No they haven't. Silly for anyone to think that way really.

What can you win, its an MMO? Confused

The invisible, underground, speed, levitating, invincible hacking bots running around gathering trade skill nodes - Yes . They are much harder to catch an report and are getting away with blatant hacking of the client. Still no clue how ZoS is allowing this in the game.

If they can do it in PVE, what is stopping them from getting bored and moving to PVP. I mean there are already a few post popping up of folks taking invisible damage in PVP with no clue where it's coming from. My bet is it's one of those bot hackers that has gotten bored, and sitting in their comfy chair laughing their *insert donkey image here* off.

The bots farming mobs and dungeons, I don't think they have actually won the battle yet, but there is still a battle being waged and the outcome is "iffy".

I feel the bots are winning simply because they limit my purchasing decisions and make Bleakrock a pain to find any materials on. I say that because the bots endlessly farm jute, iron ore, and maple in order to farm upgrade materials. These are then sold to players en masse at such a cost to encourage buying gold. That means to me that if I buy any upgrade materials, or heck any crafting material at all, I'm supporting the botters and gold sellers. I also can't craft anything for myself in the lowby zones, which in turn hurts my ability to level up crafting on my alts.

And pray tell, what does Zeni do about it? Once in a while a GM comes along, announces that they came to smash some bots, and proceeds to do so. By that, they mean they just kill the suspected bot so we can dance on its corpse. No bans, no account closures, nothing lasting in nature. I can't fathom why this is the case; it's certainly not for money, because if they close the accounts they can get the gold sellers to pony up more money by buying the game again (which in turn helps bolster sales numbers, impressing investors) which is far more of an investment than a month's subscription. Unless of course the account activation codes are so easy to spoof that botters just make them on the fly, in which case ESO is doomed.

While I'm glad they do something at all, it's too small in scale and to rare an occurrence for me to say that the bots are in danger of losing any time soon.

Was there a contest?

I voted yes, because they seem really desperate to be annoying as whoa, even going so far as to send PMs on the forums.

ThreeEyedCrow wrote: »

I haven't seen a "bot" since the second week of the game.

Definitely haven't seen any in Vet zones or Cyrodiil

I am a little confused what you people are doing to see so many bots when I see none.

Maybe you are in the level 10-30 zones.

Excuse me but there are bots all over the place. Why the hell does it matter what zone they are in, because you have one character and he's at the higher levels. Yup, that makes so much sense. New players start at lower levels. ZOS needs to do something about this and quickly. They can check accounts. You want to know the real problem, they haven't invested people into it full time else the bots would have a major dent in them.

I am getting really tired of reporting the numerous bots and gold sellers every time I play. Has anyone ever seen a GM on the EU server? Our lowbie zones are full of bots teleporting to harvest, reddit seems to have every other day a report of the newest bot hub, and zone chat is full of complaints about the bot presence.

They really need to get their act together.

Not yet is a better answer than no.......but it is getting pretty close.

RianaTheBosmer wrote: »

Funny, but if you not seen a single bot since second week, I am wondering what you been doing not to see one?

Cyrodiil mostly and Vet zones. Not saying there aren't bots in the starter zones, just saying they aren't in Cyrodiil for sure and I haven't seen them in the Vet zones.

Yes. I was questing in Bleakrock earlier today and saw 4 different groups of bots running from node to node. Going right over the various npcs. I try to report them but I end up doing more reporting than playing. It's just sad.

NordJitsu wrote: »

I don't think my gameplay has ever been negatively affected by bots. I really don't see why bots and gold spammers are such big issues, but I'm apparently in a minority there.

I'd honestly appreciate it if someone could explain to me why seeing a bot or receiving a gold spam mail is so disruptive to their play.

The gold spam I can deal with I turn off chat the mails no biggy...but the bots…

It is not about seeing them it is more about racing to get nodes. I love to craft and quest and run about and gather. I play to relax. When I am racing packs of bots to resources and end up never gaining any because they hack the game it is a bit too much for a legit player like me. I don't feel like I am enjoying my game time if I am bot racing to gather and even some quests now.

Has nothing to do with immersion for me it is all about the frustration...I can't relax and enjoy it is not worth playing.

Bots are in most all mmo's but here it is so in your face because they are all on a mega server bunched up… that’s how I see it anyway...
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Some will be able to tolerate it some won't …hope it gets sorted out.

Happy Hunting

No bot emperor, and no bots rocking out in vr10 that Ive noticed, so. . . not yet.

Of course not.

The game hasn't been out for 2 months yet, it's way too early to give up and call a victor.

For me as long as there are bots, they are winning.