Maybe to team up with different bots, or leech off pursuit growth and classic gold wow mob tags from folks who (they assume) don't know any better? Though, yeah, I'm slightly suspicious that it also apparently auto-accepted the summon (you are supposed to get a confirmation prompt), and somehow the individual who had been running the bot never realized their ranking was getting tanked.
On the 1 hand, having played Vanilla before it became WOW Classic, I have to laugh at the bot scourge. Bots were a scourge back too, but my nostalgia demands I assert it was since Blizzard was underfunded, as it'd just been a year or 2 because the launching of WoW and their most lucrative years were still ahead of them. I've fond memories of this community bot threads on pvp servers, even where ally and horde would go to report individuals they saw botting so as to put hits on those people that the other faction would gleefully take. Truly, the first cross-faction collaboration to ever happen on pvp servers has been that the communal effort to fuck over bots. So, indeed, it is the WOW Classic experience to have to manage botting.
However, on the other hand, it stinks that they refuse to answer that correctly now they have the tools, expertise, and cash to finance the measures to stop the bots. Also, with robots having revealed they were so rewarding on live, it is clear that botting in WOW Classic would also be an issue. So it's disgraceful that they'd even consider letting it get this bad.
Honestly, a part of me always felt that, in retrospect, WOW Classic would end up being a clear money grab by a depraved company with zero maintenance for the customer experience, however I still had hope that they would somehow do it correctly. But no, they're doing nothing to stop the many different things that are plaguing it. Probably hiding behind the shield of"#no varies" while they do that, too.
Entertaining stuff. I started playing WoW in May 2019 and played for about 6 weeks before I lost interest. The N'Zoth growth was so dull --only endless milling and lore that made no sense to me, along with my efforts to catch up to this lore by studying online only made me increasingly confused. So I finally quit playing. It is a shame, because portions of WOW Classic were quite enjoyable and well executed, but it appears the expansion packs only get worse and worse. I guess it is hard to maintain imaginative energy for 20 years on the exact same world, particularly once you have to cheap wow gold classic focus the narrative on anxieties and raised stakes for gameplay, but Blizzard has done a dreadful job of it IMO.
