Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
They've got no problem starting over because it's how they make money and the new account is just an operating expense.
The moment they get banned faster than they can get value out of their bots, operating expenses will make them stop.

The problem in MMOs is mainly that those botters are actualy still bringing in money. And it costs money to make them stop (both in personel costs and losing those subscriptions). This generaly means that you dont want them to stop entirely, you only want to disrupt them in such way you can maximize their expenses while having them disrupt less. Sure, depending on the dev they might go for the more extreme method, but note that this then always will cost money.

You can ofcourse have some AI systems for detection, which for some bot things can be effective and often is a good way to push their expenses up (which they then cannot as effectively counter, because of quicker bot detection). But in the end, you cant realy win this fight anyway. Botters will just make their bots more effective at dodging detection, often with just reduced productivity, but as long as they still make profit at low effort, they wont care.