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Nexon, please address the botting situation.
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Its watercat. Don't try looking for logic there.
Can bots solve Russian Captchas? I know most people here can't, but just wondering.
Short answer: yes.
Long answer: pretty much any forms of character based captcha can be beaten by optical character recognition software
Because clearly every single forum account that makes ten threads in under a minute with the same content in each of them is clearly a legit user. And every time I see a player doing the same task in the same place ten hours at a time nonstop with zero chat interactions or attempts to say something to me while I stalk them are also entirely legit users.
Some of them are probably legitimate second accounts/characters of normal people, but there are a lot of red flags being raised with how these Belvast shops are cropping up with different characters entirely every other hour when old characters 'disconnect'. Saying that we should ignore them all because there are probably real people is shoving a massive issue under the carpet.
That can be true, but its kind of obvious on the forums. I mean, the mods seriously can't be "approving" every account that comes through.
EDIT I DIDN'T MEAN TO POST THAT WITH JUST THE QUOTES.
That bolded bit is why I made my post. If you're going to just defend all of them as legit players you might as well be ignoring the issue. But in the end our endless squabbling about it won't be what fixes it: that's up to Nexon.
More like my mouse did a nice bork and I'm a slow typer.
Heck they could apply this limit to ALL forum members. Even the spammist attention-seekers don't need to make threads more than every hour.
Bots are the most annoying thing, on Mabi and on the forums.
Half the time I go shopping, someone says hi to me and then I can't see it in the chat logs and then they think I'm ignoring them because they have the bot blacklisted -3-
Also, I've had to ping VFMs a million times lately because the spam is really bad. I do suggest updating the method of acceptance into The forums, but we really need more VFMs as well...
Multi-boxing is only available through modding, and apparently someone is abusing mods to set up a botting market specifically designed for gold farming. You can deny it sure, turn your nose at it, or even flat out say something opposite to cover your own butts. However this is more than obvious, and it is what it is.
The truth is that these people are greedy, toxic people who want to reach the top first, and become that specialist snowflake with all the squire gear, and 400 characters loaded with 5mil cheques. But the thing is, is that these people are breaking the rules, and all it would take is for Nexon to find each of their accounts and systematically ban them all. Aside from that, people often forget that some people actually have gotten hacked for being too greedy by non other than the people who make these mods.
It's all money money money to these people, they don't care who they have to lie to, or who they have to toss under the bus to cover their butts, they'll do it. They'll make discord channels and talk amongst themselves and plot against those who attempt to "deter" their little organized gold farming too.
It's sick, it's a toxic way to play a game, and I wish Nexon did something about it.
That is a huge factor in botting in most MMO's undoubtedly, however there are players who do this routinely as a shady get-rich easy scheme. Don't believe me? Look at the Mabinogi Alexina facebook group.
Meme pops up instantly to me.
Poor Robin (Us) lol.
Nexon, do something it's getting seriously annoying.