Feedback and Suggestions (Path of Exile 1) - Add intermittent captcha to live search to combat rampant trade bots - Forum

" Belegur85#5784 wrote: " Nomies#6100 wrote: " Belegur85#5784 wrote: Not onboard. Find a way that doesn't impact players minding their own business. 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. 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. " A captcha is just one possible way to combat this. What are the other ways? The extreme minority who actually use live search are also the people affected the most by the bots. If you’re an avid live search user you absolutely don’t see this as something negative. The people it would bother will never see this anyway because they don’t use the function.	Posted by Nomies#6100 on Nov 16, 2025, 6:14:18 AM Quote this Post
What are the other ways? I don't want to jump through hoops because someone else is breaking TOS.	Posted by Belegur85#5784 on Nov 16, 2025, 11:54:37 AM Quote this Post
Bypassing captchas for bots is like a couple lines of code tbh. It would only annoy legit players while it would be ineffective against bots. But I do agree something has to be done against rmt/bots.	Posted by Ispita#4020 on Nov 16, 2025, 12:23:13 PM Quote this Post
A big fat NO against captchas ingame. You all wanted asynch trade then live with the bots! Why do you care about bots anyway? Stop being a cheapskate and pay the bloody fair price for an item. Heart of Purity Awarded 'Silverblade' to Talent Competition Winner 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDFO4E5OKSE I am one of the rare fair players/collectors. Last edited by Reinhart#6743 on Nov 16, 2025, 3:57:46 PM	Posted by Reinhart#6743 on Nov 16, 2025, 3:51:28 PM Quote this Post
" Reinhart#6743 wrote: A big fat NO against captchas ingame. It's not ingame. " Reinhart#6743 wrote: Why do you care about bots anyway? Stop being a cheapskate and pay the bloody fair price for an item. It is an easy way to make currency, duh.	Posted by Nomies#6100 on Nov 16, 2025, 5:50:28 PM Quote this Post