145015-game-is-a-ticking-time-bomb

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How did someone steal your kills? Mobs in Wildstar are open tag.


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Bots are the reason we have level-locked resource nodes. They would take level 3 toons into Malgrave and swarm every resource node in the zone for days. Eventually, the "solution" was to make life harder for legitimate players. We also had the scum-kings at HonorBuddy selling the same kinds of hacks here that made them Public Enemy Number One at Blizzard. But as I said elsewhere, these are gold farmers using basic scripts to "earn money" that they hope to sell back to unscrupulous players. Sadly, Oli's advice to just not use those services will fall on the deaf ears of the losers who feel the need to avail themselves of such tactics. If these were "real players" running bot-scripting in battlegrounds, they would have actual names, not crap like NPUHIJONFBITUFOA and jlhaihdtrhlcnayr.


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Funny I haven't noticed rampant botting in a lot of the other games that I've played (MMO's included). But by all means, keep giving Carbine a free pass on this. It was a huge issue that plagued the game during P2P and I really can't believe it's happening again. It's frustrating.


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Why can't you believe it? You do realize that botters spend EVERY WAKING MOMENT scripting new, better programs in order to defeat whatever counter-measures have been arrayed against them. Carbine is a small studio and very likely doesn't have a full-time, always-on bot-busting programmer dedicated to scouring the dark under-belly of the internet for clues as to what the bot-scripters are planning next. I'm not giving a "free pass" but neither can you rightfully blame *any* studio for the ill-actions of criminals. Carbine has beaten them before, but it does take time. Programming takes time. Mass bans take time. Decoding whatever new hacks are being run takes time. I realize it's frustrating, but come on, it's not like Carbine went out and invited these people to come in and play for free with no barriers to setting up accounts and no plan on how to combat this when it happened ... Oh. Wait.


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Rofl you must not play many MMOs then. Every MMO from F2P to P2P i have played has been rampant with bots of all sorts. Edit: Keeping in mind at times the botting can be less noticable but still happens. Not that I give Carbine a free pass or anything, but i don't see anyone crying about the issue coming up with some master code  or solution to stop it.

Edited October 23, 2015 by Wolfuse


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This is some nonsense right here. The number of "services" that a Google search yields has nearly no correlation at all to the amount of bots or gold farmers that would exist in a game. Competent developers (dealing with larger player bases even) have figured out ways to mitigate the flood. There is no reason Carbine should get a pass for not doing anything about it because "bots/gold farmers might exist in other games because their services show up in a Google search so it's ok if they're in this game ruining BG's and chat". Stop it.


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Bots help me make my first CREDD, they would AH ore for WAY less then vender.... I would spend all day buying and vendering stuff.


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