And if they remove them then they will need to remove them from not just the market but from every player who has them, doing that reduces profit.
Not at all. They could change all the names to remove both the team names on the next update everywhere without any fuss at all. They’d probably rise in price. Or they could convert them to 200 GE sellable skins purchaseable in game and take them out of the trophy box and the market altogether. Still make money for the artist or whatever.
Scaring people to stop botting and cheating, or lose their accounts (and any other associated privileges like a custom skin the company made just for you and your friends) will remove a lot more botters and cheating than the bans will. The harder they bring the hammer down here, the better.
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Scaring them wont stop them those 4,000 banned accounts are burner accounts made on mass that don’t effect their user, for every one of those they ban their creator can just make more and will, all it’s doing is just giving them a good show and setting up the pot for something worse.
Even I have been called a bot before and subject to users trying to get others to spam report me just because I don’t play like they do and rush straight into the fight and die, since I use my tactical mind and fight smarter and not harder in most cases I tend to look like a bot and fly very smoothly, does that make me a bot?
Most of the bots actions are still very rudimentary most players do the same basic rudimentary actions in the game and act like bots from a distance some don’t even bother using chat functions either, does that mean their bots now too? How long before they start banning players simply for acting like a bot the snail has falsely banned players in the past.
Personally I think they should just leave them alone they help supplement the player base and ease the struggle of the matchmaker since some Br.'s are dead. They also give an easy kill here and there before they start programing them to actually be able to dogfight, what will the snail do then?
They can create a new account, but they will have to invest for a new premium.
And the people who bought such an account once may not want to repeat that mistake. The message will be spread too.
Were they tho? Like, they were hurting the playerbase but they were also buying a top tier premium on each of those bots.
Honestly banning them will also make botters buy more stuff for the new bots they make. So it’s also profits that r probably behind all that.
Seriously, please just once read a thread before you blurt out your uninformed opinion.
The guy from 2012 who lost 2,000 vehicles wasn’t a “burner account”.
The guy who complained because 10 years of progress was wiped wasn’t a “burner account”.
The 58 accounts from the top 100 all had many many premiums, now all gone. Not “burner accounts.”
The guy who was both aimbotting and boat botting in the YouTube video wasn’t a “burner account.”
The 5 accounts who were caught for cheating in tournaments weren’t “burner accounts.”
I mean, those are all right in this thread if you bothered to read it. But you didn’t.
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Bro they busted people in the tourneys rofl doubt they where botting… But yea booting bots is pretty easy hope they ready for the real challenge
The House always wins…
Nonsense buddy, most of these accounts were simply sold and what the new users did with them has nothing to do with the tournaments.
For most of us, i.e. owners of the e100, which we put a lot of effort into acquiring, at that time the vehicle became of little value after many years.
The amount of actual cheating at tournaments was negligible
Many players spent a lot of time checking replays of various tournaments
everyone was watching out for each other.
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great work!
It’s a good start.
But there are still some fishy dudes out there.
But i really like that it feels like Gaijin is doing something
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“Negligible”… They permabanned five longtime players from game forever for cheating and completely upended the winner tables of all the 11th anniversary tank tournaments. That was literally yesterday.
“The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.” (link)
If Gaijin really wants a bot-free environment they should ban all the botters. Yesterday was the first time, in the history of the game, they have ever announced the banning of air RB or naval RB botters en masse (as well as the five tournament cheaters). Any player who actually cares about this game should support them in this and encourage them to continue.
Similarly, if Gaijin really wants cheating-free tournaments, then they shouldn’t be selling camoes glorifying the teams whose members were found to be cheating. Bring the hammer down, don’t be seen to play favorites, encourage fairness. These are not hard answers.
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Seeing as EAC in WT is years out of date, they’ve actually investigated reports on him so no, he’s not banned for no reason.
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Majority of bots I have seen aren’t running in premiums nor would they need it since all the bot does is spawn bomb and die most of the time, their turnover time from match to match means they don’t need them.
If you believe that corporate speech of “their using bots just to make accounts to sell” then you need to take a vacation, majority of the bots came into effect due to the pathetically poor economy in the game and not to make sellable accounts if the snail cared about that they would go after the sites that host accounts for sale, even Nintendo is willing to not only go from one end of the earth to the other but also across the entire globe and back to serve legal papers.
The only message being spread is the bots are here and here to stay sorry to burst your bubble.
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You are referring to the select few caught cheating in which case yes they deserved it, it wont stop them they will just make new accounts and be back the ones from the eSports teams will possibly even return to those teams or make new ones and start over.
I was referring to the other half which they “claim” to have been bots which I personally doubt are even real numbers since they give no evidence to support this number, anyone can fudge numbers.
I chose to disregard those using 3rd party cheats as they were irrelevant to “my” conversation regarding the bots, the snail has recently focused the majority of their attention on them due to the fact they make users grinds easier and the majority of them are not to make accounts to sell either, this isn’t the first time they have tried to make users grinds harder nor will it be the last its just this time they will lose.
It’s ok not everyone pays attention.
You can look at any of the 4,000 accounts banned for botting in game, anyone can. Almost every one had, and primarily used, at least one premium. That is how base bombing botting and naval botting works, economically. Please, find one account that doesn’t fit that description (that isn’t obviously some other offense like calling themselves “eva elfie.”). We’ll wait.
You continue to say things in this thread that are just factually obviously wrong, out of some misguided attempt to defend other players who cheat. It’s just baffling behavior.
I mean it’s just as bizarre as when you say competitive esports players who play full lineups with fully aced crews, won’t be at all inconvenienced now if they have to restart on a new account from level one with nothing. I mean, you realize that makes no sense when you write it, right?
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Yes they are using premiums. Why do you think the market was being ddosed during this sale? My bet is the chicoms got mad they couldn’t mass buy premiums for their bot accounts that they are planning to sell later on after boosting them.
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proves that majority were bots instead of cheaters
Your anti cheat isnt working against cheaters and you know that. I ran into 2 last night within a 2 hour time span who were blatantly cheating.
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It’s also illegal under EU & US law @Bruce_R1
The fact Bruce is advocating for Gaijin to break financial law & screw over players is honestly the most anti-consumer thing I’ve ever heard on the forums.
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