, but I just figured I would share.
 
I love coding in C#, I love gaming - this way I can do both at once :)

If blizzard allowed me to code in C# instead of LUA then I would not bot, but instead they support a really stupid language.
 
The main reason is that most of the things are just plain boring after 10 years. Probably no one enjoys questing through Azeroth or Outlands or whatever anymore, not even the non-botters. And trust me, I've tried, I've tried really hard to enjoy it, and to still like it, and to still do it by hand after a decade. But it just doesn't work anymore. I don't get how Blizzard can genuinely believe people could still enjoy these tasks after so many years, because this is clearly not the case for the majority of players. This also applies to extremely tedious tasks like Archeology, Fishing, farming stuff in general, and - probably the worst of all - grinding reputation. Or grinding XYZ.

When Ultima Online was out for quite a few years it was "Standard" to 8x8 macro your abilities on new toons, no one would have ever thought of doing this by hand anymore, and the devs were wise enough to understand that and accept the macroing (which was basically the same like botting). Blizzard is extremely narrow-minded and dumb enough to believe that they can keep a massive playerbase by letting people do the same tasks over and over and over again without changing anything. I'm convinced this won't happen. If they entirely ban bots from the game they will lose a remarkable amount of players. But maybe they don't even care about that anymore, and already have the end of WoW in sight (I don't think there will be many more expansions after Legion). Which is probably the only thing that would explain why they give a fuck to so many players. WoW is definitely in it's last years, we should all just realize it and move on. Trying to find a game which is actually FUN without needing anything to do boring tasks is my main goal now.
 
i like to play with some friends who are into wow, and i dont have the time or energy to play that much, i really enjoy some aspects of the game tho (normal raids with friends) , and to play the way i want, i bot
 
My Main Reason for Botting is just im Lazy after 9 Years WoW GamePlay i played over 8 Years without any Bots /*****s whatever.
I Give a fuck about Farming /Gold /Gather shit.
In the past Before the Banwave Started on the 13/05/2015 i used Many Parts of the Bots . Gatherbuddy only to Skill Mining and Blacksmithing and Ingeneuring.Questing /Battlground Bot and Combatroutines /Dungeonbuddy. Than on the 19/11/2015 i was careful with it i Only used Combatroutines not more and i was 100% of the time on the PC . But that helped Nothing.

Combat Routines is in Raid the finest what you can have.
I know 2 Guys they must play with Combatroutine /Bot cause they want to Raid but they lost some fingers of one Hand or one they lost their Hand @ work.
With 1 Hand to Play WoW if you want it its just Bullshit.
 
Im 41, and Ive played games since I was 12, First on a Macintosh, then a PC, then Comodore & Amiga and on PC again since the 286 came out :) Ive played/worked with a mouse so much that it has started to leave its mark on my finger joints. Ive been botting since mid Padaria, and like the OP Ive enjoyed beign able to do what I found fun in wow, with out the chores (I am a really well paid IT professional so who wants to do chores in a game that is supposed to be a fun leasure thing ?). Ive primarily used the bot for Tanarian dailies (borring as hell when youve done it twice) and offcourse enyo for when I wanted to play by hand.
In my book Blizzard is like a dinosaur trying desperately to hold on to life, while their customers are slipping through their fingers because they can't renew the game towards the new gamers, that actually wants to have fun, not spamming the same old buttons we've done for years allready.
 
I played wow for close to 8 years without botting and my son introdused me to HB ...it was so much better on my old fingers not to have to bang a dozen buttons , it's blizzards fault allot of people turned to bots. They should have allowed macros in game for spells..they did at first . Playing rift i could chain a dozen spells into one button . Almost all their customers bot and they know it , to eleminate bots is to kill wow for good. This botting ban was just a show of their jerkdom. Wow will never be the game it was Wrath was their crowning achievement and the game has gone downhill since. Have you looked at legion ? the map is tiny , it would't take me 2 weeks to be so bored with it and without the bot i can't dungeon or raid so...wow is dead.
 
