bots
Amazon says it’s cracking down hard on Throne & Liberty bots
If you dip into any online discussion about Throne and Liberty, especially in regard to its population, it invariably shifts toward discussing the purported...
Old School RuneScape elevates its fight against botting, hits back against fake Varlamore leaks
Bots continue to be a constant source of conversation and presumption among the players of Old School RuneScape, particularly as Jagex made changes to...
Lost Ark warns cheaters following ‘major ban wave’ of bots and RMT accounts
Last week was apparently a bad time to be a botting or RMT account in Lost Ark, as Amazon Games whipped out its banhammer...
War Thunder details vehicle marker adjustments and bot fighting efforts in latest dev blogs
Two of the latest dev blogs to come out of War Thunder are extremely game-specific, but then that would make sense, especially for those...
Albion Online faces DDoS attacks presumably over a recent anti-botting update
It looks like Albion Online is being targeted by some angry digital racketeers if word from Sandbox Interactive is to be believed. Over the...
Lost Ark deploys a giant bot banhammer with a huge impact on concurrency
If you noticed a rather dramatic dip in Lost Ark's active playerbase numbers this week and wondered what happened, first of all, nice catch....
Lost Ark admits it’s been ‘fighting a war against bots’ since launch, banning millions of accounts
Have you spotted a bot or two in Lost Ark over the past few months? If so, you're definitely not alone. Amazon admitted on...
Massively Overthinking: Bots in MMOs – but not the bad bots
A while back on the MMORPG subreddit, there was a provocative thread about bots - no, not those bots. Essentially, the Redditor asked whether...
New World bans botters, begins testing winter event, plans unpopular endgame gear system
Christmas -- or some variation thereof -- is coming to New World as the game's first holiday. Yesterday, Amazon announced that it was putting...
New World’s latest problem appears to be… scores of fishing bots
Huh, something's fishy around New World. Looks like some bad players are angling for an edge by employing bots because they'd flounder otherwise. But...
The Daily Grind: How do you feel about bots in MMOs?
Let me be up-front with my own feelings: Bots are bad. Not robots, of course; we all know how I feel about robots. No,...
EVE Evolved: The war on bots in EVE Online
The news dropped recently that EVE Online will be adding some new limitations and restrictions to its free-to-play tier, which may seem odd to...
EVE Online updates players on its efforts in fighting against bots
Even in the cutthroat world of EVE Online, there are things you can't get away with, and one of those things is botting. The latest...
MapleStory 2 tweaks Chaos Raid weapon triggers and bans a ‘huge’ number of bots
MapleStory 2 isn't resting on its laurels since its big launch last month - Nexon is continuing work tweaking the game to suit the...
EVE Evolved: Solving EVE Online’s botting problem
Practically every MMO on the market today has had to contend with botting and the range of issues that come with it, and EVE Online...
CCP banned over 1800 EVE Online botters in January alone
If you've been paying any attention at all to EVE Online over the past few months, you know that the playerbase's anger over the...
EVE Online outlines February development, vows it’s ‘coming for the bots’
What's coming in EVE Online's February 13th patch? The game's latest development preview explains that Upwell structures will finally be getting the promised revamp, which...
Black Desert bans nearly 600 fish botters
In the war between robots and fish, the only side who wins is... wait, is there a war going between robots and fish? Well,...
Legendary pokemon are teased for Pokemon Go as a new anti-cheat measure auto-bans bots
Remember how last summer was all about Pokémon Go? That's probably not going to happen again this year, but the team behind the game...
Neverwinter is closing down the Gateway client
The Gateway site is not an integral part of Neverwinter, but it's a pretty advantageous portion of the game; it's a web-based service allowing...
