Free to play = infinite bots

Just saying. NOT flaming or hating

Without any limitation to games active, people will be able to run 100's and more bots at once. We saw it in D2, but at least there you had to pay 5 to 10 dollars for one account (still worth it).

In D2 i had 4 accounts extra, but in PoE I feel like so urged to get more... in the future.

Perhaps
If you want you can name some counters to this ability so we can have a small talk, but afaik there aren't many.

Goldfarmers gonna have a hard time in PoE since... there is no gold and yeah, while there surely will be running some bots its a much lesser issue due to the games economy

purchase your own league and play solo with your bots ?

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Mr_Smith wrote:

Goldfarmers gonna have a hard time in PoE since... there is no gold and yeah, while there surely will be running some bots its a much lesser issue due to the games economy

Unfortunately, as we have learned from D2, not having a gold economy will not stop the game getting infested by bots. D2 trading was based mostly around runes, gold was nearly worthless. I'm not exactly sure how GGG will be able to handle bots, but I heard one plan was to shoot them down with lasers. As far as I know Chris and his team have a lot of knowledge in the field of security software, so hopefully they will find a way to combat the influence of botting on the game. Personally, I would not mind entering a captcha while a new instance is loading, but for many players this would be unacceptable.

You didn't have to pay for additional accounts in diablo 2.

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Hellgate:London had this 4 digit secutity code thing that it asked you to enter every once in a while.You had to mouse click on the numbers on the screen,and the places were randomized every time.Seems okay to me.

Given it is a free to play game, I think a Captcha now and then, on loading is a nice idea, is more than acceptable compared to some of the obtrusive elements I have seen in other free to play games.

I believe GGG said something about a hidden Bot-Detection that should make it hard to get working bots.

It's also pretty obvious if players (bots) rerun the same instances and as they farm they will level which lowers the currency item droprate. I'm not sure about all of this so if someone could confirm it'd be appreciated.

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Charan wrote:

Given it is a free to play game, I think a Captcha now and then, on loading is a nice idea, is more than acceptable compared to some of the obtrusive elements I have seen in other free to play games.

Capchas are useless. I learned the hard way trying to find a Captcha that would actually prevent spam on a phpBB board. There are extensive databases of Captcha answers as well as algorithms that can solve them. I had to switch to questions I make up myself that are obvious to humans but don't have a clear answer when put into Google. Since these sorts of questions also eventually get stored in databases, GGG would have to have someone dedicated to writing new challenge questions fairly frequently.

A Blizzard Warden-style memory scanning algorithm is a better solution, though it hardly works as well as one would hope for Blizzard.

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MorriganGrey wrote:

Capchas are useless.

This, the only thing they would serve to do is piss legit players off