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I find this kinda funny. 11 replies
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/04/10/124218.shtml
So, Blizzard is having trouble with a very mainstream bot now. In case you didn't know, way back when lineage 1 was nearing the amount of subscribers in Korea that WoW has now worldwide, botting was not only rampant, but everyone did it. Botting over there is still considered the norm. It's just what you do. Even further, people would sell in game stuff just to make enough for food/shelter, and to play more. I honestly think that with the population WoW has, there will be more and more people only willing to bot so they can put time elsewhere. It's a growing demographic, people that don't have time to play but willing to risk the ban because of the rewards. Hell, I even heard RO has some kind of automated system to help players. Very interesting watching this unfold; who knows what'll happen in the next few years.
So, Blizzard is having trouble with a very mainstream bot now. In case you didn't know, way back when lineage 1 was nearing the amount of subscribers in Korea that WoW has now worldwide, botting was not only rampant, but everyone did it. Botting over there is still considered the norm. It's just what you do. Even further, people would sell in game stuff just to make enough for food/shelter, and to play more. I honestly think that with the population WoW has, there will be more and more people only willing to bot so they can put time elsewhere. It's a growing demographic, people that don't have time to play but willing to risk the ban because of the rewards. Hell, I even heard RO has some kind of automated system to help players. Very interesting watching this unfold; who knows what'll happen in the next few years.
botting is easy...
all you need to do is leave a computer overnight and instant 3 + lvl up...
umm...ignore that..
all you need to do is leave a computer overnight and instant 3 + lvl up...
umm...ignore that..
lol, there's always gonna be botting in MMOs... heck I remember there was even botting in TL and LS here, at least they're trying to stop it... they never will, but it's good to try
Well of course there will always be botting, but once these people get banned, they've sold enough characters/items to just make another account so the population of botters really never goes down. This is repeating exactly what happened over in South Korea. NCsoft would have lost too much money banning the botters, so although they claimed to get rid of them, 90% of the players still botted.
Macros..thats all a bot really is.
Thank you, guild, now all we need is oreo or whatever the hell his name is to stop by...
Many macros you mean. Single macros go no where near the intelligence of a bot.
His name was Orakio btw.
His name was Orakio btw.
Well yeah..but its all still macros in essence.
Back when i played UO we used to use a program called EZ-Macros to farm for stuff. Worked out nicely.
If anyone isnt familiar with it, you basically record your keystrokes and mouse movements, and then replay it over and over again. =)
Back when i played UO we used to use a program called EZ-Macros to farm for stuff. Worked out nicely.
If anyone isnt familiar with it, you basically record your keystrokes and mouse movements, and then replay it over and over again. =)
Wow, I never knew. Thanks. So it works kind of like a roBOT?
A bot for a complex game such as WoW or even Diablo is a macro with a lot of conditions. A macro would be like "go to point A, shoot at angle X with attack Y, repeat, repeat, pick up loot." A condition would allow it to be:
"go to point A, check monster's special abilities; proceed if safe; else exit"
"shoot at angle X with attack Y."
"check health; if full repeat previous; else next; loop"
"pick up loot"
Close enough.
"go to point A, check monster's special abilities; proceed if safe; else exit"
"shoot at angle X with attack Y."
"check health; if full repeat previous; else next; loop"
"pick up loot"
Close enough.
Good thing that in GW you don't need to use bots.
Yeah gw is teh pwns.