More bots than players?

[Fast]

Seeing trains of 100+ bots running around ...as a norm, seeing the prices of auction house either skyrocket because of manipulation or rock bottom depending on item.

At this point maybe NCSOFT are botting themselves with how many there is.

[Fast]

i told you. more bots than players...pfft

[LORD]

I checked every day for the numbers of players here:
https://steamdb.info/app/2429640/charts/
And yesterday I gathered and repplied to 7 threads with many repplies each from other players, all complaining and witnessing the bots, players from different servers, witnessing bots on different locations, doing different activities.

It is real. It is widespread. It is sad.

So it raised my awareness to the gravity of the situation, specifically for the REAL ACCOUNTING OF THE NUMBER OF PLAYERS.

Many players are deceived thinking the game is alive and well and remain playing it, without knowing if the numbers are true, or inflated artificially, by either botting or by programs with no graphical interface that cause steam to perceive a game as being played, even though its just an accounted logged: some people use it to get the steam game cards, but it can definitelly be used to ARTIFICIALLY INFLATE THE NUMBERS OF PLAYERS, and thus manipulate the perception of a game being dead or alive. Many such manipulation of steam numbers and ratings exist I fear.

Everyone wants to be on the game that is ALIVE AND WELL.

I think the game population is going down as more and more people awake to these (bots, multiaccounts, multiboxing) and other problems of all kinds that the game is filled with.

[Kornpatch]

Originally posted by Tanyon:

Would love to see some evidence of this.. I have 90 hours in this game and have never once seen a chain of bots all walking around together not a single time..

sure, https://youtu.be/LVuKALLhv20

[Willow]

Same thing as happened in New World, and nothing was done about it...naked farmers with weird names making no sense (random letters) running all over.

[Nightcodex✅]

Originally posted by Tanyon:

Would love to see some evidence of this.. I have 90 hours in this game and have never once seen a chain of bots all walking around together not a single time..

haha go check purelight area at boars and mitran MANY BOTS

[Lane Boy]

Originally posted by Tanyon:

Would love to see some evidence of this.. I have 90 hours in this game and have never once seen a chain of bots all walking around together not a single time..

Sure, here is on Kazar: https://youtu.be/PxLD6onziHo

[Scheneighnay]

Originally posted by Nightcodex✅:

Originally posted by Tanyon:

Would love to see some evidence of this.. I have 90 hours in this game and have never once seen a chain of bots all walking around together not a single time..

haha go check purelight area at boars and mitran MANY BOTS

again as some people have pointed out already, they seem to only be a problem on newer servers as older ones are still at high capacity.

[DocBockNstein]

They even show up in dungeons now it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ trash.

[PrazerEric]

Personally, I don't see any problems with bot farming, the problem is in Dungeons, World Bosses and PvP

[Alejandro]

I heared people complain about the bots, but I personally didnt see any bot farms in 50 hours I played

[Mad Max]

Yeah the bot problem is getting out of hand.

I hope they get a handle on it soon, it will eventually kill the game.

[Scheneighnay]

Originally posted by PrazerEric:

Personally, I don't see any problems with bot farming, the problem is in Dungeons, World Bosses and PvP

I'm still wondering how bot farming even works, because again, there is no direct trading

[Mijati_GER]

Originally posted by Tanyon:

Would love to see some evidence of this.. I have 90 hours in this game and have never once seen a chain of bots all walking around together not a single time..

oO udont see chain of bots .. maybe u check the single farming bots in farm sports who basicaly farming all day the same mobs ..
each server is full of bots ......

[Agemos]

It still amazes me how in the face of overwhelming evidence, not just player reports but video evidence, there will always be a few people that say "i don't see them your making them up. Everything is fine."

It's like mmo players are so desperate for something new, anything new that isn't 10+ years old they get Stockholm syndrome right away.

Maybe it is true, mmo as a genre is dead.. 50 years from now a top mmorpg list will hit you on neural link and its still going to be WoW, FF, GW2, runescape... and an ad for a new tab target that will totally change the genre by doing the exact same thing over and over and playing like its from the dialup era..and people will get hyped for some reason.

[Melsyndra]

Originally posted by Tanyon:

Would love to see some evidence of this.. I have 90 hours in this game and have never once seen a chain of bots all walking around together not a single time..

i think i managed to get some footage of a bot player in a dungeon run i did last night, right not they are a bit "sloppy"