Thread 938363372

Do online games suffer from too many bots these days?

>>938363372 (OP)
>3/4 of twitter is bots
where the fuck is everyone going?

>>938363372 (OP)
It depends. Games with farming tend to be ruined by farming bots. Older MMOs that are just like playgrounds 20 years after release are enhanced by having the ability to drag bots with you. Games like DDO struck it just right by letting you pay to get AI companions.

More games need companions like DDO did.

>>938363373
Twitter still. The alternatives still don't rank on the top 500 trafficked websites which mean you are more likely to meet someone who shops using OfficeMax's website in 2025 than who has one of the alternatives. Bot traffic doesn't mean people left, it means bots increased.

>>938363373
most aren't going anywhere. that's just how many bots and paid agents there are now

>>938363373
Discord

>>938363377
*got rid of the non-bots

The only thing bots ever did right was siphon money from advertisers for trying to shove their shit in our faces constantly and subverting ad blockers.
Everything else is stupid.>>938363377

The uppercase i Internet is the perfect tool to manipulate people.
You're always being lied to.
Your thoughts and opinions aren't your own.
You've been neurolinguistically programmed.
It sounds ridiculous, but the government has been caught multiple times performing psyops online. The US government has spent millions of dollars over the years just to post HERE.
Treat every computer as though it's public, assume everyone is a federal agent or a federal bot, assume everything is untrue.

>>938363372 (OP)
I don't doubt that a big chunk of the internet is just bots but also I would love to see just how they're defining this "fake traffic".

>>938363381
Probably where it comes from, such as that one air force base in Florida where glowies post on 4chan 24/7

>>938363380
>the government has spent millions trying to tell me that my taste in anime is ass

>>938363383
Yeah, actually. Demoralization campaigns.

>>938363373
Never left, they are just being drowned out. Same as 4chan.

this is how they are going to force online IDs

>>938363386
I believe it. Full the Internet with bots on purpose, convince everyone it's a problem, then enforce the "solution" of erasing online privacy.

>>938363387
>online privacy.
I don't believe this was ever a thing, before bots and AIsloppa exponentially exploded it would be very easy to harvest data and spy on people because the chances of them being a bot was minimal

>>938363386
No they're just going to do it under the guise of "child safety." I don't even think anyone is falling for how 2 faced and transparent the intentions are there but it's still going to happen

>>938363389
>I don't even think anyone is falling for
You would be absolutely amazed by how ridiculously stupid the overwhelming majority of people are.

>>938363383
Duh, fattie. That's how you change culture. What do you think USAID was funding?

>>938363387
The solution is to go outside and touch grass, talk to actual people

>>938363389
it will trick boomers and they are the ones to vote more

>>938363390
>You would be absolutely amazed by how ridiculously stupid the overwhelming majority of people are.
you can just say jeets

>>938363392
99+% already do this every day. "touch grass" is a demoralization psyop.

reddit is also half bots

>>938363377
He did something right. We had a corporate Twitter for years and it was a fucking dump, random "people" would reply completely unrelated shit, there was a pattern of bots with LinkedIn profile pics posting links. It was a total waste of time, and it was so bad we opened a TikTok account and planned to move everything there. Musk bought Twitter and whatever he did actually worked and we could post product and outreach stuff essentially noise free.

>>938363396
Nigga, reddit is majority bots from its very conception. The creators didnt even try to hide it.

>>938363397
You post something and the first 100 responses are bots having fever dreams about the OP text.

>>938363395
>"touch grass" is a demoralization psyop.
That sounds incredibly indian

>>938363400
You glow.

>>938363381
>he's never viewed the catalog
you can easily go to /pol/ and observe bots in action. No real people make anti women, porn, fake article or le 12% are having sex threads (and many more)

>>938363401
touch grass is hardly a psyop. The people who you tell to touch grass are 24/7 online discord neckbeards who live on the internet and only know their little safespaces

>>938363372 (OP)
>Experts say about competing sites
shalom!

