NC has kinda made a tactical error with this pig event too. As they have now shown us that they CAN do something pretty quick about the bots (at least in the more frequented areas) but for some reason choose not too on a general basis. And the main reason would seem to be financial. But as there is little communication and no apparent effects we are left to speculate on NC's motives in allowing the undesirables to continue to plague the servers.
I still don't buy into the conspiracy theories but this even has illustrated the #1 reason why I don't petition anymore: ineptitude. If NCSoft needs me and other players to tell them who the bots are and where they can be found...when this event
is concentrating TONS of bots in starter towns to the point where you can't fall over and not hit one then why should I bother?
I just want to TI to level on an alt and there they are. Of 20-something toons, 3 were legit players just checking things out or stumbling around killing piggies(not moving in 100% straight lines) and the rest were either mechanically going through the process or slapping pigs with their bare hands because whoever is running that group of bots hadn't noticed that the bow had run out of time.
Yep, that needs to be reported. It isn't painfully obvious as to what is taking place and I need to take time out of my day to report it just so that I can get even more frustrated when nothing happens.
I log on to play a game. If Blizzard asked folks to report bots in WoW the laughs would echo for days. Why?
A. In two years of playing WoW I saw three bots and all of them were in Azshara for only a little time before they disappeared.
B. The idea of doing Blizzard's job for them is...well, painful to even think about. What does it say about a company when they can't even control what happens in the virtual world that they created and maintain? It's the equivalent of God saying, "Well, yeah I mean I'm all powerful, I made the rules, I can go anywhere, I can see anything, and I can snuff the life out of someone with a thought...but if you could call me and tell me what's going on I'd appreciate it because I seem to be having a hard time find sand on this beach."
I created a toon on Bartz. How long did it take me to find bots? When I crossed the bridge from the spawn point I found them and started killing them.
It was hard.
There were EULA concerns.
It was a drawn our process.
I needed lots of training to do that.
For my next trick I plan on making a pot of coffee. It takes longer to do and there are more steps...