Why did IOI not use bots to play the game?
Why do they use actual workforce to play the game in Ready Player One?
If technology would have advanced so much, why could they not use simple bots to spam the game, trying out all possible combinations and places?
What sense does it make for actual humans to play by IOI company to win the egg?
Best Answer
Probably because bots would be banned.
Even if they could use bots (which I doubt), the bots would be definitely banned. In all online games, from pokemon go to lineage, bots are identified and eventually deleted. So in this more advanced game, I suppose that such identification would be much easier.
So they replaced these bots with 'human bots'.
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Answer 2
It's not mentioned in the book or the film.
There are some actions that avatars can make to save some time - in the book, Wade had to run to the first challenge and set his avatar on auto-run while he researched his approach in another window.
The implication is that the OASIS doesn't allow bots other than those created in the game itself. There's some magical items that can enhance powers/do awesome stuff, but players achieve things by themselves.
It's much like playing games on a console - you can't construct a bot to win your CoD matches for you - the platform simply doesn't allow it.
Answer 3
Because "bots" don't have intuition or advanced reasoning skills.
The Sixers are real people contracted to work for the IOI to win the overall contest and find the keys.
A "bot" might play one single game to destruction and still not find the key as we see in the final example where the object is NOT to win or reach the end but rather to wander around the maze and find an invisble dot.
Well, there is a secret in Adventure you don't find it by winning. You find it by wandering around in a dark room. Until you get to the invisible dot.
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