Message to whichever member of the Dev Team is responsible with dealing with the bot and gold seller reports…do you think there is any chance that your mommy would lift your being grounded, or perhaps let you off your homework tonight to do a little customer service.
By far the biggest complaint from the playerbase and the only 2 reasons I can think of the devs ignoring it (or being blatently incompetent) for so long is either mommy won’t let them on their computer, or secondly they are actively trying to get players to quit and perhaps move to Lost Ark (AGS being the publishing house for that imminent release and would profit from players moving there), where they will be able to extract more money from us gullible players through its pay to win build.
I mean, they already outlined in the dev video, all of February is dedicated to addressing bots/bugs/balance. Right now they are focusing on getting the January release from PTR to be as bug-free and smooth as possible. December was a largely bug free and incredibly smooth experience, and I think they’d like to maintain that feeling for the players.
Honestly it would have been better if they addressed bots/bugs/balance in January and held off the January release until later. On my server, there are 8-10 bots running right outside Windsward. I stopped reporting since nothing happens to them.
There is an easy fix that will remove 90%+ of the bots out there.
Right now, the location in New World is showed in the top right corner.
It’s a simple option you turn on in the option menu.
Most of the bots utilize that to navigate. Because that way, they just have to read to coordinates that are written on screen to position themselves… and not do more complicated and detectable things like read the game memory.
This is a feature that is useless for 99.99% of the players.
Knowing that… why hasn’t it been disabled months ago?
A simple fix as that that will remove 90% or more of the bots and they don’t do it? Give me a break.
They can do empty promises all they want… but at one point they need to start doing actions.
Yeah, they need to fix the bots. I really enjoy gathering as a nice, relaxing way to take a break from work, but when I see the same bots that were there weeks ago doing the same routes after I’ve reported them over and over… it’s just infuriating. Please do something AGS.
I am ranting, but it’s out of frustration at continual reporting and being totally ignored by the Devs. Content patches, which have historically been bug-ridden over addressing real player concerns such as the destruction of the market by bots & gold sellers is just poor management
Umm, no. The bot software reads character location directly from the client, not from that optional screen display, and you can’t not have the client know the location of the character or the game simply wouldn’t function.
We’re right there with ya! I feel like AGS got their $40 so they’re good. It’s almost time to move on to another game. And then the news will be, “Yeah New World was a total bomb, but their new $40 game is better! Buy it now it’s amaaaazing!”
I mean, that’s already happening to some extent is it not? You see people hyping up Lost Ark as if it’s also not going to be a tire fire. Granted, production is not handled by an in house amazon games studio, but it is being published by them.
Seeing the very poor response / non-response of devs to a number of critical issues being raised by the player base… how can anyone not be cynical at this point?
You’d also think that back when they were coming up with some initial game ideas and some dimwit said ‘let’s allow player guilds that own a town to charge taxes and also pocket that tax money personally’ someone would have looked at him and said sternly… YOU’RE FIRED!
Common sense and critical thinking aren’t the flavor of the century at this amateur hour studio.
What I’m saying is that you can’t remove that information from the client without rendering the game unplayable, and, evidently, AGS can’t prevent the data from being read by third-party programs.
I see where you’re going with this, but I think of many games that don’t show your coordinates and the bots know exactly what their map coordinates are. I think it’s just built in. If you inject yourself into the API, you are privy to a lot of behind the scenes info.
well, character creation is turned off, so i think there will be no more new bots until they reactivate it. idk why this game crashed for me sometimes with the anti-cheat screen after it, even i never used a bot or something like that. i think it should work on bots much better and especially with a perma ban.
and i dont get it, do these bots pay for each account 40$? i mean, thats fckin much money for placing 1 bot into the game, which gets banned quite soon…
in the other hand, 40h botting should make the money out of it, without the energy costs.
ags, i believe in you - make this game bot- free. just saw a bot running in brightwood as lvl 22… hours later, still farming there and hit lvl 23 xD and many of our server did report him. well, do your best ags!
Lost ark isnt published by AGS (Amazon Game Studio) but by Amazon Games, different entities…
AGS is part of Amazon Games but Amazon Games isnt a developping studio. Please do at least some research before talking about a subject you have no clue on.
