mercredi 30 avril 2014

Elder Scrolls Online's Escalating Struggle Against Bots

The main story of Elder Scrolls Online may hinge on the threat of an invasion by the Daedric prince Molag Bal, but at least one invasion is well under way--and so far, it looks successful despite commendable efforts on the parts of both players and developers at ZeniMax Online. There's no other way to put it: Elder Scrolls Online has a bot problem.



Only a week ago the news concerning the automated pests chiefly focused on the dungeons, but now they've moved out into the world to cause problems for harvesters and general questers.


It's not hard to find them. You'll still encounter them most often in the delves and public dungeons, where they clump around boss spawn points and kill them repeatedly for both gold and XP. Swords swing, spells unleash, and boom--a foe that may have given three players a hard time dies one brief moment after respawning. Not too long ago ESO's lead developer Matt Firor said that bots and spammer complaints make up 85 percent of the current service tickets, which means the issue's partly preventing the repair of the numerous bugs that still plague the game. The ESO team is forced to spend resources fighting bots instead of squashing bugs.


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