Blizzard has taken bigger steps to address bot issues in World of Warcraft Classic, including banning nearly 120,000 accounts and reinstating restrictions on who can create and play the game’s popular Death Knight class. I am teaching.
In a post by Wrath of the Lich King Classic forum, Blizzard announced that it has banned nearly 120,000 “malicious accounts” from the game’s Wrath Classic and Classic Era servers. Blizzard says the recent bans are in addition to the usual wave of bans, often involving “tens of thousands of accounts per week.”
But this time, Blizzard goes one step further. When Wrath of the Lich King first launched in 2008, a level 55 character had to already exist on the server you wanted to create a Death Knight on. However, this was not the case with the launch of Wrath Classic, where Blizzard allowed all accounts to create a single Death Knight character without restrictions. We wanted players to be able to play with friends and jump straight into Wrath Classic without spending dozens of hours on it.
But as Garrosh Hellscream once said, “Times change.” Blizzard is now reinstating the original restrictions on Death Knights along with regional maintenance on March 21st to combat bad actors.
“It was important to allow all accounts access to Death Knights, even if they didn’t meet our historical requirements,” Blizzard wrote. “But now that the initial launch period is over, we don’t want to allow unlimited Death Knight creations on brand new accounts because bad actors can infiltrate the game and start exploiting it very quickly. It is an attractive vector to use for
Community reaction to the news has been mixed. On the one hand, the fact that since Blizzard first announced the move, the ability to create Death Knights on new accounts with no existing level 55 characters has been abused by bots and “malicious accounts” has been a problem for players. had pointed out. This problem seems to get worse over time.Several WoW content creators Metagoblin and Willie I’m documenting issues from the last few months.
game player subreddit Prohibiting the easy creation of Death Knights would be the game’s paid character boost service, a service that has long been another point of contention within the WoW Classic community. In general, players seem happy that Blizzard has taken action, but it is questionable whether the return of restrictions on Death Knight will result in lasting change. In his post, he acknowledged that the battle against bots is a never-ending battle, “so long as there is demand for gold and other services that players are willing to pay real money for.” I wrote. , these malicious actors will return. ”
Blizzard has remained largely silent on its plans for WoW Classic in 2023, but a few lines of code in the public testing area of WoW’s current Dragonflight expansion are likely the next news related to an official “hardcore” server. shows some evidence of Coming soon.
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