bots
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...
Overwatch banwave crashes into cheaters
For some of Overwatch's cheaters, August 1st could be the date that lives in infamy.
From the sound of it, it looks like Blizzard triggered...
Black Desert’s biggest bot creator is being sued by Daum
The maker of the most popular bot for Black Desert has been forced to take his creation offline following a lawsuit started by Daum's...
Tree of Savior names and shames banned bots and goldsellers
We have a deeply personal question for you: Are you a bot? Because if so, you might be banned from Tree of Savior right...
ELOA deploys new raid dungeon, tackles spammers
ELOA's latest patch, The Lost Temple, has deployed today, with its chief addition being a raid dungeon by that same name. Need more motivation...
World of Warcraft goes on the offensive against bots
World of Warcraft botters, beware: Blizzard is coming after you hard. The studio said yesterday that it has leveled the banhammer against several accounts...
