World of Warcraft

Is WoW Botting Getting Out of Hand?

I honestly didn't think it was this bad, but the fine folks over at the Fires of Heaven forums have proven me wrong with some screenshots of recent "hacking" done on many US realms.

Apparently a certain unnamed gold farming website is employing a new type of spamming in-game. It's hard to believe, but they're literally spelling the URL of their website out in dead gnome corpses in the middle of Ironforge, by hacking the client and flying into the air, then dropping from the sky - falling to their deaths. There are several different sources for this; the FoH thread I mentioned above and two threads on the official forums - one in General and one in Customer Service.

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  • Thu, Jul 5 2007 4:50 PM ()

    im sorry but this is hilirious...much less annoying than the usual ways of spamming and you cant help but laugh when you see taht many dead gnomes outside of gnomeregon

  • bigboned said 
    Thu, Jul 5 2007 4:50 PM ()

    Best use of gnomes I've heard of in a while. :)

  • Eldredd said 
    Thu, Jul 5 2007 4:50 PM ()

    This is without question one of the wierdest things I have encountered in the 2 years I have been playing this crazy game. At least the spam was creative this time.

  • g00na said 
    Thu, Jul 5 2007 4:50 PM ()

    i think it shows they getting desperate to advertise now that blizz have prevented 90% of there spam ads thru whispers.

  • Thu, Jul 5 2007 4:50 PM ()

    Never seen that before :P On our server they are just standing there with 5 lvl 1 chars spamming all day o.O

  • Thu, Jul 5 2007 4:50 PM ()

    the biggest hack was tBC ...

    oops! sorry. not pc for sure. *grin*

  • Oisin said 
    Thu, Jul 5 2007 4:50 PM ()

    hehe screenshot from my server the otherday here....

    http://s70.photobucket.com/albums/i10.../?action=view¤t=WoWScrnShot_070407_130105.jpg

  • Thu, Jul 5 2007 4:50 PM ()

    Damn, thats actually pretty dang funny. Can't wait to see what they try next....

  • natt said 
    Thu, Jul 5 2007 4:50 PM ()

    It is true. Happn'd on my realm :) Heard the gnomes die every 2 sec. =P

  • Drift3r said 
    Thu, Jul 5 2007 4:50 PM ()

    ROTFLMAO !! They are doing a Gnome Carpet Bombing Advertising campaign ! Brilliant ! Best use of Gnomes EVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!

    It's like Vietnam all over again except with Gnomes !!

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