What they should do is freeze the earmarked accounts so they canāt quicksell those items. Maybe theyāll do a rollbackā¦ Iām sure someone will find something and get mad that they lost it.
I think the people saying āOh quick turn it off!ā is hilariousā¦ Theyāve already got the people earmarked for banning before they even start the banwaveā¦ Detection, earmarked, confirmation, banwave. Boom boom boom boom. Turning it off when news breaks of a banwave aināt gonna do squat.
They need to add another step, which is a global and synchronized freezing of all accounts that are going to be banned, that way these people canāt mass sell items, or transfer them to safehaven accounts.
I think they should be instantaneous as soon as bot runner tries loading the game with the bot for the first time, but I know that is unrealistic. There has to be a timeframe to detect and confirm. Since bots are constantly evolving to dodge detection methods, the detection methods must also evolve.
No, that would be stupid. Hackers are very smart, they use every possibility to bypass anti-cheat machanisms. The earlier you ban bots, the more information you give bot developers on how the bot got detected.
Ban waves have to be rare but huge in order to give as little information as possible.
OK. If your statement is true, I just had a portion of my past ~20 years of gaming history just blink out of existence. (I had a 5 year hiatus from Diablo 2 2012-2017)
I mean to be fairā¦ no amount of tech is going to make people less crappy. The same group of people complain about bots, are the same people that scream ābut mah personal data!ā
People arenāt willing to give companies the control theyād need to fix these issues, so what can you do. Itās like screaming ādefund the policeā then complaining when crime increases.