What a load of bs, people who leave the client on for hours on end is in the minority. “LONG boot up time”? Kid, don’t even bring up long boot up time if you’ve never played GTA 5. Stay in denial, your gear and achievement in LA will soon be futile because there is an unnoticeable steady decline in population because those departure are instantly replaced with an influx of bots
FYI, anyone can leave a game running in the background and afk even if those game don’t have a “LONG boot up time” so your “MMO factor” argument is down the drain
So what you are suggesting is that players in DOTA, CSGO, GTA …etc, all the top steam chart games, are only active when NA players are online? Hundreds of thousands of EU players are willingly sabotaging their circadian cycle to only play these games when NA players are awake? They are willingly going unemployed so they can sleep during the day and play games in the night with NA players? Please reconsider your flawless theory, sir Or do you think LA is built different so that these circumstances apply to every other game EXCEPT LA?
its worldwide
although its not counting KR JP and RU regions obviously
but…
there are other games that are worldwide on steam and charts are “bumpy”, those sleep/play times dont align perfectly to give straight line withut bots in any game i checked
and are verry simillar in games with heavy bots issues
bot control is not going to be easy for a game made by SG which had no proper bot control/prevention in the first place.
The captcha was suppose to do something but because of player backlash they have scaled it down significantly to the point it’s probably useless…
There’s so many great ideas to target freshly made accounts moving zone to zone or before they even enter the game from trixion or just simply changing a dungeon gameplay so a boss is invulnerable until you do a certain pattern lifting levers that spawns at random locations with random colors etc…
but it’s up to SG who has the source code to do something.
But guess what? they don’t care.
the game has already stabilized it’s cost/profit and the profit is enough that they literally do not care because it would not change anything.
aka nothing big will happen anytime soon against bots.
I think they are aiming to reach the number of 900 thousand players 9 months ago. I think this will be possible with the arrival of brelsehaza. Long live the victory of the bots real players leaving the game and bots still stay in the game
Which means that there never will be a ‘huge’ peak/valley because the game is played 24h/day thanks to us different timezones, but I think that this is too hard to understand for average forum player.
we are so good