Is it smart/wise/worth playing online poker knowing that you are playing against bots?
View Poll Results: Is it smart/wise/worth playing online poker knowing that you are playing against bots?
Yes
27
17.53%
No
55
35.71%
Whatever dude
72
46.75%
06-08-2018
, 10:46 PM
06-09-2018
, 04:16 PM
06-09-2018
, 08:56 PM
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The thing is, the bots are the best customers.
I look at it like 2002-05 when I played lineage 2 and it was infested with bots, they basically are the lifeblood of the game.
It would be so easy to just ban people who are suspected of botting or have weird tendencies, im sure its very very easy for stars, but they dont actually want to ban en mass.
If lineage banned all the bots they would have a -40% drop in traffic, all the years i played there they never did mass bans on confirmed botters. Each botter paid $14.99 a month to play, so to lose 30-40% of all your subscribers could equal millions of dollars lost instantly.
The poker equivalent would be producing high rake, in fact the high rake "subscriber" for poker far outweights the 14.99 lineage 2 customer. Thousands of dollars per month can be raked per bot, making a ban en mass for Pokerstars to be possibly tens of millions lost in revenue.
I look at it like 2002-05 when I played lineage 2 and it was infested with bots, they basically are the lifeblood of the game.
It would be so easy to just ban people who are suspected of botting or have weird tendencies, im sure its very very easy for stars, but they dont actually want to ban en mass.
If lineage banned all the bots they would have a -40% drop in traffic, all the years i played there they never did mass bans on confirmed botters. Each botter paid $14.99 a month to play, so to lose 30-40% of all your subscribers could equal millions of dollars lost instantly.
The poker equivalent would be producing high rake, in fact the high rake "subscriber" for poker far outweights the 14.99 lineage 2 customer. Thousands of dollars per month can be raked per bot, making a ban en mass for Pokerstars to be possibly tens of millions lost in revenue.
06-15-2018
, 04:40 PM
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Not a derail...
I know one of the managers David Miller who worked at ACR got fired recently..
So it's possible ACR is in on this... which makes sense since they refuse to protect the integrity of their games.
I'm 99% sure they're going to tell us that it's all legit and/or they can't prove anything.
The players are at the mercy of these sites especially when you consider not much legal action can be taken in the US.
These sites are basically able to freeroll our deposits to bots knowing they will never get caught. Which means the only real recourse we have as players is to stop playing until they address this issue.
I know one of the managers David Miller who worked at ACR got fired recently..
So it's possible ACR is in on this... which makes sense since they refuse to protect the integrity of their games.
I'm 99% sure they're going to tell us that it's all legit and/or they can't prove anything.
The players are at the mercy of these sites especially when you consider not much legal action can be taken in the US.
These sites are basically able to freeroll our deposits to bots knowing they will never get caught. Which means the only real recourse we have as players is to stop playing until they address this issue.
