Quote (fearoftdark @ Mar 10 2021 09:14pm)
Then the bot clown fiesta shall resume
Depends how aggressive they are with it.
If they are serious about keeping bots out of the economy, it is likely they will have some kind of new system in play.
There are so many easy ass methods that could be used to identify/temp suspend bots on the spot.
The thing that enables easy mass removal of bots or any unfavorable accounts, is when companies write new school kinds of TOS agreements that say shit like: "Blizzard has the right to take any action or no action against you based on reports and they don't have to explain to you why"
When they essentially remove the consumer's right to question suspends & bans, it turns into the movie "the purge"
IE:
* In older TOS formats, companies had to actually prove you were doing something wrong before suspending or banning you.
Some guy had to actually take the time to review reports and look into it personally before issuing administrative actions, otherwise he may make unfair actions and then have to back-peddle on the phone/emails with people for god knows how long, to correct unfair actions.
This is enormous hassle and waste of time for dev resources.
* With newer school TOS formats, that same dev takes 5 minutes of his day to quickly review server records that show what seems to be obvious bot activity from 2000 accounts.
If he has at least a d2sjper level of knowledge on bots, he can very quickly make approximate decisions on which accounts clearly seem to be bots, and dish out a ton of suspends in a very short amount of time.
And since consumers don't even have the right to contest this action, he wastes no time afterwards in email or on the phone having to answer to or correct anything.
For the ones caught in the suspend action that actually weren't even botting, well they just have to wait out the suspend, and maybe play while looking less like a bot next time.