RE: Staff Reductions & Restructuring Announcement
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That what you got for allowing bots for years, but Hey It was Better to grab the 20 bucks for the spellbook rather than see the sustainibility
Then dumb choices to keep harass small and new players like penality for starter cards and not leveled cards
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This has nothing to do with bots.... but it does have everything with the bear market
You telling me bots didnt drain and ruin the economy? New players not joining and remaining is not bear market issue, servers costs to keep up with bots farms Is not bear market problem
Bots are bad and should not be part of the game.
But the economy is not ruined, because if a bot invests in the game there is no difference between a bot and a normal player.
So if we had 100k real players that only rent cards and extract value how would that be different from bots? If we have 100k real players how would that affect server costs in difference with bots? It is really the same if a player is a bot or a real player for the economy with the condition that BOT invests in the game.
Bear market and new players experience is a problem that new players are not joining. With 0.015 USD per USD, there is no hype for playing in the Bronze league atm. And game visually does not look as good as Hearthstone so that could be the reason of new players joining....
You can't just scream bots bots bots, when there are other problems that should be addressed. And if you can't win aginst bot, then that is your problem. I found that is easier to play against bots because they are predictable.
Bots used to farm reward pool from ranked battles and cashout, a real Person Is interested in buying cards and improve collection to climb upper to earn more, While a bot playing H24 can sit in silver and earn the same
Again, bots are worst for a server, they play H24, 100k humans dont generate same traffic as 100k real persons
How? You need energy to play the game. Both BOT and the human player will get the same amount of energy per day. So you can play 24 games per day...unless you buy more energy which is profitable until certain point
a bot has no problem playing the whole day, a human is supposed to have a life, do you work? have family? its almost impossible to reach 0 energy with a real life, a bot has no real life
the problem is, as soon as you allow bots, the door is open for botfarms, unless you introduce kyc.
and the botfarms will always activate/deactivate their account quantity so far that there is no difference between rent and rewards.
so it doesn't matter how many honest players only bot their single account.
because the botfarms will always suck it away. if sps rises by 0.2 cent. botfarm xxx simply switches 100 acounts to it and sucks it away again.
so the prices are doomed to fall.
as long as bots without kyc are allowed.
so what is the better choice? ban all bots or introduce kyc?
if you ban bots you have the additional advantage that the gameplay is better for the players.
but without bot ban or without kyc it does not work in any case, for this you do not have to be a math pro!
don't get me wrong, I do mean that bots are bad and I actually enjoy the game more since BOTS and BHs are banned. But under the assumption that BOT has 5k USD worth of cards it is worth the same to the economy as a player that has 5k USD worth of cards. If you do a comparison like that then BOT == normal player.
BOTs are banned because they have an unfair advantage over a human player because they can access thousands of battles and based on that BOTs can play more optimized teams. There is no difference between a BOT and a human player in the economy if both invest in the cards, SPS, and so on...
And you can't ban all bots because you can always make a BOT that will go on a website and simulate clicking like a real user.
KYC...uhh well I have 5 accounts. If that means I could play on only one...then I am against it. Maybe if we could say that one user could own like 10 accounts or something like that I would be for that. But in that case, you can always register more accounts on your family members.....
But as I said already....everything is good so long accounts that play SPL invest in SPL assets, even if we are talking about renting.
as i said, as soon as you allow bots. the botfarms come too. and these few ``good'' bots can never compensate for what the botfarms suck, because they adjust the number of accounts at will so that there is no more profit. if 5 good bots pay in, botfarmxxx just adds 500 accounts to suck that away, that's just a fight you can't win, which the paying bots can never compensate. so as i said there are only 2 solutions, either you ban all bots or you introduce kyc. because otherwise you always have the botfarms with you. you have to decide for one solution of both even if both don't taste good.....
from a gameplay point of view the complete bot ban would be optimal. but if you don't want that then you at least have to introduce kyc to at least protect the ecosystem.
Well I see your point. From that perspective there isn't an immediate difference. However, bots exist solely to extract value whereas a human generally will also 'reinvest' some of their earnings. Bots are not playing because they enjoy the game.
Agreed. Continuing to allow bots was a bad move. Course it made more money for the devs at the expense of the players so I understand why they allowed it. I just hope they haven't shafted themselves too much as well in the process to the future detriment of the game.