Add intermittent captcha to live search to combat rampant trade bots
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Title says it all. Don't stand idly by while trade bots who alter game client with third party programs run rampant and fuel RMT. You saw this in PoE 2 so you knew this would happen here too. A captcha is just one possible way to combat this. Do something at least, don't stand idly by and let it ruin the economy.
Last bumped on Nov 16, 2025, 5:50:28 PM
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this would annoy me, but it would also be a good thing.
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Necessary evil sort of thing. Better than having all these bots.
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Not onboard. Find a way that doesn't impact players minding their own business.
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Definitely worth it.
Signed. Remove breach walls and replace them with this. One obstacle for another. This one serves a purpose, breach walls don't. |
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" The impact on real players isn’t big at all. Just do the captcha to refresh your live search, if you even use live search to begin with. 99% of the players don’t so they will never even come across this. Demanding GGG do it in a way that has zero impact on any player at all will result in GGG never doing anything because they won’t prioritize advanced bot detection. Blizzard has tried for a good 20 years and still fail. This is an easy implementation that has the desired effect because these trade bots are, so far, rather rudimentary and won’t be able to handle a captcha. |
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I'm just going to repost what I said elsewhere:
" Making asynch trade inconvenient to combat snipers buying lowball items just makes the experience worse for everyone. Might as well suggest scrapping asynch trade in favor of in-person trade where you spam messages to 50 people trying to find someone who will actually sell you something. PoE players: Our game has a wide diversity of builds.
Also PoE players: The [league mechanic] doesn't need to be nerfed, you just need to play a [current meta] build! And the winds will cry / and many men will die / and all the waves will bow down / to the Loreley |
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" In general, adding a functions that makes the program worse for regular users, because other users are breaking TOS is a bad idea. I'm not demanding they do anything. " What are the other ways? Last edited by Belegur85#5784 on Nov 15, 2025, 10:37:02 AM
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No thank you. Bots will just break the captcha and regular players will get annoyed every so often.
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" The current bots will not, then they have to make an entirely new bot that also has AI to solve captcha. And even then it won’t be easy. If you can’t handle doing a captcha every 3rd hour or so then shame on you for being that lazy. I bet you don’t even use live search, you just like to complain. Last edited by Nomies#6100 on Nov 16, 2025, 6:11:49 AM
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