Friday, November 30, 2007

Don't use grinding bots

For World of Warcraft gamers there is nothing they dislike more than a new gamer who uses such things as cheats and cheat codes to progress quickly through the game. Another annoyance, and something which is banned from the World of Warcraft game site, is a player who uses a World of Warcraft bot.

For those unaware of it, a game bot is an automated service or software that will emulate human behavior. By using a World of Warcraft bot, players will be able to progress through the levels more quickly, or to level up faster. This is cheating. In fact, November of 2006, Blizzard banned more ten thousand gamers from World of Warcraft for using bots to take them through the leveling and the grinding processes of the game. This action of banning over 10,000 users did not make much difference, though, now they just try not to get caught in the act of botting.

The reason Blizzard banned using World of Warcraft bots is because it's against the Terms of Service which you agreed to when you signed on for the game. This includes third party automating services, third party power leveling services as well as the use of hacks, data mining and cheats. Make sure you fully read the Terms of Service before you play.

The problem with that, is that many people don't bother to read the Terms of Service but will just click on the agree button to get the game ball rolling. Or if you do read it, you only read the beginning few paragraphs and skip, or skim through the rest, which could explain how you might miss the reference to not using a World of Warcraft bot or a third party automating service!

All in all, the best thing that you could do would be to skip the World of Warcraft bot to help get you through the levels and actually learn to play the game for yourself. After all, that's what you got the game for in the first place, isn't it?

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