An ex-Blizzard developer has shared the oh-so-simple yet equally effective method for stamping out bots in the early days of World of Warcraft.
It's a fact of life that in online games, people will attempt to cheat their way to the top using bots, and World of Warcraft is no exception. It's an issue that Blizzard has been battling since the MMOs beginning, and while the process for detecting these computer-controlled entities is likely much more advanced these days, the first method used was genius in its simplicity.