I started botting cause the servers were not populated enough to do all the content so I just started doing it myself with bots
 
Up until a year and a half ago I never boted. My disabilites started to get worse and I ws getting kicked from randoms and forget about PVP, was not going to happen. And without some help would never happen again. I have no problem is letting it be known I have no life! All I had for the past year or so was WOW and HB. I also got caught up in the 18 month ban. I really doubt I live another 18 months. But I am looking at a class action against Blizzard for disabled folks just like me. They claim it is about keeping a level playing field...BULLSHIT! I never *****ed anyone, I did not sell gold or dig up a ton of resources. I used Kick's to level and I run d buddy for runs. I was hurting nobody, and BAM blizzard put the finger on me. I will elt you know how the class action info goes.
 
I got into the world of exploits because of the ability to patch the game back in wrath with druids of azeroth as well as being able to transmog in wrath by changing hex code. This led me to world building because I found it fun, then I came across HB.

I used HB for a number of reasons. I have severe degenerative arthritis in my hands so at times it becomes painful to play for any length of time. While questing or soloing this isn't a problem but when I make a commitment to raid others are depending on me to be there. I'm also not a very good player, now days raid simply have to many things you need to know and be able to do. Kilrog is a constant move out of green stuff, move back for heart seeker, kill adds in the right order, get into visions, all while trying to coordinate CD's into your normal rotation. Its simply to much for me but the only part of this game that is really social anymore is raiding. I can and do do a lot of pet battles but they get boring because its never in a group, I would do dungeons but they never release more, and until recently they could be skipped altogether. Scenerios are gone, questing is best done solo. It simply isn't an MMO except the parts of the game I need help with.

Blizzard also has a habit of changing everything I like about a class which means that I need to invest a great deal of time leveling and gearing a new class (For example I loved shadow priests and now suddenly they are becoming demo locks, I don't like the play style of meta at all so now I have to abandon a 4 year character to start a diffrent one.)

Finally I work 50+ hours a week and I have a family that I love to spend time with. Blizz has not understood or cared maybe, that I don't have the time to spend in game that I used to. I can do without the achievments or any of the prestige CM's but everything in their game has become about spend x amount of time to get this. I simply don't have x amount of time anymore.
 
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I bot due to *****ing been fun and making people RQ in BGS. #noobs

No but really botting just makes game easier to do shit + I am not spending my time grinding dailys to fly :P
 
Dont tell Blizzard I bot and I wont say anything about the porn saved on ur hard drive
 
I started playing in Vanilla, after AQ patch. Got into serious raiding in BC and part of LK til Ulduar. After we did Sarth 3D, I quit my guild and played solo, raided casually. Cleared Ulduar in a semi formal pug except Yogg then quit and sold my account when Cata came out. Dabbled into Free to Play level 20 twinking BGs. My time on the twink forum lead me to OC which is where I learned about botting and gold selling and that lead me to here. I've been botting since the back end of Cata til now, I bot to sell gold and accounts...nothing more nothing less. I still like to play here and there doing LFR and such but it's the money that still drives me to play this game.
 
I was bored of the revolving door of lose/lose situations Blizzard forced me through to gear up in PvP. The way the gearing process is designed rewards whoever gets the gear first by allowing them to farm everyone else. It's the equivalent of queuing against professionals in a game you've just began playing, except skill doesn't matter because fuck you padded gear. It's not fun by any stretch of the imagination. When you get to 100 through one grind, you're rewarded with having to do another one.

I just got my alt account to 100 after the most previous ban, and I'm doing the grind right now for the gear. It completely validates my reasons for botting, this forced slaughter is a drag and I don't see why anyone would ever voluntarily do it when there are such appealing options like HB. As soon as HB is available to be used again, I will use it. If you want to fix this problem, address the fucking dreadful gearing situation.
 
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