>>938363372 (OP)
>Do online games suffer from too many bots these days?

Generally for most online games... no.

Only for mmorpg where you can trade resource and shit... that's when you see bot miners. Like Warcraft or Runescape. Poor countries mine gold and other shit to resell to western players because it cheaper than working a real job over there.

Video Games?

>>938363372 (OP)
>cyberpunk predicted the death of internet thanks to corpos abusing the fuck out of AI.
>shit got so bad that the INternet 2 had to be invented a firewall made to not let the loose Ais to access it
I legit don't engage with other people on the internet anymore unless i'm in a small community. soon I'm gonna stop doing that too since zuckerberg wants to implement fake AI profiles across the board to generate data to sell. if one of them wants that, so does every one of silicon valley's cabal

>>938363407
Return to IRC

>>938363372 (OP)
>>938363377
>>938363379
>goyim now realizing why amazon bought twitch


>>938363373
>>938363374
This is every site now aside from tiny forums that've been run by the tiny group of autists/frens for decades. If they get a new user, they already assume its a bot unless someone invited them.

>>938363380
>>938363383
>>938363384
>>938363391

Yes, now consider why you liked said anime, or anything else, in the first place. The 'I'nternet in general exists for the USA's #1 export: "culture".

You'd be surprised to learn how many bots are already posting on 4chan 24/7, the captcha doesn't stop them whatsoever

mostly on /pol/ but ive spotted a few on here too

>>938363406
I dont get people like you. Why do you never post this shit in coomer or console war threads huh?

>>938363380
The internet is the government's dream. Most political discourse has moved online and so it is safely stored into small bubbles that are easily contained and importantly ignored by the government. Before you would have to gather in person. Now you can sit in some retards stream and think you have achieved something.

>>938363381
If you make a thread about a certain country in eastern europe with a yellow and blue flag you get brigaded by bots shilling their propaganda, this is website wide and outrageously blatant too.

>>938363372 (OP)
I fell for the bots tactic myself, I played for a week thinking I was just very good at the game until I decided to drop some bucks on the battle pass.
The moment I did I gained enough levels to be pushed out of the bots zone right into matchmaking against real players and I started losing every single match. The game wasn't any different than any other shit based matchmaking game after that

>>938363373
Nowhere, the internet is dead as fuck.
You maybe get like a week for a fairly notable website to exist before it gets completely shat up with sock puppet faggotry.
And this isn't even to say the ethical damage the google holocaust has done to people that make shit online.

>>938363372 (OP)
bring back region locking
it's too cheap and easy to run bot farms in 3rd world countries and still have access to 1st world services

>>938363399
PUSSY IN BIO
PERUSE MY PROFILE

>>938363410
Why do people just assume Captcha is to prevent bots? "Prove you're not a robot" doesn't mean they keep out bots, it just means you're proving you're not a bot. You can set up a mouse macro to click the box and it'll still work. You can use AI to click the pictures.
What Captcha does is track your mouse movements when you mouse over it. Real people can't make perfectly straight lines.
Captcha is just analytics.

>>938363413
You are right, and it's especially effective on the US population. I remember reddit around the election was 110% positive that Harris was going to win. Tons of propaganda, pre celebrations, and just general arrogance because they live in a echo chamber. Surprise surprise come election day... I'm sure more than a few abstained from voting because they were confident.

>>938363408
unironically it is gonna be the only option. IRC filters normalfags like no other and don't generate enough data to be harvested

I like how the cope by said same faggot retards every time is that it's some government plot and not that the internet is basically run by 4 completely incompetent retards who make everything completely fucking unusable.

>>938363422
That's one of the most Jersh things I've read in a while.

