XBOX Botting Accounts Banned

ZOS_Kevin · May 20

Hi All. Earlier this week, we proactively identified and banned a large group of Xbox ESO accounts that were being set up to begin botting activities. Please continue to report bot farms to us so we can continue to action them. Thank you.

Bobby_Digital81 · May 20

Awesome to hear this! I don't play on Xbox, I play on PS/NA and for years there has been thousands of farm bots on our server. I haven't seen them for almost a year now. I figured you guys have set up ways to catch them before they roll out now. Glad to see you guys are proactive on removing these accounts.

Radiate77 · May 20

Great thing to get a handle on before Crossplay!

Ankael07 · May 20

Didnt even know you could bot on console

DenverRalphy · May 20

Ankael07 wrote: »

Didnt even know you could bot on console

They're not as effective or efficient on console, but they have the advantage that they can repopulate as quickly as they get banned (ie.. install ESO on a PS5, and you can have unlimited accounts using that one single install). Now with Xbox play anywhere, bots can be much more versatile and effective because running on a PC it's much easier to do more than simply emulate controller inputs. Though I'm not fluent enough in all things Xbox to know how it affects the ability to repopulate with shared access to the install like it can on console.

Bobby_Digital81 · 5:29PM

Seeing accounts and alt accounts selling materials that were farmed by bots over the years, they were very effective and efficient seeing as they had hundreds or thousands of bots farming for that stuff daily. There was a huge issue on PS/NA, and I'm sure with the other console platforms. You see people hanging out at the bankers all day, listing stuff or grabbing mats from shared guild banks. People listing gold mats and jewelry ones but having low CP. They aren't farming for those mats...so where do they come from? Then you see the same groups of players hanging out at the public auctions, auctioning off lots of mats that bots usually are farming for. Stacks and stacks of mats that no one is actually farming for. Granted, there are people that do daily crafting writs...but where are all the stacks of decorative wax, mudcrab chitin, pewter dust, etc coming from?