r/classicwow • u/Moroga • 15h ago
Classic 20th Anniversary Realms Is Blizzard even doing anything about AFK players in battlegrounds anymore?
I’m starting to think some players have actually moved in at the tunnel entrance. Same names, same spots, just standing there day after day like it’s their new apartment.
At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if they started charging rent.
Seriously though, it’s getting really annoying. They don’t even try to hide it — full AFK from start to finish — and nothing seems to happen to them no matter how often they get reported.
Is Blizzard even looking at AFK reports these days?
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u/Puckett52 15h ago
Yes there was recently a ban wave for this. Will happen again i’m sure
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u/Careless_Company_775 10h ago
You ban wave guys are so fucking easily led. How are the bot ban waves going? Or the gold buyers/sellers? Oh yeah it's made 0 fucking difference
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u/Jimblobb 8h ago
Ban waves don't work, case in pont, every iteration of wow since they got rid of the vast majority of GM's and CS.
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u/bradweiser629 7h ago
Ban waves work the way Blizzard intends them to. It generates income every wave in the form of new subscriptions. As far as i can tell, they have no monetary incentive to stop cheating.
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u/DrydenTech 14h ago
I just got 2 week ban for non participation in AV.
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u/Alexiavich 8h ago
When?
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u/DrydenTech 8h ago
Couple days ago. I was dual boxing my mage and priest spending a lot of time as ghost on one or the other and both got busted.
Sucks setting back ranking, lesson learned will be better at AFK'ing when i return.
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u/el_lofto 3h ago
The best way to AFK and be effective as well is to just defend towers, and keep an eye on it while you do something else.
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u/madballfanboy 7h ago
God damn, they take your honor too? That’s brutal.
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u/Rejected_Reject_ 5h ago
They did in 2019 and should again. I honestly say skip the ban and just reset honor. That would be enough of a deterrent.
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u/DrydenTech 7h ago
I hope not, just got enough for 8-9 breakpoint but if they did I guess I deserve it.
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u/tigs1016 4h ago
This is a blizzard problem not a player problem. If the only way to get r14 wasn’t 40 hours a week of a non-pvp bg, people might actually play. You don’t get the same afk problem in AB because it’s actually fun.
Also the AFKers have very little impact on the game. It doesn’t matter if you win or lose. Honestly I wish the entire team would AFK so I didn’t have to sit through 40 mins of torture for 5k honor.
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u/uJumpiJump 3h ago
Queuing for AV is voluntary, in case you were unaware
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u/tigs1016 3h ago
It’s actually not though. If you want r14, you need 500k honor at least two weeks. That isn’t happening anywhere else
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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins 3h ago
You don’t need R14.
I’m sure as shit not getting it and we’re clearing BWL and MC same night in about two hours.
Fuck spending a full time jobs worth of time playing an unfun BG to get slightly better gear I don’t need so we can do it 15 mins faster.
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u/tigs1016 3h ago
Yo I agree 100%. I’m not getting it either, it’s just lame that if you WANT to do it, you only have this one painful option. Tweak honor in AB to be comparable and it would solve all the problems
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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins 3h ago
Nah just wait - once AB releases you’ll start seeing premade loss groups who intentionally get five capped and lose to maximise honor per hour.
Players will do anything to avoid playing the game.
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u/tigs1016 3h ago
Ya I remember those days. But it’s still not comparable to AV as far as honor/hour goes. If you get a good 5 man you can clear 25-30k. Prolly not even half than in AB. Unless something is vastly different now
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u/Gilamunsta 54m ago
I'm one of the odd ducks out there, as long as I get R5 (Sergeant Major/First Sergeant) I'm happy.
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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins 7m ago
I got to R7, which basically happened as I got exalted with AV.
I give zero shits about going higher. I’ll play AB a bunch cause it’s fun and if I get more ranks then whatever, but I certainly won’t be shooting for it.
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u/Crazytalkbob 14h ago
A lot of people don't bother noticing or reporting afkers.
We need an addon that ranks raid members based on active time the way damage/threat meters show a list of players by damage/threat.
Imagine if the 5 players who ran straight to base to hide behind a wall popped up on your screen as inactive. Then you could just right click and report afk.
I think more players would report them if it was made easier to spot the afkers.
There would have to be something to stop it from flagging players that are guarding contested GYs / towers / bunkers. Standing around for 5 minutes is okay if you're on a flag.
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u/Sh1rvallah 10h ago
Me, protecting the stables flag, very afraid of this one
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u/Crazytalkbob 10h ago
I was thinking AV.
