What would you be willing to do to get rid of bots

I'm gonna be honest here and it's gonna be very controversial, but I personally would not do anything to the bot situation. Botting is bound to happen in every game and people in west will keep buying gold making bots profitable. I personally don't mind bots, because they keep prices of farmable items low. Without bots, we would be buying our box keys, dumplings and potions for silvers instead of coppers. Without bots we would be having far less soulstones in the market making their price so much more higher. Some would argue about the soulstones that it's away from the real players, but I don't see it that way. Only people loosing money because of bots are 100% PvPers, those that after getting 45 will not do a single daily and will just PvP.

 

In arena bots should not be problem, I don't see what is the problem. They are bad because they have programming, simple task and always the same pattern. The few bots I've fought in arena broke just because I was gliding in the air. If you lose to these bots, it means you have a lot to learn. Take it as a practice before the real deal.

In EU, bots don't seem to be a too much of a problem. Last season destroyer bots ended 1700, and that was 1 week before end of the season. Right now on EU, bots end on 1600-1650.

If what I heard about NA is true, then they must have very large bot population, almost double the real arena players. For bots to be able to climb in 1900+ rating week after new season is staggering. In EU, I would be top 5 of my class with 1900 rating right now, so I clearly have not seen how bad it can get.

 

But..

Much bigger problem in my honest opinion would be arena lag and hackers. Lag is bound to happen but not at the level it's happening right now, and hackers are so much more worse than bots because they are real person.

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