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Welcome to the truth about corporations. To sum it up, its your money they want, and if you lose your account, they could care less. The loss of 1 player is insignificant to them.

They fail to see the larger picture.
Bot will pay for silk for a little bit then quit.
Since there is many bots, word is spread that it is a BAD BOT game. Due to that many other paying customers do NOT go to sro and go to Wow/etc.

IF you ban bots, you lose money in the short term, but paying customers come/come back to sro and money goes up.

So, JoyMax, your plan works great short term, but long term fails.

bluey wrote:Welcome to the truth about corporations. To sum it up, its your money they want, and if you lose your account, they could care less. The loss of 1 player is insignificant to them.

yep money is all that matters. why does JM hate gold bots so much? cause its money they arent getting. its fairly obvious that some people are botting and doing other stuff. example

tonight some guy keeps spawning white spiders and ishades at the south gate in jangan. kills a bunch of below 20s and some people who are pvping. someone globals what they're doing. nothing happens. as well ive seen people global racial slurs, cuss words, sexual insults. you name it. nothing happens to them. i see the same people doing it all the time.

as an irc admin i could easily take 20 minutes and write a log parser that looked for terms like '******' '.....' etc and automaticly send a list of users who had used those terms to an email address.

joymax could easily do the same.

basically as i could see it comes down to this.

spend money with joymax and break the rules = 95 percent ignore rate

spend money somewhere else (like buying gold) = ban as much as possible.

the reason i say that is simple. its very very very easy to make a bot detector. all you need to do is have a form on the site where you submit someone you've seen botting. then the server records their actions. at the GMs convience they can watch what the player was doing and determine if they are botting. this does not require making a video since JM wrote the code and easily record every action a character makes to demo file (if youve played quake you know what i mean).

those 2 things ive listed above are quite obvious and have been done for anti-cheating in gaming a long time.

MastaChiefX wrote:They fail to see the larger picture.
Bot will pay for silk for a little bit then quit.
Since there is many bots, word is spread that it is a BAD BOT game. Due to that many other paying customers do NOT go to sro and go to Wow/etc.

IF you ban bots, you lose money in the short term, but paying customers come/come back to sro and money goes up.

So, JoyMax, your plan works great short term, but long term fails.

If that was how it worked we would all have moved on to different games by now.
But they know that whether or not bots are banned, no mater howmuch we bitch, 95% of us will still continue playing and probably paying

if this weren't the 962345678218567345690721349587234968th topic on this subject, it wouldn't have been locked.