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Most of the games which end up fighting tooth-and-nail trench warfare against bots are just boring games. I don't think expressing that opinion is arrogance, pe
by anthonyb 15y ago
Most of the games which end up fighting tooth-and-nail trench warfare against bots are just boring games. I don't think expressing that opinion is arrogance, per se.
Take games like minecraft or first person shooters like TF2, for example - there isn't a bot problem there for the most part (cheaters perhaps, but not bots), but farm and grind games like WoW or Farmville are rife with it. This is because WoW and Farmville are fundamentally pretty boring, but people want the shiny loot at the end.
- gyardley 15y ago'Boring' is subjective. There are millions upon millions of people who genuinely enjoy Farmville or WoW. I personally can't wait for Diablo III to come out, which will almost certainly be farm & grindy. There exists a subset of games with large, engaged audiences and a user experience that is weakened by the presence of bots. The appropriate thing to do in this situation is ban bots. Whether you're interested or not in that subset of games is irrelevant.
- anthonyb 15y agoBoring, but addictive. Without the brain-hook of watching your stats go up, would you still be that interested in playing Diablo? Just think of all of the other types of games that might be made instead of the umpteenth iteration of UO/Everquest/WoW/Diablo. UO was released 15 years ago, and we still have the same fundamental game.