>>938363373
Boomers are on Facebook posting AI Jesus
Zoomers are on TikTok believing everything on there

>>938363372 (OP)
>>938363373
*flushing sounds*

>>938363373
Unironically discord. The only place you can actually talk to real people now are private invite only spaces

>>938363372 (OP)
>Faggot: "lol, this guy is lame"
>1.6 million likes, 1.4 million retweets, 95 comments (10 made by OP), 234 bookmarks

>>938363373
fedi if you're not retarded

>>938363372 (OP)
The problem isn't bots, but the fact that you can only tell them apart from players because the latter are worse -- performative, thin-skinned gaymers.
>>938363373
Most are stroking out due to mystery goo injections, the rest are signing out due to being sick and tired of incessant canned authenticity, turboslop propaganda and weird, competive obedience. I don't know a single person worth associating and spending time with, who is using any level of globohomian parasocial media and digital botfarm-daycares.

>>938363425
what happened on that dip?

>>938363427
>Believing ANY metrics on ANY major website when they've dozens of times over gotten in legal trouble for lying to advertising clients

>>938363415
>gatcha paypig
>is retarded
wow

>>938363430
Seriously?

>>938363434
Rare instance of a mod being decent and not nuking us

lol mods

Is /b/ even the right place for this shit?
>/b/ is for everything
I mean technically yeah but not really?

>>938363477
>us
Nice try, trannitor.

>Moved to /b/
Assblasted jannies

>>938363372 (OP)
I think twitter is the only one being honest or includes indians as bots since the function is identical.

>>938363634
I wouldn't even say twitter is remotely honest.
You could look at something like Undertale/Toby Fox and he ran something on a personal website and it only drew a cap of 200k "human" interactions but on his own site he hit at a floor double that.

>>938363751
what is the difference between a personal site and his own site?

>>938364019
Ther personal site is his own site.
I guess to clarify after over a month of it being up (on twitter) it had 200k interactions, however Day Of, he got 400k responses. Either way you slice that ham, it's rotten.

>>938363751
>and he ran something on a personal website and it only drew a cap of 200k "human" interactions but on his own site he hit at a floor double that.
The wording's kind of confusing me here

>>938364121
Alright for the third time over let me try to phrase it out as Coherently as I can
Toby Fox has his own website and a form on it.
He posts a link to that form on twitter
The form is open for 24 hours.
A month later, the form from his website has received 400k responses the day it was receiving submissions.
On twitter (a month later). The announcement has roughly 200k likes as its higher user engagement metric (Basically an I A human being saw this button since liking is way less visible than something direct like a retweet)
Now I don't know about you, or me, but I think most of us have a pretty general idea of Undertalefags.
They're definitely telling more than one nigga about this, so a month later and only 200k people saying "I saw this" is a really fucking strange metric.
And sure you might think
>Hmm well aren't those Underniggas trans leftists???
They aren't but for this example lets pretend this is the case, and we'll look over at Twitter Too (Bluesky)
And WOW how weird it only has ~32k likes.
Now, let me ask you something.
How the fuck do any of these metrics make remotely any sense.

>>938364435
Oh I get it now, like even on his own website - which SHOULD be much smaller than Twitter's - he's getting way more actual engagement
Yeah it's pretty fucked up, the numbers even in a vacuum are completely unreliable, but the more context you piece together the more you realize that even the "biggest" platforms are turning into ghost towns, to the point that running your own site might actually be way better even in the short term

>>938364555
What's really bizarre is that some how, some where, THAT much traffic made it's way to the website in that 24 hour period in spite of how the internet is these days.
Let me ask you, when specifically was the last time your friend actually sent you like, an email, or like a link to something that wasn't something you've seen on the home page of the like, 4 websites "people use online"?
It's rare.

>>938364840
>What's really bizarre is that some how, some where, THAT much traffic made it's way to the website in that 24 hour period in spite of how the internet is these days.
Honestly thanks to Discord I can believe it, you can just pop the link in a populated server and get a direct feed there

>>938364840
No

poor neighborhoods suffer from bots

Sometime I wonder what the bot/tard/poster breakdown is on 4chan.