Holly interview on MassivelyOP...

Because it would just be easier to install their own sniffer if they could do all that.

Whether you agree or disagree with them there is a very interesting thread in the TLP forums about some other comments Holly made https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/holly-quote.224452/page-22#post-3280557

The comment being discussed in that thread may not be wrong per se but the way she said it was not very PR friendly.

I dont want to get on my soap box about 3rd party programs and cheating in EQ...

I will just say this..

You are more likely to get Unicorn Milk before they remove 3rd party programs from EQ.

In all seriousness. folks that cheat the game can more than likely work around the one account per PC mess. I have no idea how but i am sure you can find information about how by just google'ing it.

Exactly. Most botting/scripting programs allow you to change the name of the executable. And the name of the GUI window.

Put it this way: Blizzard, a company with far, far more resources than DBG has been battling botters from just about day one with Warden, with mixed success.

Having said that, one account per machine might slow the botting to some degree (even with botters using VMware).

I'd play on a TLP server with that ruleset.

We REALLY need to get unicorn milk put ingame now.

Subcontract it out, no need to have more than one guy coordinating this and keeping it meshed up with the Launchpad and game.

I 2 box on 2 comps......3 when I've kidnapped my daughters laptop!

Risk vs. Reward. Currency based loot means people can repeat the easiest content over and over again to gain currency to buy the best stuff (even if they have to do the hard one once to unlock items). TDS did change it up a bit from CotF by making the cost of buying anything ridiculous and awarding more currency for the higher tier zones. But they also made it so expensive for blah items that the time/effort/boredom required to run the same 2-3 HAs over and over again just was not worth it for many people.

They need to improve itemization and spread out interesting items throughout the content. If the rewards are worth it, people will leave the easy content. Then there's the issue of everything above T1 being no drop. People will get what they want and revert to the easy content again. Itemization also needs to include a sprinkling of top tier droppable items (augs, clickies, power sources, etc) which people would want to farm. This would be stuff that would be valuable to both people in group and raid gear.

SO where does "Casuals don't deserve" come into that conversation...

In the interest of consolidating feedback I'm going to go ahead and close this as we have an existing thread else where that is a bit larger.

I know it does mean some of you may have to wander over to the TLP subforum, but it will be worthwhile to ensure your concerns are seen.