The MMORPG MIR4 (Steam) has many players, but also a serious bot problem. More than 100,000 accounts have already been punished. Bitey comments are already asking: Is anyone actually playing or are there just bots?
This is the special feature of MIR4: The MMORPG offers a way to “earn real money.” To do this, you need to mine a specific ore in the game, convert it into a cryptocurrency, and sell it for real money. This is literally “Crypto-Mining.”
This leads to many very active players in MIR4, making it one of the largest MMORPGs on Steam. Right now, it is actually the largest.
However, it seems that many players do not play themselves but let a bot do the monotonous work of mining the ore.
103,000 accounts imposed with restrictions
MIR4 itself says: In a statement on September 23, the developers say that 103,930 accounts have now been “imposed with restrictions” because they used “unauthorized programs.”
It is stated that they are pursuing a “zero tolerance” policy against the use of programs or any changes to the data that cause exploits.
How many players does that relate to? If the 103,000 “accounts” that have been punished were simultaneously in an MMORPG, it would instantly be “the largest MMORPG” of all time on Steam.
The record number of “concurrent players” in an MMORPG is 76,337. That was how many Bless Unleashed once had.
The 103,000 accounts are also 4 times more people than MIR4 currently has as concurrent active players (27,770).
Three weeks ago, MIR4 was even in second place among all MMOs.
“Hundreds of disgusting teleporting bots”
This is the discussion: Although MIR4 emphasizes how hard it is going against botters, many in the comments say it is still crawling with bots in the MMORPG. Apparently, the bots are mainly busy farming the ore that can be exchanged for money.
A user says:
“There are hundreds of disgusting, teleporting bots – and they are all mining.”
Zaddy, comment on Steam
If the developers just made one account and walked through the areas, they could easily see hundreds of bots teleporting wildly around the map.
A user even asks: “I didn’t even know anyone actually plays the game?”
Apparently, a game that is supposed to be played to make money leads to such problems.
Bots are also a serious problem in other MMORPGs:
WoW: One player finds the largest bot farm in the entire game
