Does steam tied game prevent or greatly reduced botting in MMO?
A few pointsâŚ
- The majority of Steam games can be run outside of Steam. Even if theyâre not supposed to be, the kind of person who would bot on a server would have the knowledge and ethics to fool the client into letting them run it outside of Steam.
- I find it unlikely that Tree of Saviorâs full release will require a Steam account to connect. More likely it will allow players to connect Steam accounts and generate ingame accounts linked to them, as many other modern online games support. Thereâs a chance that for some time the game will be unavailable outside of Steam but I donât think it will stay that way.
- Iâve seen all of the complaints about Steam and they are exactly the same as the complaints about Paypal, Google, and any other sufficiently large institution. In my experience, people who get in trouble with Paypal, Steam, etc. always did something wrong and are reaping the consequences. For instance, itâs historically a common practice to pay artists who draw commissions by sending the money as a gift through Paypal. That is fraud and a breach of contract; Paypal will shut down both accounts for doing so, and will be entirely in the right, other than that Paypal will most likely not tell you why your account has been suspended.
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Good question. But you might get banned, on both, the game and steam.
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=5406-WFZC-5519
Even people âselling/givingâ keys could be banned from steam.
Iâm more concern with botting will ruin the game like many other MMORPG. If steam or any other extreme method can reduced botting, I wonât mind the hassle to play the game.
I think it will somehow. Because generally speaking steam account owners tend to have more games(i have few games).
How can i put it to youâŚ
Steam sell tons of other games, and its just good to have ToS there too, so i can have all my game sin just one place.
But if i bot on âToSâ i could be banned from steam, and that risky, because i will lose all my games there.
That doesnât really solve anything, you can make as many steam accounts as you want and Steam/Valve (For VAC protected games) wonât ban your IP even if you cheat in one of their games.
Itâs basically the same thing as anywhere else, except from the fact of your main account having the most games and so on.
Yeah Iâm just hoping 
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=5406-WFZC-5519
Hijacking or Sharing Accounts
Do not use Steam accounts which you did not create.
This means I better not share my account with my friend just to get her to try ToS?
Hopefully it will be only on Steam. ToS is going to be heavily botted like Ragnarok otherwise.