Quote Originally Posted by Angelhearth View Post
Yes, a long time ago, but Blizzard took some serious action and they never really got back to the level where they were a problem. It might also have had something to do with the fact that Blizzard started selling gold (don't remember the name of the item) so the gold sellers didn't earn much.
Even with the WoW token, the bots were still there.

Can't speak for WoD when the WoW token was added. Let's face, everyone was sitting in their garrison. Who was out there able to see the bots in action? Could be even the bots were doing all their farming in the garrisons.

Legion - a constant string of bots going around, especially in Suramar. Ore and herb prices crashed hard, leather was somewhat better but then leather doesn't have the high demand the other have. Thank goodness they had changed how nodes work so you still had 15 seconds to gather from a node after a first character used it. Otherwise, the bots would have owned that expansion.

BfA - didn't play. If there's a lack of bots in BfA, it's probably because of two things - the player population took a huge hit (rumor was it dropped from about 6 million at start to under 2 million by year's end) and the launch of Classic WoW - which has a major infestation of bots that Blizzard is struggling with right now. Bot operators go where the buyers are and the buyers in current WoW were disappearing rapidly.

Quote Originally Posted by Angelhearth View Post
And if SE had allowed add-opns like that (as you suggest), or better yet, implemented them in the game, there wouldn't be any problems with bots on the market anymore.
If SE allowed add-ons or implemented similar tools as part of the game, the market bots might be gone but we'd still have the undercutting. We'd still end up with the complaints.