Introduction
Recently somebody accused my guild Forbidden Summoners of botting in brawls which made me decide to talk about botting today. To be transparent, I am the leader of Forbidden Summoners and I help manage New Bot Order and New Bot Order 2. In addition to that, I do bot my accounts and my friend's accounts (aruchard bots) in wild ranked and probably a few of my guildmates as well. I am proud to say that all brawls have been played manually except for one person. To my knowledge, the only person that did use battle helper for brawls in my guild was in New Bot Order 2 and their ign is spirozone. This was at least until battle helpers were against the TOS.
Bot Controversy
After the changes to TOS that planned to take action against bots in modern ranked and brawls, I think a lot of people were happy about it. I do have bad news though. We probably removed 90% of the bots but there's still about 10% probably running. These are unfortunately the bad actors with private services and I don't think Splinterlands has caught them yet.
You can see below a screenshot I got from Splinterlands discord from mumuwhale. This was actually also shown to me by a friend and this same message was in his DMs. Basically, the message is telling the details for botting and battle helper service. It's kind of disgusting to see this but it's something that would happen to any game that can earn money.
Source - Splinterlands Discord Mumuwhale
Thoughts On Recent Bot Wave Banned From Brawls
Recently, Splinterlands took action against a bunch of accounts botting in brawls. There were an insane amount of accounts that were doing this. Whether it was one person or a group of people or separate individual people, these accounts would auto join open guilds and then fill brawls and put in teams with ghost cards. They were basically farming brawls for free. I know a lot of accounts were doing this because I think before this action tier 1 had like over 500 guilds and I believe last brawl only had like 250ish guilds. That means almost half of tier 1 brawls were all bots.
I'm glad that they did this. These accounts were obviously malicious and bad actors just purely trying to extract as much as possible.
source - Splinterlands Discord
Concluding Thoughts
I don't think Splinterlands will ever be truly bot free. Unfortunately, I don't have more proof but I think we can give it a benefit of a doubt that there might still be bad actors out there breaking the TOS.
Thank You
Thank you for reading and supporting me. Do comment below your thoughts on botting.
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