So im on NAE and we didnt receive the caption but amazingly i haven’t seen a single bot in any of the major hubs from Luttera to Punika since witcher update. Even checked prideholme and it was a ghost town. Its amazing to go to the hubs and see all real players everywhere and its way less laggy now as well. These are just my observations so whatever they are doing here without the captcha is showing remarkable results.
Well, CAPTCHA IS only applied in the West Region so you might seen a spike of bots in other regions.
So? Did it failed?
What server? Im in NAE and bots are rampant in Arthetine.
Us folks over in NA-E trust and support our NA-W brothers and sisters in this beta.
Lets us know how it goes 
I assume it’s so that if it somehow exploded they’d only have one region to fix
Also to have something to compare the data against
Danube. Which was literally 100 bots per 1 player but im guessing we have less bots in general because of lower player base numbers. But for the past year ive seen maybe 1 person per hub and all the rest were bots. Up to 9 channels of bots. But now everything is 1 channel and players are everywhere. Also im guessing the more players on a server means more RMTers which means more bots in the popular servers
I literally work in this field [payment processing] with close ties to visa, mc etc, and have an economics degree and can say with 100% certainty.
Youre wrong.
Steam is NOT eating chargebacks like you claim they are. They will 100% take that money from the game responsible.
Someone adds $1000 to steam, then buys LOA RC, charges back the $1000, you better believe theyre passing along that cost to AGS.
it’s doing its job but we do get the weird cases wherein it says the one we picked is wrong even though the one we’ve selected is obviously the correct one. There’s one in reddit where someone clicked on the upside-down orca and still got disconnected
Thats what i thought also,really hope it will do well and get rid of those bots for good.
It’s just a matter of time whether bot devs would bother making a captcha solver on their end. But if SG devs constantly update the images used, it would greatly help even if bots do get a solver. I’m all for captcha as long as we finally get the changes reverted to what the game is supposed to have (gold from rapports/quests, no 3-day wait, no AH cooldown, no AH limit, etc.). We could also finally get AH api
I think that it will take a lot longer than players currently think for those changes to be reverted, as this CAPTCHA system is honestly only in its testing phase in NAW. Even when it is released region-wide, the CAPTCHA system will be in its evaluation phase, to see its effectiveness region-wide.
So reverts won’t happen unless they can reduce a sufficient amount of bots and the 3-day wait probably won’t be reverted until they can ensure that credit card fraud is unlikely.
And a CAPTCHA solver could be created on the bot devs’ end. However, if AGS uses a mixture of texts and images on their CAPTCHA, it will be a lot more work for the bot devs to develop countermeasures, unless they are investing in high-end PCs as such.
That’s just my guess though.
can we get a trusted status on our accounts to remove this 3 day restrictions. Like you are restricted until you have x number of non fraudulent transactions? Especially with how littlie communication we get about when we will get certain things so you have to pre buy crystals if you want to use them at all.
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and the experience of those who dont fall for fraud scams worse.
Karta looks like this again too. I ran into 0 bots yesterday.
Can you please just eliminate the bots at the gold vendors and event Santa? That’s like the bare minimum ask.
There’s no in-game mod buddy.
You can try to report them, but they won’t be banned nayway so live with it;
hide name from others player
hide title / hide guild
so they looks like random npc
They already told us why they did this change but i really dont remember it correctly.
So correct me if im wrong-
Basically people were getting their CC/account robbed and they were buying everything they can from the cash shop - Selling it on the AH and transfer the gold to another account, then they asked for a chargeback or something like that.
So they added the 3 days to avoid people selling the items in the AH or something
I remember they made a post ill see if i can find it, if im wrong ill edit this post when i find the real reason.
Edit:
Found the post:
Just a thought: I’ve played a couple of MMO’s and all of them had common PvP/PK system. Everyone outside main towns could PK other players or PvP if they retaliate. Why is LOA different on this ? This is a traditional and core system for MMO’s and it could erradicate (or significantly reduce bots from the game). Was this even a thread on this forum ? I know this isnt an open world game like many others MMO’s but I don’t see that could be the reason for this not being doable.
We should have the same special currency you get from spending in the shop like on the KR version.
This would give an incentive for ppl to buy from the shop instead of using 3rd party sites…
As well as us getting the cool stuff they have in KR q_q
all of them 1375…i wonder why