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Originally Posted by Spirited
I know you know the reasoning for this, but for others who may not understand the problem: the cost comes in maintaining the bot. TQ Digital has become quite aggressive with how they prevent botting. Maintaining a bot means putting up a fight against TQ these days, and many aren't willing to put the time and money into doing so. It's a sort of starvation in the line of project work. You can still find private bots, but public bots are practically out of the question.
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It's also a factor of TQ having created their own bot that's built into the client. Having a 'fair' alternative that wont get you punished makes bot sales suffer greatly. When combined with the constant battle of constantly reverse engineering new patches and anti bot measures it makes little/no sense to bother with.
I'd think it's safe to say the days of bots with hundreds or thousands of paid subscribers are over. There's a reason you're seeing a lot of 'veteran' developers who were involved with paid bot projects switching their efforts to pservers. It creates less headaches for them and gives them more opportunities to monetize their work.
Those still doing private bots are stupid to release anything publicly for a few reasons.
#1: It gets their methods patched creating more work for themselves
#2: It creates competition for themselves. They could quite easily use their private bot to farm a ridiculous amount of accounts/items to sell for real life cash if they wanted to monetize their work.
