Hello everyone,
AFAIK in Korean, every player need to use their real IDs to register for accounts and verify through phone. Therefore, no bots/rmt issue. So why IMC doesn’t do that for international server? Is it impossible to verify players’ IDs in anyway?
p/s: just a thought that came to my mind, feel free to comment but no hates plz 
Because you know, adding something like that in south korea is easier because it’s only one country.
But when you consider the international server where almost every country that can join has different types of IDs, formats, politics, and everything, that becomes impossible.
I mean
Text Verification works too. Would it be clean? Probably not, it’d need some work.
It may help, if only a little though, and it wouldn’t be a huge inconvenience to everyone (I would hope :x )
Text verification wouldn’t help at all.
First, you need to consider iToS accounts are directly associated with steam accounts. They’d need to either disassociate the accounts with steam, or have steam implement this sort of verification for them (which is very unlikely).
Then, even if they had their own independent account database, text verification can be broken through with certain ease:
Have someone type in code verifications to make bot accounts. It’s not uncommon for those bot companies to hire people to type in captchas 24/7. Why not do the same for text verifications?
Do it in a smarter (but also more complicated) way that includes having a bot that auto-verify text messages for you. No need for human inputs.
True
:s ID verification would work better, but as you said, be a lot more of a hassle.
Or like, an active GM team running around.
But yeah.
Just make the game pay to play 9 dollars a month wont get rid of all bots buy will certinly have less chat spammers forsure… Everymonth you get 99 to for your sub also
They make bot ban waves every now and then. It’s not like they’re completely oblivious to the problem.
It’s just that bot problems can’t be solved in a snap of fingers like people think. You are not just fighting bots, you are fighting smart people that program bots as well.
To make an automated system that prevents bots from playing the game they would need to dedicate a lot (and I really mean a lot) of efforts and man power to get it done. And even then, there’s a chance people with malicious intentions would find a way around the system and exploit it, making all that work building the system for nothing.
It’s easier for devs to try to control bots (but not fully prevent them) with simple-to-implement systems like the report system and dedicate those efforts into something else.
How about this crazy (maybe) idea : online video chat interview for each person who want to make and account and save 1 photo of them then create a database with facial recognition to prevent the same one create multiple accounts for illegal purposes…loool
But see, you’re not really tackling the problem on it’s essence. You’re just increasing the complexity to solve those ‘captchas’ to make accounts.
Not just a facial recognition verifier creates a lot of weird issues: what if two different people look alike? what if twin brothers want to make two accounts? what if camera quality isn’t good enough? What if the person who wants to play doesn’t have a camera? What if the algorithm fails? (cause those facial recognition algorithms don’t have 100% precision)
But it also doesn’t completely solve the problem: RMT companies can still hire different people, pay maybe 20 bucks, and have them just do the interview and create a new account. Or trick your computer camera with a recorded video / face swap of someone else (that’s pretty easy to do).