![]() We like charts and figures because they show our vested interest into the game. ![]() The eve community thrives on interaction. A dev blog with numbers and an event to kill botters does not constitute communication. Where I can find fault in is CCP Games lack of communication about this subject. It might be a vocal minority but this vocal minority is vested in the game, and they care about the game. The outrage even caused it to reach regular gaming media websites MASSIVELYOP and PCGAMER.Īnd I cannot find fault in the community being outraged. Weekly posts on Reddit and the eve forums are constant reminders. You can find some information about that in this Reddit thread.īut even with this spectacular reaction to botting and dev blogs about numbers of bots banned we keep seeing bots. ![]() Then there are dozens like these outrage posts.Īnd if one uses Google, you will be able to find so many threads that I cannot possibly link them without spiraling this piece into an unreadable mess.ĬCP did respond spectacularly when they teleported known botters to high sec to be killed by the community before banning them. Then during summer the summer this post was made. There was the incident in January where this happened. And several extremely high profile topics sprung up all over the year. Almost weekly you find topics about botting in eve online. But r/eve (EVE online’s un-official subreddit) has been a hotspot for botting outrage. ![]() And that comes right after 2017 which was already scarred by outrage concerning bots. The year 2018 has not been kind on CCP Games when it comes to bots. Certain ways of ISK(in-game currency) making are considered extreme, and you will find a lot of bots doing these activities. Some of EVE online’s tasks are considered pretty mundane, and those players would love not to do them. It is a bannable offense and carries a severe stigma among active community members. What is botting and why has it been in the eve news and especially on r/eve?įor those that don’t know what botting is, I will provide a short explanation.īotting is the automation of a particular activity in EVE, so the player does not have to do it themselves. ![]()
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