Adjust says 40% of mobile gamers have used bots to win.
Adjust says 40% of mobile gamers have used bots to win.
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Adjust: 40% of mobile gamers have paid for bots to help them win

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 3 min

More than 40% of mobile gamers have paid for bots to help them win in games, according to those who answered a survey from mobile measurement firm Adjust. Cheaters use bots — machines that perform repetitive tasks in an app or website — to automate gameplay, giving them an unfair advantage over real players.

Growth in mobile gaming was already growing, and it’s been exploding since the outbreak of coronavirus. Data from Adjust suggests that installs in March have more than doubled from the same time last year. And with apps encompassing 81% of the time spent on digital gaming around the globe already, it promises to be an important year of growth for mobile gaming.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.