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Trainingmacro wrote:

This comment tells me that you either don't have chat opened or don't play the game. Advert bots fill 1/4th of the screen, that is AREA, with their garbage. Thus for as long as that message stays there, players are handicapped because they are missing 1/4th of their screen. The messages not only obscures the screen but stays on for seconds, which is pretty much enough for any player to run themselves into a death trap they cannot see. The dots take up far less and visual space stay visible for less than a second. So the dots not only scroll out the spam, they also hide faster. If you actually played, you would understand this.

I use chat occassionally. I will admit most of the time it is in 820 or 5055 but will go to the default chats sometimes too just to watch chat. I've never really seen many advert bots at all. I haven't used chat since the dot spam started because the dots are infinitely more annoying than the bot.

GGG can take more preventative measures. But GGG has made it clear that in the meantime, the bots are muted shortly after their messages. They could probably implement something that removes their chat messages when muted or something but the dot spams are in fact annoying as hell. I will take a huge ass block of advert text any day of the week.

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And I hear her now
And I'm nearer to
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