Here, bump this and continue to remind them that people think it’s kinda stupid that all these items are not roster bound, doing nothing but causing player frustration.
As for Bots. A F2P download with no barrier to entry in creating accounts with a game play style that could not be more bot friendly if you tried. Yeah, we’re gonna have bots.
I don’t think anyone truely believe they can solve the bots issue once and for all. As sad as it may sound, there will always be bots yes. But not at this level where it is completely out of control causing havocs on servers and for real players ?
The game is unplayable because people can’t even log in…
Yeah, it looks like the botters are trying to make some statement, maybe there was some failed bot banwave?
I don’t know this for sure but it seems the opposite.
When this April patch dropped AGS I believe wiped out a whole lot of bots with it.
Bots got angry, and saw this new event that rewards gold ? a fantastic opportunity to strike back in full force…
Not defending AGS and SGR which work together for this game.
But if you got the permanent “Not wrong” solution, start marketing it my guy. Several companies will pay you big time for a permanent solution against bots!
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.
How could they honestly believe people would not want roster bound mats from the get go? How? Serously.
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.
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.
Dude? 8 million gold for 20 Canadian bucks?
