I understand that there are also a lot of role players out there, but there is something inherently wrong with them to just want to sit at a PC and pretend to be be anything.

Competition, skill at a class, those I understand. Taking enjoyment in the grind I do not.

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As I understand it Glider does indeed use some kind of custom-rootkit to avoid detection. Botters, though fanatically paranoid when it comes to Blizzard, are remarkably trusting when it comes to MDY.
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I mean, that’s been done for a long time now.

This does not set a “dangerous precedent”, like so many people are throwing around. It is a specifically worded ruling for the case against MDY and most of it stems from MDY’s inability to provide a plausible defense.

To answer your question a bit i would say give the responsibility to players that have a reputation to lose such as representatives from high end raiding guilds, in wow’s case.

Wow i would heavily guess will never have any form of local government introduced into it. But future games that do could in theory cut out a lot of time with law suits to botting problems that players come across very easily but Devs find hard to solve.

How will this work with an MMO? How will you screen the applicants? Allow any account with no recorded violations? Well new accounts are cheap and easy to create. Allow anyone who’s maximum level? Same problem persists. And who’s to say that the violators themselves will not take over the police activities?

Perhaps allow the kind of kick-voting that takes place in some Unreal Tournament mods? But that’s mob rule and all that will do is allow people to bully someone they don’t like, not necessarily someone who is violating the rules.

Also please note that most of the gold-selling and power-leveling services exist because people are willing to pay for them. Would you trust the same hoi polloi who created these problems to put an end to them? I don’t think so.

Personally I think that the current model works fine. There is already a paid, on-staff police – the GMs. There are not too many of them, but I have much higher trust in these employees than in Axecutioner-the-retarded-hunter. And where the GMs fail, the company backs them up with real life actions such as lawsuits.

Assuming perfection is unattainable, this is probably as good as it gets.

You have designed a virtual world for people to inhabit, why do you then not allow them to police it? Third parties have found ways of exploiting the game dynamics but you have shackled the players by not letting them control blatant gold selling etc.

Its the responsibility of the developer to input protection for its players not the laws?

Its impossible to expect game devs to police everything, they cannot be everywhere at every-time, but players can, so give them the powers to police this sort of thing.

Now get out of my court!

If by ’story’ you mean something that everyone’s known for at least the last 3 years and hasn’t hindered the game’s popularity in the slightest. In any case, people being prepared to pay money to cheat at games is not a phenomenon that originated with WoW.