I’ve reported an unknown user playing “Fisherman’s Lament” with a macro in their copy of my house in Mourningdale (Orofena) every day for several days. Its a problem because it can be seen/heard in my house and its annoying, but I see now there’s a much much bigger problem.
If Music aptitude boxes are being awarded and NWDB is accurate about their contents, this person is making STACKS of Brilliant Pearls and Gems potentially. This directly impacts people who are legit buying or earning their mats to make coin on Instruments.
Bots are a problem everywhere in the game and I’ve just come to accept them. Have some fun stealing their nodes and stuff. But the music ones are going to be the worst yet by far… can you seriously not detect when a user is doing this?
server has a registry of all players using macros, no one can perfectly replicate things over and over again. Simply not possible.
So you could manually bring up a server log and see their key strokes. The issue is accessibility for disabled gamers and the gray space that it inhibits.
How can you detect this is a disabled gamer or not etc etc.
So AGS had a stance of being against macros to now no one cares.
AGS doesn’t ban any illegal players’ real accounts, so it is worthless to mention these really; because AGS doesn’t care any of them major problems of the game for +8 months… Only legal normal players suffer in New World, and soon only illegal players will remain only in the game that active real population drops so hard when you exclude the macro users, cheaters, gold sellers and buyers, bots, alt account exploiters etc…
For a game, aim bot cheat happening for months - for musket and archer players to shoot you from +100 meters - any long range with head shot non-stop that even thy shoot you while behind of walls or any obstacles (just google and you can see these), or there are tons of bots, or trade post price exploiters etc which are possible then why do you think macro music is not possible?
So the gold sellers are selling gold to the non-existent “real players?”
Why is it that every MMO I’ve played in the last 25 years are only filled with bots? If all the real players just can’t take it and quit who do these bots serve? This argument, rage rant, or whatever you call it is rather old and played out.
Should AGS do something about music bots? I don’t know. It depends on the data. How many bots are out there and what is the cost in resources to combat them?
So, what is the solution? noone accepts the truths and developers don’t do anything too, like in Archeage. This mmorpg is not even one years old, and from +1 million players to 15k players as world wide… In Lost Ark, Amazon banned the bots after the damage is done and from +800k players it become under 200k players sth. So, it can be done for New World too if Amazon really wants to do. However, why thy still don’t do anything for +8 months?
What I understand from your comment is “You are happy with current state of New World” and you don’t want to see any fixes to make this game to go correct direction at all.
Archeage is done fully after 7 years, and every time we said “Lets give one more chance” and these chances lasted for 7 years and nothing has changed. All of the illegal Archeage players and guilds there came to New World to do same things (their character names, guild names are same and thy recruit ppl as they say around we ruled 7 years the end game content of servers with a single guild, join us and win the game). That is to say, who is happy really, except gold sellers, gold buyers, macro users, bots users, mega alt account users, exploiters, cheaters and territory owning guilds that hold the same territory for months without any wars via shell company guilds that thy are the main gold sellers in every server for +1 million, +2 million, +3 million etc weekly for fee and this number is increased after merges? we normal legal players cannot have any fun anymore and these illegal players mainly prevent it…
My giving chance to this game is until Throne and Liberty and then until Ashes of Creation as max. After that, you will see how is this game will be end like Archeage if AGS doesn’t fix anything with no real content. However, the damage is done so hard and there is no turning back anymore…
I’m not sure how you interpret what I said to “I’m happy with the game and don’t want any changes” but if that’s how you’ve translated my words so be it.
I want the developers to make wise choices when determining what to use their resources on. Combating music bots in my mind isn’t a necessity at the moment. Perhaps you can elaborate on why it should be the first priority for the Developers. I will admit that I might not understand the full gravity of the situation as I just started playing a week ago and am only level 40. Maybe I’m just not where the these bots are most prevalent. I hope AGS will make the best decision possible with the resources they have available and regrow the population of this game. If banning bots and not adding new content or focusing on QOL improvements will do that I’m all for it, I just think that is unlikely.
My point to my original post was to call out the faulty logic that everyone will quit except the illegal bot players if bots continue to exist. Bots have to have a purpose, those players likely want RMT customers. If it’s just to keep their company owning territories then so be it, that’s just a stupid arms race the try hards do in every PVP MMO.