Clearly, its botportant

I have personally noticed a huge decrease in the number of botting toons in all 5 zones unique to Ebonheart Pact in the last 24 hours.

There are several posts about how ZOS have taken action against botters today, There are evern posts on sites such as Reddit and Google+ where people have made comments to the effect of "I was in a dungeon/zone today and I saw a GM start to action and ban botting characters".

These all started going up about 20 hours ago, and through my travels until the servers went down for maintenance tonight, there has been absolutely no botters in any of the Stonefall, Deshaan, Shadowfen, Eastmarch or The Rift solo dungeons that I went into on any of my 3 toons spread over those zones.

I even noticed that the swamp in Deshaan was void of any botters today where yesterday when I logged out there, was littered shoulder to shoulder with auto follow/auto attacking botters.

I think that ZOS have taken action, and it has been evident not just for me, but for other players too.

Apparently OP has never played a NC Soft game. While I think the starting zones of this game are pretty bad, every square inch of Aion was dominated by bots, and major cities were so full of spam it was laughable. The difference in NC Soft games is years later and you still see the same issues. We will see if these guys let it slide

Zazar wrote: »

Blah blah. Useless thread.

Ditto comment.

The botting problem is a huge issue in this would-be "immersive" game. The threads should continue spamming this forum until something drastic is done. "A round of bans and some promises of banning" has done nothing to stop this.

At least PvE is playable...Cyrodiil is still plagued by problems that were brought to their attention from 8 months ago by beta testers

BrassRazoo wrote: »

I have never played WoW, but the last MMO I played had in game GMs monitoring World Chat and were available to ask questions and also complain to.
I'm not sure how common this is but if only an in game GM would pop in and say "Hi" to the World every now and then and go and look at these bots and either ban them directly or a stern warning at least.
Some of the happening in this game are rather depressing. I really hope they employ people just as monitors to look around and report every now and then.

You just explained exactly what the GM's in ESO have been doing.

There's been GM's in Coldharbor constantly to fix everyone's quests and make sure they can progress, there's been bots banned constantly from public dungeons, etc. They're working hard but having GM's do all of the policing is a bandaid fix; it's a poor system and costs too much money. The solution is to fix the bugs, and have script to break automation. The script part is extraordinarily tricky, but I'm sure they're working on something that doesn't require them to throw excess money and personnel at the issue constantly.

At the height of botting in WoW, it was way worse. People have these ridiculous rose colored glasses about WoW, the game is like Teflon, nothing bad every sticks to it.

It had the worst release in MMO history, the worst account compromise in MMO history, the worst botting in MMO history, the list goes on. It's no wonder it's a target for all of this being so large and successful, but to say anything else is worse is asinine. I was in Battlegrounds that had more bots than humans. Tyr's Hand and the Hearthglen were so infested with bots at release it was comical.

It's crazy how perfect everyone expects an MMO to be at not even a month old, yet the only MMO that has ever launched without problems (relatively) was Rift.

beeso wrote: »

Greetings.

I am honestly happy how quickly they've responded to my reports
however the authorities have to investigate actual violations of law, this
processes takes a very long time to remove these illegal company's.

They do everything possible for the safety of us customers and I bet
they are working on ways to combat the bots as we speak.

Sounds like something a Botter would say, I bet if they stop taking money from them and actually banned these accounts that the problem wouldn't be so bad. And just because they respond doesn't mean the bots are going away anytime soon...they make money on all those accounts. The problem is they don't realize how many people will quit over it, soon it will be just bots and the few Die Hards that will defend a broken game because they are epic White Knights

FilthyRatBastard wrote: »

I bet if they stop taking money from them and actually banned these accounts that the problem wouldn't be so bad. And just because they respond doesn't mean the bots are going away anytime soon...they make money on all those accounts

They did this already, in the last 24 hours in fact. The bots have been getting banned.

We should report him for using the chat color mod that ruins my immersion.

Vlas wrote: »

Clearly, its botportant

I see what you did there. No one else did, but I did.

Schmackei wrote: »

there has been absolutely no botters in any of the Stonefall, Deshaan, Shadowfen, Eastmarch or The Rift solo dungeons that I went into on any of my 3 toons spread over those zones. quote]

I had to laugh at this one comment you made. Why would there be anyone else other than yourself in a solo dungeon?

ebuntsb14_ESO wrote: »

Schmackei wrote: »

there has been absolutely no botters in any of the Stonefall, Deshaan, Shadowfen, Eastmarch or The Rift solo dungeons that I went into on any of my 3 toons spread over those zones.

I had to laugh at this one comment you made. Why would there be anyone else other than yourself in a solo dungeon?

Because the dungeons that you go into without being in a group, are called solo dungeons. they do not signify that you are alone in them, just that you do not need a group to do them. It is the official name that Bethesda gave to the dungeons that everyone has been complaining about bots in.

Blu3d0gd3m0cr8ts wrote: »

They haven't taken enough action. The bots are still there. I keep hearing the "its a new game" excuse but the fact remains that ESO has the worst botter problem of any MMO out there. Its seriously bad. there are so many you tube vids and screen shot of this problem all over these forums , yet people still deny its an issue. We should demand satisfaction for the money we paid to play this game. We as players don't owe this company anything, as we aren't charging the company to play the game, they owe us. period. Fix it soon or you will lose your community and end up on stream to die a slow death.

It has the worst *current* botter problem because it's the newest triple A MMO to release, so the cash cow is there for gold sellers to milk.

WoW was way worse when it launched, and is still bad. You can never cure the problem, just like you can never rid the internet of viruses. People will always find script/code that works around a preventative measure. Look at the problems Steam's had with VAC - it takes weeks for a VAC ban to happen after a compromise has been detected, and by the time VAC detects a new compromise, the people writing the hacks have already come up with a new one. Even in biology, this is how the flu, cold, etc works, by mutating the strain slightly so they can bypass the natural defenses of the body.

You can never cure the problem, you can only make it so inconvenient for them that it's not worth the money. WoW still hasn't mastered this, they have bots, but the bigger problem there is account compromise. Be thankful we're discussing bots and not that.

Crap I didn't mean to call anyone out...just they ban so many names without any kind of reason, that it made me laugh.
Looking back, it is Sweat Pants Tiffy...sorry for any confusion