Artificial Neural Network for bot detection system in MMOGs

Cheating is one of the biggest and constant problems in MMOGs. Games with high frequency of cheating will surely lose its appeal to genuine players who want to play the game. This is the reason why game provider these days put cheating prevention as one of the top priorities. Bot is just one way of cheating, but very efficient one. There are various methods to prevent cheating using bot. In this paper, we examine the potential of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to detect and recognize bot from human players. We start with the assumption that one bot always acts in the similar pattern in gameplay. Meanwhile, it is much more rarer to see 2 players with similar gameplay pattern. The result of our experiment supports our initial hypothesis with the potential for future research in order to get better results.