Botting as a tactical assault by the "intelligence" community.

Phinix1

I would be in no way surprised to discover that 90% of these bots are run by the NSA and other government, military/industrial and intelligence organizations doing organized griefing campaigns.

They evaluated the release of a major genre title like this as a high profile target, something a large percentage of a significant demographic (the voting age youth demographic) had expressed an interest in, something they looked forward to, something that fell under their jurisdiction to monitor under the new era of internet surveillance, and assigned a contingent of techno-goons to perpetrate these bot campaigns for the specific purpose of causing frustration, disengagement, and demoralization, to intentionally sabotage the community.

This authoritarian government has already made it clear they consider gaming in the same genre as drug use; something for degenerates and deadbeats, and people with low socioeconomic priority.

What better way to stick it to your enemy than to poison something they considered sacred? It would be like, seeing the trend in several states in America to decriminalize marijuana, hiring a covert team of scientists to genetically re-ingineering a popular strain to artificially induce schizophrenia, just to spite people you didn't personally agree with or find to be of immediate financial value to some draconian capitalist agenda.

One last volley in the war on drugs. One more slap in the face of the "lost generation," to punish those "useless gamers" not gobbling up our lifestyle products.

Hyperbole aside, I wouldn't put it past them.

cisadanepajsuxrwb17_ESO

This is so true on so many levels. I have just discussed this moments ago with my great pal elvis before he dropped me in my front porch with his ufo, he said he gotta pick up tom cruise for a dinner or sumthin'

Slash8915

Achievement Unlocked: Mad Tinfoil Hatter

stefaan.de.wasch1b16_ESO

And this goes on the Costumer Support part of this forum why exactly ?

Slash8915

stefaan.de.wasch1b16_ESO wrote: »

And this goes on the Costumer Support part of this forum why exactly ?

Well, obviously... He posted it in the "Costumer Support" page because he's the mad hatter.

speker3

Just a heads up, this thread violates the code of conduct.

I can count more then 3 topics covered in this post that are in direct Violation.
- Political Discussion
- Illegal substance mentions
- Conspiracy Theories
Here is a link to the Code of Conduct for these forums so you can avoid further violations in the future.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/60843/community-code-of-conduct/

Nordak

It's not the Intel community, Were trying to enjoy the game, unfortunately Chinese bots are besieging our sacred hangout. We like you, non government contractors, have taken an bot to the knee, and have decided to move back to TES3 Morrowind.

revanghost

OP is AlienDiplomat

I approve of this thread.

Phinix1

speker3 wrote: »

Just a heads up, this thread violates the code of conduct.

I can count more then 3 topics covered in this post that are in direct Violation.
- Political Discussion
- Illegal substance mentions
- Conspiracy Theories
Here is a link to the Code of Conduct for these forums so you can avoid further violations in the future.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/60843/community-code-of-conduct/

Read it more carefully.

-Political discussion not expressly forbidden, nor is this particularly political.
-Illegal substance mention? It was a harmless analogy!
-The "conspiracy theory" clause pertains explicitly to spreading defamatory "theories" about ZOS, specifically.

Semantics aside, I realize such a practice can hardly be proven, at least not definitively, but I maintain it would be right up their alley.

ZOS_TristanK

We're closing this thread as it is unrelated to Customer Support and nonconstructive. We understand that bots are frustrating, and are working hard to purge them from ESO. Thank you.