Captcha system. f2pchads win once again

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JUNE 30 PATCH NOTES

  • Added a CAPTCHA system as an ongoing bot prevention measure. Sometimes when entering a new zone, you may be asked to submit a text CAPTCHA response within several minutes.

  • Added preventions to limit gold-seller activity. New store purchases will now have a 3 day waiting period before they can be traded or transferred out of the buyer’s account via mailing, trading, gifting, or selling on the Auction House.

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Why is anti-bot measure a “f2pchad” win?
I hope its not gonna be annoying, but its for everyone…

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The captcha will likely only give us a few days of reprieve. After they update scripts, captcha will only serve as an annoyance for legitimate players.

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bots are gold selling, ruining the economy and crystal prices and items on the auction house.

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Are you saying the one thing that is meant to figure out if you’re a human doesn’t work?

How can simple bot scripts solve CAPTCHA ?

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Yes, but i dont understand the Title.
Its a Win for everyone, not only f2pchads.

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People solve hundreds of captchas just to add them to bot scripts. It’s very common.

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I heard of AI that can beat them, but not bot scripts. The only other option is to have 100’s or 1000’s of low paid workers to solve them.

In any case, it will slow bot-farms down and make 3rd party gold more expensive, which in turn makes the in-game store more appealing for spenders.

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Runescape tried this 20 years ago, with very poor results. Nexon tried this in their games, with very poor results. And those poor results last a very short amount of time, and bots bypass the CAPTCHA while legitimate players get punished by clunky and annoying CAPTCHAs that are added into a live, online game. Unbelievably bad decision. Stop this crap from being added. I’m glad AGS/SG are trying to combat bots, but this not a good solution. Results will last a day or two, then legitimate players get punished while bots find bypasses using AI that the people who are programming the bots are already familiar with.

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that’s a great measure againt ppl script botting in infinite chaos.

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Is captcha for real?
It reads first like an aprils fools, if i get captcha i am gone, motivation already hurt currently, hilarious captcha…

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they want to do something cheap that doesn’t cost money I guess. Trying is better than nothing for now.

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Yup, far too annoying to play now.

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Exactly. That’s partly why Jagex removed random events in 2012.

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XD
Again, i dont know what my words do make someone believe im against it something.
Had same Captcha , years and years ago on a Private Server for some Game and it was rare enough not to be annoying.

But still, its a Win for Everyone. Dont get f2pchad stuff.

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Everyone knows RMTers dont know how to type lmao

/s

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Its a good move in the front against bots

However AGS/SG has to take note to update the captcha library often.

CN studios do employ Python scripts + OCR API to manually scrape/solve an image library. With the level of automation they can solve "all " answers in the library eventually. Although I have yet too see the captcha in-game, this is just a precaution not to be complacent

Plenty of access to captcha killers on github/chinese-intranet as well
solved

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This sounds like this is coming from someone who is script farming. You will be missed.

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Exactly this. Coincidentally, I’m currently taking a course on AI solutions development and writing a python script for image classification and ocr were the first basic module.

These stuff are literally the “Hello World” of AI courses.

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I am just curious to see what kind of captcha they employ on the update.
Not trying to be a wet blanket, but I want AGS/SG to not be complacent
The image/numbers/characters ones are student/github-hobbyist tier by now