You’re failing to understand I have never said anything about anything being a race, that’s your assumption. People with the most minimal of time who play the game casually and slow still are outpacing you.
You’re literally talking about assumptions and judgements yet you’re being that little hypocrite yourself lol that’s pretty pathetic and tells me all I need to know about you.
Then youre just blind or purposely avoiding it.
WoW tradechat is dogwater.
FFXIV chat is awful.
BnS, bad.
Nw, bad.
Stop acting like its just this game xD, its the genre.
Let them try to combat it however they can.
But we already know chat restriction for area to level 30 is not combatting it. Its just something to make it look like they tried when we all know it does not stop them or hinder them for long. Like you said its in every damn game, personally I just block them at most. Usually I ignore it because I know nothing is going to happen to them that matters.
I dont have a guild and know 1 person who plays so while I may use area chat very little, I still have some use for it.
It definitely does combat it? How would it not?
It takes atleast some amount of playtime to get to level 30, these bots only care about their time. If they have to spend the time to get lvl 30, then get banned and repeat. It loses them more time and cuts into their “profits” quite a bit.
Im all for the restrictions. Keep it up AGS, good to see SOMETHING being attempted.
There was no assumption, and I said nothing about race. You make a blanket statement about a nationality right after you did so with this gaming community.
Not sure where I was being hypocritical, simply calling out your ignorance. That was I needed to know about you, stranger.
I never saw the same frequency in WoW trade, albeit the game is far more mature and the player base was constant, opposed to this influx during LA’s launch.
I didn’t play enough FFXIV to make a judgement there. SWTOR didn’t suffer from the same level of spam, and GW2 certainly does not.
Edit: Bear in mind that I’m not singling out LA at all. In fact, it’s what I expected during the launch phase. I am simply criticizing the initial response to it.
Level 30 is too much, have many activities that people use the chat to communicate. It is an MMO, the point is the social part, and chat is a big part of it.
Bots are bots, they will just bot to level 30 and spam.
I disagree.
I dont think i used area chat for absolutely anything before i got my boat. Now i MIGHT use it while auto-sailing, even that is very rare lol.
I like the change 
SWTOR and GW2 1000000% did.
People suffer from the recency bias way too hardcore with stuff like this. This is a fact.
Except that’s just not true. A few field bosses and one barricade does not equate to “many activities”. The majority of Lost Ark’s content opens/begins at Level 50, that is a simple fact of the game because that it is how the game was designed.
It has it moments but it isn’t nearly as bad as Lost Ark’s constant spam.
For the most part FFXIV is probably the one MMO that is combatting against RMT/bots correctly as they post near weekly updates about said actions and have active GMs. They also have had more time and directed real resources to develop the tools needed.
Its slows them down and in the end is meaningless. People here say level 30 takes 5 hours. Spammers are going to spend the time so it combats nothing and causes a minor slow down at best. In the meantime it does cause lower level players issues. But since you never used area chat we should just pretend no one does while also pretending this actually stops bots and spammers. OK
Slowing down the creation isn’t meaningless, it gives AGS’ support team the time they need to handle the banning and removal.
What’s the better scenario?
A: Bot accounts that can be created and spam chat instantly
B: Bot accounts that have to level to X before spamming
Im aware that everyone that plays FFXIV is in unending trance about the game lmao. I agree that theyre doing good stuff, YoshiP cares about the game more than any dev i know of.
That Game still has had the same issues that were talking about here in the past. Good to see that FFXIV has been combating this SINCE THE BEGINNING, and still has to try new ways YEARS into the life of the game. Lost Ark will never be able to stop trying to find ways to combat things like this. That is the life of an MMO.
5 hours gives them time? They are running bot trains to level as we type. Again this does nothing in the long term. Its a placebo so people can pretend it has any effect.
Its a good attempt for them to take once you have ONE CHARACTER PAST 30. You will never experience this on other characters. Youre complaining when i dont think you even understand what youre complaining about.
I understand what I am talking about and the words I use quite well. Thank you for your concern over my understanding level. Have a day
it sucks for new players but its a good solution
How is it a good solution? Solution means the problem is solved. Did this actually solve anything? NO.
Idk about all that m8