There is a simple solution to the issue. Get rid of the crystal > gold transaction in the Lost ark store. Change the gold transaction to straight $$$ = Gold. And make it cheaper than the bots are selling it. Not only do you alleviate the bots reasoning to be here in the first place. They also make the money instead. People will find ways to use real money to get what they want regardless. Just hand it to them so we can move on. I personally dont like buying gold. Because i miss the old days of taking 6 months to get a character to max lvl and really enjoying all the game has to offer. But, to each their own.
U get 8 million gold for about 20 CAD on the g2g website for Azena.
They would never give u those rates.
That quote isn’t really a lie so much as it was answering something different to what was being asked.
That is so far from false. I just went to look. $24 for 10k.
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How could they honestly believe people would not want roster bound mats from the get go? How? Serously.
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Probably because roster-bound materials were never a thing in other regions.
If SGR never thought it was an issue anywhere else, why would they change it here?
a game being F2p doesn’t excuse weird decision-making and lack of transparency on important issues.
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sure they are detectable get their behavier searched and autoban everyone doing it and any accoutns connected to a bot
Character bound materials dont make any sense since you are always left with pile of materials that become useless and they are worth 1 silver per piece, make them roster bound of give us more silver when we sell them
I dont think you are actually defending bots, but lets not pretend bots helped anyone except false wannabe whales and cheaters. They caused BC prices to skyrocket, which really hurt FTP players. people RMT are circumventing the in game economy. The reason gold was expensive is because thats what players were valuing their gold at during that time. When someone goes around the in game shop, they are instead buying printed gold, and often they will then use that printed gold to buy BC, instead of doing it the legitimate way.
I was never angry.
rant/
Stop making it cost so much gold to hone tier 3 with such stupid failure rates. Make stones roster bound, not character bound (in all cases). People who like the grind aren’t going to spend money, they will take their time. The people who don’t like the grind will just walk away instead of buying more crystals to get more gold because we see through the obfuscation of what a rip off it is. Just my opinions of course.
Bots (gold selling ones) can get solved by taking away the reason they exist. Plus, add 2FA requirements. You can even implement one on your own using the AWS services you actually provide.
anyway … /rant
If bots aren’t going anywhere anyway then stop nerfing players’ income/QoL because of them.
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Dude? 8 million gold for 20 Canadian bucks?
This is what this site says. Not sure if it’s legit or not though
Nothing like simulating players speed hacking and warping through walls… 
That’s 10k gold. They have 8m in stock, apparently.
Great post. To put it simply i agree with many of the sentiments here. Make all mats roster bound. Lower the gold and silver drain on honing. People wouldn’t need to buy the gold then. That or just make the gold easier to get. And i agree on the crystals. That system is dated and scummy. If i want to whale for gold with my visa card let me just buy the gold. Why do we need all these currencies? Oh yeah to help distort how much your actually paying. 25 or 30 for a mount? Id gladly pay you money for cool skins and cosmetics that are more reasonably priced. Oh… yeah well we actually need some skins people want in the shop first.
Oh mb, I didn’t really read the description properly. Was thinking that number was too insane to be true tbh.