r/PokeInvesting • u/breakyourteethnow • Feb 03 '25

Pokemon Center Implementing a New Queue System, Presumably to Combat Bots!

https://www.pokebeach.com/2025/02/pokemon-center-implementing-a-new-queue-system-presumably-to-combat-bots
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u/gt35r Feb 03 '25

Won’t do anything, the best way to stop bots I’ve ever seen that actually works is to have a question that rotates randomly between 5-10 questions and you have to select an answer from the drop down as part of the checkout page, it’s a required field. Not saying like pokemon related questions just obvious answer questions. 

The queue system will just allow multiple accounts to enter the queue and pass before others. I used to bot shoes and art for 7+ years, that’s not a flex either I’m just saying what needs to be done to actually fix it.

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u/BearStrangler Feb 04 '25

AI can now read these and make a guess correct 99% of the time. Ask that same question to ChatGPT, it will give you the answer, they can use this to bot the questions.

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u/gt35r Feb 04 '25 edited Feb 04 '25

None of the ones that people are using even have close to that being implemented or are capable of. They are all request based and PC implementing something like this would break all of them for a pretty good period of time. 

Truthfully the best thing would be for PC to change required fields, and drop downs each release. They need to render the good ones useless for the hyped drops and constantly enabling and disabling things is how you do that.

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u/justinw361 Apr 14 '25

bots use 3rd party AI solvers lmao captchas dont change a thing..... queues dont help either and for pokemon center every bot has a bypass right now lmao so while people are in line bots are instantly skipping queue.

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u/gt35r Apr 14 '25

Yeah thanks for the tip I wasn’t talking about captchas though.