You can’t satisfy both parties in a f2p game whether you like it or not, so pick one. Do you want an important mmo feature in a completely ruined mmo or can you live without it in a relatively healthy mmo?
Many of the restrictions such as high taxes, 48 hr delay, inability to trade silver directly etc, are clearly with the intentions to fight against bots. I didn’t need to read their explanations to see this. Yet many still claim they did this so people would buy their tokens - this is painfully ignorant and nonsense. Open your eyes, they don’t make rl money from taxing your sales. It doesn’t make them happy when you are sad that you can’t receive your money in less than 48 hours.
They only thing that didn’t quite make sense to me was the restrictions on transferring items/silver between characters on the same team, which they acknowledged and are looking into. They are also looking to reduce the delay on the market. What more do you want?
I mean keep in mind this is the creator of RO which failed because of bots, which led to private servers and other shenanigans. They are obviously trying to avoid the same mistake. They are doing all they can to minimize botting and private servers, and I say they are doing a pretty good job so far. “Are you crazyt?! but I still see bots!” True, but 99% of the people I see now are legitimate players, only very few people are bots. Yes there will be more bots after this game goes f2p, but it will be way worse if they lift the restrictions. I mean we already have a lot of complaints on bots and spammers. It’ll only get way worse if they allow trading. As a legitimate player, I do not feel I got punished at all. If I need something, I go to the market. If I want to sell something, I sell at the market with 10% tax just like other mmos. I just don’t see what the fuzz is about.