In Web3 Gaming, there is no issue that distorts the market as much as bots accounting for a large percentage of player metrics. Almost every game has reported impressive DAU/MAU figures, but upon deeper analysis, most of the activity comes from farming bots, automated scripts, or systems creating fake behavior.

Because the underlying data is incorrect, the entire in-game economy becomes inaccurate. The game cannot distinguish between real players and token miners.

Studios cannot adjust retention, design events, or optimize rewards.

In that context, YGG stepped into a role that Web3 infrastructure has never had: distinguishing real players from bots based on behavior, not on wallets or surface data.

Why is this a matter of survival? Because Web3 does not have user identities in the way Web2 does. Players are just a wallet.

Wallets do not carry any significance regarding behavior. A wallet can be a real player or a bot automated 24/7. As most games rely on wallets to calculate rewards, this discrepancy distorts the economic model.

Tokenomics built for 100,000 real players but serving 300,000 bots. The amount of tokens issued far exceeds real demand, causing game value to collapse.

This is the technical reason why many Play-to-Earn games collapse, not because of "poor tokenomics" but because of "poor underlying data".

A common misunderstanding is that "bots can be restricted by requiring gas fees or by on-chain anti-spam mechanisms."

This is only true at a surface level. Current Web3 bots do not just spam transactions; they simulate player behavior. They complete tasks, perform moves, farm playtime, and optimize rewards algorithmically.

If only looking on-chain, bots are no different from real players. If only looking at play hours, bots can even be more "active". Therefore, combating bots with fees or transaction limits does not solve the problem.

Real logic helps YGG distinguish real players from bots not through a single algorithm but through how they build a standard behavior profile of real players across many different games. When you have tens of thousands of real players from various regions and game genres, you have a baseline — a type of "behavioral fingerprint". From this baseline, any abnormal behavior stands out very clearly.

Bots can simulate some behaviors, but they cannot simulate the entire pattern of a real player.

Real players have rhythm variation.

Bots operate regularly on a cycle.

Real players react to in-game events over time.

Bots react according to scripts.

Real players exhibit behavior trying to overcome challenges or giving up.

Bots only optimize the reward curve.

These signals only appear when you have enough long-term data — which YGG possesses because they operate a real community.

In a project I once supported, YGG provided player distribution data for the early access phase. Upon preliminary analysis, the dev team thought their D7 retention was unusually high. After cross-referencing with YGG, they realized that 28% of it was "hidden" bots, operating on an optimization cycle for rewards. Without this differentiation layer, the studio would have gone in the wrong direction in mission and reward design. This shows that infrastructure like YGG not only distinguishes bots; it prevents games from going astray from the initial misleading data.

Another important impact is that YGG works with the "interaction graph" — a structure describing how players interact with each other. Bots lack a real social network. They engage in individual activities, do not chat, do not form teams, and do not create meta content. Real players do. From this graph, YGG can separate real user groups even when their play behavior resembles that of bots.

This is particularly important for PvP games, where bots farming ranks or rewards can completely ruin the player experience. When YGG introduces real players and excludes bots from the distribution ecosystem, games can build competitive modes, strategic metas, and fairer rewards. This is a factor that no one sees from the surface but has a direct impact on retention.

Another aspect that few people talk about is the impact on the token.

In Web3 games, bot behavior often leads to significant sell pressure because bots do not care about token value; they only care about harvesting. When YGG locks bots at the onboarding layer, tokenomics becomes closer to true value. Outflows are not inflated. Games can scale at a stable pace rather than being dumped by bot farms.

YGG's long-term opportunity lies in distinguishing real players from bots. In Web2, this is the job of fraud detection systems built over many years of data. In Web3, no entity has player behavior data spanning multiple games, genres, and regions like YGG. This is an advantage that cannot be replicated through capital or marketing. To distinguish bots, you need real players and their historical behavior. There are no shortcuts.

And as Web3 Gaming matures, the demand for "real players" becomes more important than rewards or content. An ecosystem cannot develop without a bot filtering layer right from the infrastructure level. YGG becomes that filtering layer — a middleware layer between the game and players, ensuring that the underlying data is real, behavior is real, and player lifecycles are real.

When you build a game on a platform with a source of real players, you can design a long-term economy, build deeper metas, and avoid collapse due to bots. When you build a game on a source of distorted players, everything left is just an illusion.

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