xeha_arwen11 wrote: »
It's not silly. Botting is ruining this game. They are everywhere, they make 1 percent of players control the entire trading game on my platform allegedly, and prices for items are absolutely decimated because of the constant bots. For instance, we have botters who have accrued so many gold mats and other rare mats that they sell them in stores all over for 4k or less. And the undersellers push it further down.
Because of this, farming is no longer worth it AT ALL if you want to do it legitimately. I don't farm a large amount of things anymore because it's not worth my time. I'm a major trader, so it's cut deeply into my motivation to play this game. I don't touch khenarthi's, I don't farm tempers or dreugh wax anymore. And so on and so on.
It's a huge problem. It all stems from 2 to 3 main sources.
I enjoy farming. I deal with PTSD, and farming is a way for me to relax and get reward for my work as well. It's not fun or relaxing anymore since good routes are inundated by bots and I get almost nothing for my work now. Doesn't help that the RNG in this game is horrific. I only get 1 gold mat from every 400 raws most of the time. While others have said they usually get 1 every 100, and the standard is supposed to be 1 in 200. This game is unfair and no one does anything about that or the bots that crush it underfoot.
This all is part of a much worse set of issues involving cheating and monopolies and underhanded tactics and threats and toxicity. I'm not writing a 50 page post though. I'm PS4 NA. Things are garbage here.
TL;DR
Bots are ruining this game. They are constant and everywhere and nothing is done about them. Not enough by far, anyway.
The market is destroyed by them and other parts of the game that I have not gone into detail about are wrecked in certain ways, as well.
Sylvermynx wrote: »I farm everywhere on every character. I can't actually recall seeing anything I thought was a bot, but then, I don't pay much attention to others in the zones. My head is entirely on what my toon is there to do, which does generally include harvesting whatever's around other than low level mats on low level toons, since I have tens of thousands of all that - enough so that every one of my low levels can craft from now to forever. Forever.
the first bot i saw, was in delve in cyrodill, the bot was running around gathering mobs and kill them, over and over and over again. at that time i did not know what is bot, so i whispered the bot "why are u doing this" and waited for answer lol. but yes bots are very annoying. i think people who cheat in video games are the most pathetic people they can not even play game in a right way, and they need to cheat, how they live in real world is beyond me.
I’m on PC NA and honestly up to this day i’ve never seen a farming bot, unless i have but really haven’t paid any attention.
Dominion_Nightblade wrote: »I didn't report because I try to keep my distance from zos these days
lordrichter wrote: »
Isn't that goal rather moot due to ... well ... being logged into their game?
Kuramas9tails wrote: »
I wonder if ZOS can manage PC bots better than they can on console. Which if that is the case, this poll is skewed some more.
Sadly a company cant do much, every mmo has them from wow to ffxiv. As long as ppl buy from yhem they will contine. If they ban one 2 more stolen accounts appear in its place. Bots are like hydra
@MLGProPlayer I just assume ZOS doesn't have the time tbh. Too busy starting future DLCs, in process of another DLC, finishing up another DLC, coordinating/scheduling events, working on future/present patches, designing/creating new crown store items and crates, social media connections/advertising, ect.MLGProPlayer wrote: »
They can be more aggressive with detecting/banning. The game doesn't appear to have any automated cheat detection system, or if it does, the definitions for it aren't updated nearly often enough.