Can’t fix it? Imagine every account linked to a cell number that is verified. 1 account per number. Further you can have a weekly SMS verification log-in code or for suspicious accounts even VPN accounts. There are numerous vendors who sell this tie in service and it’s relatively cheap and it could be world-wide or just accepting the countries you wish.
Another option could be like Google Authenticator on accounts with or similar app that also does some form of real identity verification.
Lastly out of my basic ideas how about full F2P accounts are unable to trade or use the market. Spend $5-10 lifts that restriction. After all a F2P Player who can’t even spend $10 is no loss to the game. But if must could have an identity verification for F2P players who are to cheap.
Can confirm, My ping has always been a static 209-213 ping everydays, Im from Australia and i dont use any vpnn to download, play or get access to the game (since many NA player still assuming that we need vpn to play)
after the change my ping sitting at 250 constantly now and having 209 ping is already hard enough to do raids with the rubber band
Me and some of my guildmates are around OCE area, recently after the Glaivier patch I think, amazon did some change with their server routing and we all had an increase of ping. Since then, in order to have better ping, we would use these ping reducers like Exitlag / Noping which improves our latency a lot (by 40-100ms in some cases). So yeah, that’s why we use vpns man, and even with vpn we’re playing with 150+ ping.
Yep. Its crazy how I could be 150-170 ping with it and now im 250 without. Already playing at a negative, while AGS implements a lazy solution to dealing with bots that will only cause real people to leave and bots to stay. Add a captcha, phone number or another source that is 100x more effective.
Im already having trouble with gunslinger at 209 since swapping stance into instant skill is impossible, now switch into instant skill is gonna be much worse (same goes to SH to casting skills after transforming)
Yeah exactly that’s the situation I’m in. Reroll to Warlord or quit the game. 150-180 was already a huge negative and typical no go for to people to play gunslinger. But now its like impossible. With the lower ping I only have to try swwitch weapons 1-3 times now its 6-10 times. It ruins the whole flow of gunslinger and makes it not viable to any extent.
I’m no white knight for AGS or smilegate, feel free to check my post history. And as I said I’m sympathetic to those legitimate players who are affected by this change. Pointing out it was a policy which already existed and wasn’t previously enforced isn’t white knighting, its stating facts.
I legitimately cannot understand how retarded a company can be to block something that benefits 10’s of thousands of legitimate players in an attempt to hinder the bots/gold sellers, who have a financial incentive to circumvent the block and most likely will LOL. It’s like cutting off the head to save the arm, which is in line with AGS policy of doing the most brain dead shit in regards to the western release of the game.
All this wasted money on high-level meetings to not fix the Bot problem when you can hire some 10-year-old to be an in-game GM and fix the issue much faster.
Yeah exactly, oh well. Playerbase has already dropped like 120k today. I hope to see the game die at this point. AGS is the definition of a clueless publisher. Should’ve learnt after playing new world that the company was completely useless.
