Zenimax is making no attempt to stop bots there are literally TONS of them running round the starter islands in each faction. they speedhack they teleport above and below ground at will and they steal nodes before the node even shows up, we tried to warn zen during beta that the restrictions they were imposing on players in the form of AH limitations and bag space limitations and other abilities would lead to a complete bot infestation because the market opportunity of selling gold in this game would be huge and we have been proven right, its been what 2 months since launch? and the bots are totally uncontrolled

r.ridenbaugh_ESO wrote: »

pavelcherepanskyrwb17_ESO wrote: »

I think they haven't. Lately I've stopped seeing as many bots as there were before.

1% lost somewhere! Yes - 46%, No - 53%

The bots stole the 1%

The poll software seems to always round down, so actually seeing a precise 100% requires the moons to align.

in lower level zones, yes. They keep using that bot port... thing, and keep porting to and taking resources; forcing people to buy them from others. in vet zones? not yet. but give it time

the point is they still need to be dealt with and you guys ignoring the bots are part of the problem not the solution, honestly anyone who cares about ESO and its survival needs to take a look at fast report and get to work reporting these bots ive got 15 so far today just on bleakrock

oh wow did I just get banned for reporting bots? I suddenly cant seem to log in......

I've just reported a gold selling spammer whose name started with 'Sellinggold' then the website, including the 'www' and the 'com' bits. That to me is the ultimate sign that the sellers have won. People are starting to give up reporting as they don't feel anything is being done about it.
What's even worse, earlier I reported a stream of bots, all level 2, all looking exactly the same running around a dungeon.....in Coldharbour! All using the speed hack as well. Only reason I got them, they all stopped to talk to an npc.

seriously guys what you all need to do is get fast report and go to town ont hese bots if everyone spends a couple hours a day reporting these bots we WILL get rid of them

The bots haven't won. I see them warping around Bleakrock the whole time but they don't impact on my game-play one iota, they even warp past most nodes and leave them for me. The question of whether they impact on one's game-play is the determining factor in whether they've won or not, and in my case I haven't the slightest hesitation in saying they haven't won at all.

I voted "NO" because this kinds of "BOT ARMY" happens at the beginning of all the MMO's. As the coders seal the leaks, they will become a minimal annoyance.

Their market is being depleted. While they grasp at straws... I've kept track of their emails and their prices are going down instead of up... normally this would be due to a lack of expense... however it is believed that this may now be due to a lack of market. How can the bots hope to continue their profits when everything they're trying to offer can be acquired by players relatively easily? There will always be a market for leveling... that's always been a problem with every MMO... but their market for epic tempers, legendary items, gold, and motifs has at this point been removed.

I mentioned in another post that the market for motifs was destroyed and while people confused me for wanting it restored... I simply stated that increasing difficulty would help. Although at this point being that so many people (real players) have farmed up not only motifs, but mats, epics, recipes, etc... to the point of having vast quantities on the market at all times... I think the bots are literally hanging on by a thread.

The only thing that is remaining is perhaps a required rethink on Zenimax's billing policy. We have already shoved off all the players who simply wanted to slip in for their free month and bail... although it's how I was billed that concerns me... I was billed AFTER the free period for the game time. If Zenimax made it to where you pay in advance when activating the account... it would cut into the profits of these bots taking advantage of the free month SIGNIFICANTLY.

Example: Trial periods can be used one after another... items and gold exchanging hands just before the time expires on the previous account... credit card information removed (if it was a valid credit card in the first place)... and the cycle can continue. If they pay instead for their time on day 1 in order to activate the account... every ban would be a loss of the month subscription price, game price, and likely a loss of their items and gold. In ALL forms of war... it comes down to resources and profitability. Also... having a credit card history and personal history connected to said card... could lead to being able to bring charges and banning of the person(s).

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/104006/bot-problem#latest

I haven't seen any bots since coldharbour, they are a pain in sub 50 areas though.

I voted yes, but only "for now". The fact that they so blatently teleport and fly all over zones, just right there in your face, makes me feel this way. In all the other MMO's I've played I've never seen such outright blatent scripted/automated bots piling up in such numbers and getting away with it. It really seems to me that they should be hiring or bringing on some extra staff as GMs JUST to sit and have that be their primary role, killing the obvious trains of them teleporting and flying around. I know they are doing that in the background, but the few days they sent out systems messages with a GM's name saying he was ONLINE and KILLIN BOTS was the best system message I've ever seen. Obvuiously he got flooded offline by the billions of players messaging him, but if they had a few people like that in every main zone that would be enough for them to run around the zone and take out bots every day to keep the playerbase exponentially happier.

ive not seen a spear conga once in VR areas. but they were all over the place in 1-50 areas

Seems relevant again.