LOTRO rid themselves of excessive bots/gold sellers a looooong time ago. Their content is gated by progressions, so you have to progress through the game to get to the eastern areas like Moria or Rohan. That takes a long time for bots as you have epic class, faction gates and such. Plus, gold is not very useful in that game.
Originally posted by bcbully @uhwop I understand where you are coming from. Bots just like the ones we see here plagued my game age of wushu too. They a irritating to the point of one day possibly being the straw that breaks the back of some players.
They are ugly, and the are infesting every aaa title w/o exception. If anyone here has a solution they should contact Blizzard, NCsoft and Zenimax and sell it to the highest bidder.
Every mmos will have bots atleast the big ones, however I haven't seen a bot in GW2 for months now and that doesn't mean that there aren't any but I feel that the bots population have thinned out alot in GW2, I remembered that there were alot in the beginning.
I also remember all the bots in wow but for some reason I allways thought that they were very creative and did commercial for there gold selling sites pretty funny so I almost enjoyed them in wow when I played that game. (not counting the four times they hacked my acount, then I hated them)
The big problem with bots are that they are playing on hacked acounts and if ESO has a huge problem with this then they are gonna loose alot of players soon if they don't fix it.
I hope they fix it for all you ESO fans cause you deserve a great game to play, especially a game with subscriptions should never have these problems in the long run.
Originally posted by tawess Also there must be a difference made between outright bots and multi-boxing. They can look mighty similar.
That's ridiculous.
ESO doesn't auto face you to the mob, allow targeting mobs through other players, or have an assist function. I don't even think it has a follow function.
It may be "soft targeting" but it still requires you to manually aim with the mouse. In order to tie several accounts to a single mouse and work at the same time you have to run the same software that bots would run on.
LOTRO rid themselves of excessive bots/gold sellers a looooong time ago. Their content is gated by progressions, so you have to progress through the game to get to the eastern areas like Moria or Rohan. That takes a long time for bots as you have epic class, faction gates and such. Plus, gold is not very useful in that game.
So it can be done.
Yes, it "can be done", but at a price.
If you fill your game design with level-gating, content-blocks, trivial crafting and a range of other restrictive features. That's really saying MMO's must follow the boxed-in design route or be prepared to be overrun with bots.
I suspect that the design of the MMO's launching this year was decided 3 or 4 years ago already. Goldseller activity has ramped-up considerably since then.
Nowadays, goldsellers are even having to worry about "out-botting" rival goldsellers in the same MMO !
The games that launch 4 years from now will probably (hopefully ?) be a lot more "bot-proof", specially the high-profile ones. And it doesn't matter if they're F2P or sub-based, if they are hyped or have good box sales, they will be attacked en-masse.
Maybe if developers changed MMO's from a grind fest to that of entertainment and skill then there wouldn't be a market for gold sellers. The notion of drip feeding players ground hog day menial content in an attempt to prolong a subscription needs to die.
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LOTRO rid themselves of excessive bots/gold sellers a looooong time ago. Their content is gated by progressions, so you have to progress through the game to get to the eastern areas like Moria or Rohan. That takes a long time for bots as you have epic class, faction gates and such. Plus, gold is not very useful in that game.
So it can be done.
Every mmos will have bots atleast the big ones, however I haven't seen a bot in GW2 for months now and that doesn't mean that there aren't any but I feel that the bots population have thinned out alot in GW2, I remembered that there were alot in the beginning.
I also remember all the bots in wow but for some reason I allways thought that they were very creative and did commercial for there gold selling sites pretty funny so I almost enjoyed them in wow when I played that game. (not counting the four times they hacked my acount, then I hated them)
The big problem with bots are that they are playing on hacked acounts and if ESO has a huge problem with this then they are gonna loose alot of players soon if they don't fix it.
I hope they fix it for all you ESO fans cause you deserve a great game to play, especially a game with subscriptions should never have these problems in the long run.
That's ridiculous.
ESO doesn't auto face you to the mob, allow targeting mobs through other players, or have an assist function. I don't even think it has a follow function.
It may be "soft targeting" but it still requires you to manually aim with the mouse. In order to tie several accounts to a single mouse and work at the same time you have to run the same software that bots would run on.
The only way to multibox in ESO is to bot.
Yes, it "can be done", but at a price.
If you fill your game design with level-gating, content-blocks, trivial crafting and a range of other restrictive features. That's really saying MMO's must follow the boxed-in design route or be prepared to be overrun with bots.
I suspect that the design of the MMO's launching this year was decided 3 or 4 years ago already. Goldseller activity has ramped-up considerably since then.
Nowadays, goldsellers are even having to worry about "out-botting" rival goldsellers in the same MMO !
The games that launch 4 years from now will probably (hopefully ?) be a lot more "bot-proof", specially the high-profile ones. And it doesn't matter if they're F2P or sub-based, if they are hyped or have good box sales, they will be attacked en-masse.
And they are usually premade lvl 3 characters with zero armour and weaps.. That and the keyboard faceroll names....