Sir, this is a video game.
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Look, you’re right that reducing the appeal of RMT is a super strong way to go. But the metaphor is likely to get you a lot of weird responses here.
I find the parallel he drew is quite sufficient. It depicts the powerful alure of drugs/gold and the desperate civilians who need to consume it/RMT.
Because though, yes, this is a game, behind it are real people who influence the game.
The ultimately solution is once again: Don’t RMT. Stop fueling the very thing that is ruining the game and feeding your pocket.
The difference between real life and Lost Ark is SmileGate is an omnipotent god in Lost Ark and can track anything and everything they want to and stop the bots if they really wanted to. The reality is it isn’t profitable for them to spend the resources needed to actually stop the bots while not making significant changes to the game. If they made significant changes to the game it would make it literally impossible to be profitable as a bot but then the game would not be what made it popular in the first place.
We need game companies and gamers to agree to make some sacrifice to ensure it is impossible to cheat in video games in the first place. Whether that is registering our Social numbers with some central anti-cheating global center to be able to play video games or something else that is the only way to stop it and have a F2P video game with free trading of all items.
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Why would anyone willingly give that info out? With the amount of breaches that happen it would only be a matter of time before players had their identities stolen. I’m not going to risk that just to play a game.
They do in Korea and everyone there doesn’t have their crap stolen.
It is the only proven way to effectively prevent cheating in video games. Many very smart people have spent god knows how many hours trying to stop cheaters for decades now. Nothing works. This is currently the only known way.
If you think breaches don’t happen in South Korea then I have ocean front property in Arizona to sell you. How the heck do you think people outside of SK play online games on Korean servers? They buy KSSN from shady people.
i nvr read so much BS in my life
well been to reddit
up there
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What is your point? There are not many bots on the Korean server. This is a fact. the KSSN system is stopping the bots.
A system like Korean SSN would not work in other regions, due to how privacy and other applicable laws work from country to country. Sad reality, it will never happen here.
It’s always going to an uphill battle, unless they do severe punishment against the whales that RMT (which I also doubt will ever happen)
lol. At least Nixon, he made a statement and he did something about it, but you look at AGS, they made a statement, but they didn’t do anything about it, so they just pretended to make a statement
Google is your friend: https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20110803000621
This is from 2011 but I can guarantee this crap is still happening.
Should have seen the amount of people who disagrees with people simply because it is just a video game or you are entitled. EX: if you didnt pay for it, you dont get to complain about it like are you serious bro.
Sir, this is a Wendys
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The reason it failed is the people on the inside were fighting on the side of drugs. It was corrupt at the top, but you get sold this story about how prohibition doesn’t work by the people who defeated prohibition in order to harm you. a Lost Ark analogy would be to suggest that AGS is compromised and cooperating with the botters to profit off of selling Smilegate’s currency that their deal was to remit.
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Oh my god
The perfect thread for this
The stars aligned
Say it with me
Addiction is a hell of a drug
Or increase the amount of gold that can be earned by players in the game. that way players can be less reliant on RMT
Somewhat simple solution to this. AGS works with the RMTers and tax them. They sell the gold, AGS gets to control their access. Allow bot use only during off hours. Limit the amount of gold they can sell. That keeps inflation in check, we don’t have to see bots all day, and some poor people in third world countries can make some money. Win, win, win.
“Sir this is a football game why are some players kneeling? There’s a time and a place.”
That you?
Solution is to legalize drugs.