Blizzard employee once told me anti-botting in WoW was extremely challenging due to the number of real people that acted identically to bots.
Every assumption was invalidated:
- unbelievable # of consecutive hours played
- consistently repetitive patterns of movement and clicks
- farming patterns that aren’t considered fun (“why would anyone do that”)
- solo, no external engagement
- goes on for months
The problem with botting is many humans ARE bots
Steve Jobs explains why most people never get what they want
"I've never found anybody that didn't want to help me if I asked them for help."
"most people don't get those experiences because they never ask."
"I called up Bill Hewlett when I was 12 years old. his number was still in the phone book and he answered the phone himself."
"I said, hi, I'm Steve Jobs, I'm 12 years old, and I want to build a frequency counter, and I was wondering if you had any spare parts I could have."
"he laughed and he gave me the spare parts to build this frequency counter."
"he got me a job that summer at Hewlett Packard putting nuts and bolts together on frequency counters, and I was in heaven."
"I've never found anyone who said no or hung up the phone when I called. I just asked."
"most people never pick up the phone and call. most people never ask."
"that's what separates sometimes the people that do things from the people that just dream about them."
"you've got to act, and you've got to be willing to fail."
"if you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far."