- Up to Feb 3 - Bots Situation UPDATE( after "removing" CAPTCHA)

[Boinkboink]

You are making a make-belief scenarios ’

Whales or spenders don’t base their pricing on how much gold bots make. They set it to the closest value they can reference to: Their dollar value, The average honing, The average pricing of engraving or whatever they are trying to chase.

Also, stop comparing Blue Crystals pricing with South Korea and NA/EU. Do you know why because we use a different CURRENCY? We use U.S. DOLLARS they use WON.

If you watch Zeals their pricing will be different because it’s CHEAPER to get to your target ilvl in South Korea compared to the U.S. Even that streamer named Stoopz moved to Korea so he can spend and produce "end-game’ content.

Why don’t you post it for me if your data really relates to the subject? It’s easy right?

[optimuspride9990]

@optimuspride9990

If you are not fine with “bots effect on blue cyrstal prices” , just make a thread and let people know. why not?

@Boinkboink

Also, stop comparing Blue Crystals pricing with South Korea and NA/EU

Are you good man? I didnt say it

@Boinkboink

It’s easy right?

No it not. Posting RMT website information here? NO.

I’m not an “economy expert”. Sorry for that.

[Boinkboink]

@optimuspride9990

If you are not fine with “bots effect on blue cyrstal prices” , just make a thread and let people know. why not?

I’m telling you why it’s not. Even the Data you posted clearly suggests it’s not.

@optimuspride9990

Are you good man? I didnt say it

You are watching a Korean player playing in South Korea. I can assume people do it and refer “inflation” “bots related” to the subject at hand.

@optimuspride9990

No it not. Posting RMT website information here? NO.

I’m not an “economy expert”. Sorry for that.

Wait you believe an RMT website that claims they have 10M gold… that they are selling said gold… and assuring players that they have the gold to sell? Readily available.

It will take a while for them to recover.

[optimuspride9990]

@Boinkboink

I can assume

[Boinkboink]

You are listening to a Twitch streamer repeat the same “inflation” talk which he clearly never fully comprehends how REAL INFLATION works.

I can assume… that he is basing it on the price of Blue Crystals on his server. “Forgot” conveniently that we are using U.S. Dollars, not Korean Won. That is just a safe assumption.

Also unlike your data sets it makes sense.

[optimuspride9990]

Thanks for pumping the thread. I hope they can still see this as a reminder that don’t let bots fully come back.

[CMaccheri]

They are already back, close to 200k “players” and growing. Gotta wait for the next ban wave in like 6 weeks or so.

[optimuspride9990]

After update and maintainance: Around 60k

1 Days after update: 13:00 20 19 Jan. Back to 100k.

[Boinkboink]

Let me guess the “inflation” caused by bots is up too right?

I’m sure it is Thursday Night somewhere.

But looking at Hypnos’s Eyes I barely see them freely running around. Maybe they are inputting them one by one now which takes a lot of time.

Primarily talking about NA-W here. Looks like the Captcha is slowing them down. I don’t know about other regions.

[AltTab]

Captcha seems to have had an impact. Lost ark is out of Top 5 games (in terms of population) in steam charts for the first time in a year. Once Captcha is implemented in NAE and EUC (there are hardly any bots in EUW), I predict 20k overall population with LA going out of Top 10.

[Axely]

doing good, a lot of real player mokoko at prideholme , havent seens bots, but multiboxer still around, maybe its time for AGS put sniper scope on those multiboxer

[Boinkboink]

I think they didn’t implement the captcha yet in NA-E. Probably the bots are operating in NA-E?

[Axely]

true, also its chinese new year, so lets wait until chinese new year ends, and see how it goes

[Sathona]

Steam for FFXIV only tracks the Steam players, not the PS/Client players, why are we even comparing this.

Destiny 2’s majority of players is also on PS4/5 not PC xDD

[Sathona]

The captcha is only enabled on NAW so AGS can test its effectiveness and the reactions of legit players.

Also i heard NAW had the most bots so i guess makes sense theyd be the guinea pigs.

[Boinkboink]

@Sathona

Also i heard NAW had the most bots so i guess makes sense theyd be the guinea pigs.

I notice we have 4 cycling of “Busy” channels in NA-W. I don’t know about about other regions NA-E.

I assume the bots operate cycling 4 servers at a time.

I don’t know how you equate that to most bots, if most mean the majority of the servers that are online with a lot of bots sure.

[Luigii]

Not they just carry own bots;p

[kosajk83]

@Axely

doing good, a lot of real player mokoko at prideholme , havent seens bots, but multiboxer still around, maybe its time for AGS put sniper scope on those multiboxer

One region have captcha atm
real numbers will be significantly lower
Assuming bots will not overcome it fast enogh

[Fluffernutter]

@Sathona

Also i heard NAW had the most bots so i guess makes sense theyd be the guinea pigs.

I wonder why

[Boinkboink]

That is close proximity to Asia. They can still operate in other regions…

Unless you are talking about why our Blue Crystals are higher than other regions…

The simple solution here is lots of players in South America and Asian countries that can’t afford the $ rate and choose to buy Blue Crystals creating a high demand just the same as South America?

I mean we don’t even have bots anymore and the prices of BC are still going up…