I've whined about this before as some of you are aware. Contemplated starting a thread about it myself.
The current anti-AFK measures are a joke. They do not work. At best they maybe halved the AFK rate in AV. But they also INCREASED the AFK rate in other BGs, as some of the AFKers moved there. I've yet to see anybody flagged AFK in a BG that wasn't AV. I've even told my premade of 6 friends to report somebody combined with telling everybody in the BG to report some guy, and he never got flagged. Ridiculous.
I still see AFKs well into the double digits in AV.
I like to use the Quake analogy. If you played a game of Quake, and your team had members in it that refused to participate and just took up space, you would get pissed. It's the exact same situation in WoW. Anybody who thinks AFKing is no big deal is a faggot who just wants his welfare epics and doesn't care about PvP.
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Originally Posted by Maique  i once saw a mage in darnassus inside the AV npc casting frost armor over and over again, it was obviously a bot, he would enter AV, come out to darnassus and keep doing it, i reported it, nothing happened, he kept going at it, a couple of days later i see him again, and i report again, and nothing happened, i add him to the friends list, and he was online everyday, so he wasn't banned not even for a couple of days.
For me someone that makes 8k honor in a day with 0 HK is harassing other players, and should get a suspension/ban as such... |
I've seen a mage on my server do this exact same thing, only he managed something like 14k on a non-AV weekend (with zero HKs) after the report option was put in. About as much proof as you need that the system is ineffective.
I petitioned a GM to do something about him three times. They all told me "thanks for making warcraft a better place" then did absolutely nothing. How do I know they did nothing? Because I /ruded the fucker every time I saw him, and one day he told me how smart he was for botting his honor. I said if he ever got banned, that it would be because of my petition. He then replied with some tell that suggested that he was never contacted by a GM.
So really, fuck WoW's CS in the mother fucking ass. Fuck WoW's devs for not playing their game, and/or not giving a shit about their PvP base.
If Blizzard required everybody to enter PvP combat before becoming eligible to receive any honor in a battleground, it would reduce AFKing by a huge amount, because it would require them to run sophisticated bot programs that could be detected by warden. Currently all you need to bot a BG is something that can right click the screen every minute or so. This is so simple that several software programs or devices can do this and not be caught by warden. Also the more of a pain you make it for the non-botting AFKers, the fewer that will do it.