"Statement" regarding the botting issue

@sieffreraginheri 

Exactly as you said, they already banned a lot of them.

There are just so many bots, banning like 100 will barely make a dent in the numbers.

People are running vm's with over 20 accounts being farmed at the same time, if one gets banned then they simply replace it with a newer account.

I'm sure automatic detection is already partly in place (though note that this usually needs extended testing to make sure normal players don't get detected) though due to the amount of bots it'll be one of two things.

Takes time before a detection system flags such behaviour and again with people making new accounts.

I don't think this would be a major priority for them though, as they don't really ruin competitive integrity, etc.

Depending on factors like region and the matchmaker, bots might not really be that common thus lowering the priority even further.

In this case I'd believe waiting would be the best option to do though.

With the release of S17, selling accounts to be "ranked ready" will become much harder as the minimum required level for ranked will be 50.

If they wait with doing a banwave with the season release in combination with better algorithms to detect these things then they'll get the most out of it.

Because putting in automated systems to go against these bots at this moment in time will probably result in them using more sophisticated software which might be harder to pick up on.

By waiting they'd practically waste the time of the ones farming these bots and it would probably hit their marketplace the most, albeit at the cost of some players having to encounter these bots in-game.

If I'm right with this strategy then I wouldn't think of it as bad.