WSG and AB probably wouldnt work.
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u/Crazytalkbob 13h ago
Your experience has been different than mine, maybe horde does a better job reporting afkers.
Of all the AVs I've played, I see chat about the afkers maybe once per week, and have only ever seen an afker get the debuff once.
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u/DarkoTSM 12h ago
Yes, you need to report them and ask others in battlegrounds to report them too. Once enough reports are in they will be kicked from the bg. After a few bgs they will get a warning, after ban.
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u/irockisos 11h ago
I had some guy lose his shit for mentioning that he was afk. While he sat on a flag and didn’t move while we were constantly attacked. He harassed me for like 5 mins straight afterwards. So I reported him for that too!
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u/Slightly_Shrewd 5h ago
That’s usually what they do when they see their name mentioned lol I see it all the time.
Then they blame the person who brought up that they were afk of being afk themselves lol every time. Like clockwork.
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u/Odd_Asparagus_5512 12h ago
i dont care i will keep afking as long as people force turtles
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u/GonzoLoop 11h ago
Waaaah, people are playing the game in a way that is ineficient for my honor gain so I will take my ball and go home
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u/quinpon64337_x 11h ago
In 2019 what they did was wait until players were at the final week for their r14 and banned the afkers for a few weeks
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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins 3h ago
Less effective now unless they also reset weeks of honor.
Otherwise they’ve AFK’d all but one week and can just pretend to play for their last push instead.
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u/awake283 4h ago
Yes, they are. Two guildies got like a 3 day ban or seomthing yesterday. I report AFK'ers too and Ive gotten a couple in game mails from blizz saying they took action on accounts I reported.
Dont AFK. It hurts everyone. And you will eat a 3 day ban at some point.
Also, the kicker, they take all your honor away too.
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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins 3h ago
Do they reset them to zero? Take one week off then? Like how much do they lose?
Hopefully more than just that week cause that’s nothing.
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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins 3h ago
Remember AV launch in classic where we could report AFKs and kick them? And how it was so relentlessly abused it was taken away from us in a week?
Good times.
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u/justapeon2 3h ago
Who cares what other people are doing. It's Blizzard's fault for needing to play 40 hours a week of the least fun PVP in history to get R14.
Even if AB weekend you still BARELY get as much honor got a WIN as you do for an AV LOSS
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u/TheCobretti 13h ago
Let's hope so, so sick of afk'ers, fishermen, wolf killers. It's annoying.
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u/WoWSecretsYT 12h ago
Ah so I’m just supposed to let the wolf population grow exponentially? There would be too many wolves if I wasn’t there to keep the population down! You’d be overrun
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u/TransportationOk1034 11h ago
Which part of WoW has the most players and is actively making them the most money? You gotta look at it through the lense of a scumbag executive, because the part that makes them the most money is where they put their focus
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u/LividInteraction_ 13h ago
got a bunch of mail recently for people getting banned who i reported but recently i only reported afkers so im sure those were them
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u/krazystanbg 13h ago
Yes they ban you for a week for first offence. Just report and move on with your day. They will get what’s coming soon enough.
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u/ChimneyonStream 12h ago
Yea I got afk banned for sitting in the AV town defending. I spend the first half of the games in the town generally not moving until the horde arrive. Got a 2 week ban. So god damn stupid. Is defending homebase considered AFKing lol
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u/BigFudge9301 10h ago
If you're sitting AFK at base for half the "normal" game time then yes, that's the definition of AFK
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u/ChimneyonStream 6h ago
Not really afk im usually there running in circles till the horde show up in the valley
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u/Kombuja 12h ago
Not sure anyone has ever reported me for that. I chill by the last GY flag so it can’t just get yoinked by a couple of rogues.
Every single time the other side does the same thing the offense seems very annoyed by it because it slows them down. Hopefully other players see that.
I also have a slow mount, which thankfully ends Tuesday, so I typically get killed before I can make it past the half way point on the map and get sent back anyway.
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u/ChimneyonStream 6h ago
Slow mount here as well which is why I play defense for the first half. Im typically running in circles till the horde start flowing in. But my killing blows speak for themselves. Yet i was still banned for AFKing…
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u/Safe_Cash7091 11h ago
They for sure are. In AV the other day and my dog freaked out and got tangled in a cord, almost toppled my desk over. I had to get up and sort that out, wasn’t gone long but I was kicked and not allowed to enter for 15 mins. Idk what happens if you it more than once.
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u/Direct-Back-5483 15h ago
Yes they are, i had multiple guildies banned for this a week ago. Will be ban wave again