
Originally Posted by
RennStimpy
Well I just wondered because I recently chanced upon a site dedicated to ******s and I was suprised to see there were over 1,400 registered users to the site. The bots were freely available without registering to the site so it's difficult to imagine the numbers of visitors who visited, read the forums and downloaded the bots.
I would think it would be in the many thousands.
There seemed to be no fear of being caught out running bots and there was also discussion on the strategy of combining botting with multiple accounts.
It's the unfortunate nature of the beast:
If you're caught botting the punishment is getting banned... from an online game... which is free. For the average botter, that's not much incentive NOT to bot. Couple this with poor in-game policing and built in preventitive measures and it doesn't make for an environment that discourages the botters.
As FB said, it does happen. But it's so rare that it's like downloading music: for every person that's caught and punished, there are hundreds or thousands more who aren't.
Confusion is a state of mind... or is it?
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