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Restricting New Players To Improve Server? That's a good Sign!

General Discussion
#24

The only real solutions to bots and gold sellers is either
a) make the game subscription based, without free-to-play so it’s not worth it for botters to create accounts since they’re getting banned before making enough money or
b) somehow make people stop giving money to RMT sites/stop buying silver/items or
c) make account creation restricted in a sense that everyone has only one account, which is bound to your social security number/ID card/whatever. In korea this system works pretty good. Or
d) make the game cost initial money (say, 30~50 bucks) with no steam-refunds but no subscription fees/tokens/etc but allow cashshop. This, like a), makes it undesirable for botters to pay 30~50 bucks for each bot just to get it banned after a short while, without being able to get the money refunded. Or
e) magic

The most rational and easiest solution would be b), however that doesn’t work because it would require everyone to stop giving money to RMTers/botters/silver farmers. And since there are always greedy bastards who pay real money for items/silver the RMTers will keep coming back.

I can’t really think of anything else, because even if they somehow manage to implement a 100% reliable anti-bot system, the botters will quickly program around that system and reprogram bot progams so they don’t get detected anymore.

#25
  • Actually, botters exist on Subscription-based MMOs like FFXIV by simply using stolen and fradulent Credit Cards. It doesn’t work.
  • Won’t happen when people excuse themselves for “wah I’m playing a grinder but I have a life and a wife and kids” for it. But yes, buyers should be punished along side the bots themselves, but IMC doesn’t want to reduce their potential buyers if they’re willing to spend money on RMT and all.
  • Requires IMC to have ALOT of information about people on a global scale. The reason it works in Korea is because it’s mandated to have some knowledge of where people are since Gaming is a very large thing
  • Founder’s Pack you say? I see bots running around with enough TP to buy dresses and such.
  • Legit

There really isn’t a way to counterract Gold Sellers & botting that is widespread. It is a problem many popular RPGs face that most have not solved at all. The solution here wouldn’t be something out there, it has to be done and unique to the game’s design to hinder bot advancement or the areas they could proceed. And what areas they can go to, can be stomped out as such.

That said, I actually sort of like these news. Hopefully if done in a competent manner that what is displayed, this can attract people back into it. But again, only time will tell. Most of the player base who want to play the game has tried it already, so they can log back in.

#26

I think this fix is more focused on the DDoS on the servers, rather than the bots. On one of the previous announcements, they did inform us about it.

#27

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#29

guise, i am planning to play this server(new player) but it seems that game has been temporarily restricted for new players like me. I just want to know if i buy the DLCI packs, will i be able to play the game? Thanks in advance.

#30

any of you guys know on what day they will put this player restriction out? i really want to play this game

#31

Remember when we thought IMC had a grand idea to revive the game, fix the issues and essentially “relaunch” as something great? Yeah… IMC is laughing at us right now.

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#32

LOL u bringing up this thread made me laugh at myself thinking that “Ooo IMC is gonna step it up!!! Brand new relaunch!! Better game!” And then now…

#33

lol y u necro XD…

Then again… yeah… i see no improvement… nor stabilization of the population of ToS player base…