If you want to fix the game and make players happy, here’s an easy one.
Restrict all trading/AH/mail unless you spend $15 on a monthly pack of goods.
This pack of goods will be a great deal, including crystaline aura, gold and mats, and a rotating cosmetic like a skin or some emotes.
You can even do what Diablo does and put a big sticker on it saying “500% value” or whatever.
Most everyone still playing the game spends money here and there, so it will affect very few people negatively. And if you’re die hard F2P you’re already choosing to play the game at an impossible difficulty, so you like challenges.
But these things you suggest restricting are essential to the game. How can you make gold without selling things? And how can you complete things like Kalthertz daily without a mail system?
I’m not sure you grasp how much of a plague these bots are and why they continue to infest our game, they make a LOT of money every single day, which prompts bot farms to make more and more.
15 dollars is nothing for them, so forcing the playerbase at large to pay every month so they can trade and use the AH is a terrible idea. Your head is in the right place though
If you think they are a plague, then make them spend tens of millions of dollars if they want to continue being a plague.
I don’t think you’re grasping any of this. Each individual bot can only make like 1,000-2,000 gold a week. That’s a few bucks. Then many of them get banned eventually.
They cannot each make up for a $15 cost.
And if they do make up for it, they’re just beginning to be profitable at that point. So it’s a month or two before each bot even starts making profit
The only alternative to you being an RMTer is you being an idiot so i was actually being nice.
You can’t argue that $15 a bot wouldn’t kill the botting problem, but you’re trying really hard. Why? Why would you say “this wouldn’t fix the bots” when it obviously would. They do not have tens of millions of dollars to gamble on keeping hundreds of thousands of bots alive in this game
